Orange County observer. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1880-1918, 1892-04-16

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they snali come up IN the resurrection OF the
Just whichever way they arc buried. How
inapv there are chiefly anxious that d min
lister OF the Gospel shall come in the line OF
apostolic succession. not caring SO much
whether he comes from Apostle Paul OIL
Apostle Judas. They have g way O, meat
uring a gnat until it is larger than a canal
Again, my subject photographs ell those |
who are abhorrent OF small sins while they |
are reckless in regard to magnificent thefts.
You viii find many a merchant. who while
he Is 50 careful that he would not take a yard
0. Cloth or a spool OF cotton from tue counter
without paying for it. and VINO II a bank
cashier should make a mistake and seni in a
roll Of bills five dollars too much would dis
patch a messenger in not haste to return thu
-urp Us, Yet WAC Will go into a stock company
in which after awhile he gets control OF the
stock and te,n Eaters the stock aud makes
slo0, Co appear like 100000. He stole only
800, 900 by the operation. Many OF the men
OF fortune male their wealth Ia that way.
One OF those men engaged 10 such upright
cons acts, that evening. the evening OF the
very day when he watered the stock, Will
find a wharf rat stealing an evening newspa-
per from rne basement doorway, and will go
et. aid catch the urchiu bv the collar and
twist the collar SO tightly the poor fellow
| cannot say that it was thirst for knowledge
that led him to the dishonest act. but grip =
the collar tighter and tighter, saying: "I
have been looking for you q long while. You
ri ~u f>t.r ms. fr- >N@,
you, You miserable wretch~ And then
the old stock gambler. with q voice they can
hear three blocks, will cry out, Police, po-
lice
mat same. man, the evening OF the day on
which be watered tue stock. will kneel with
his family in>prayer aud thank God for the
prosperity OF the day, then kiss his children
good night with an air which seems to say.
"lhope You will ell grow UP to be as gooI
as your father" Prisons for sins insectlie
III si7A but palaces for cranes dromedarian.
No mefcy for sins animalcule in proportion,
but great .eniency for InastOIOn iniouitv.
1t Is time tuat we learn In America that
SID is not e1cu5able IN proportion as it de-
ciares large dividends and has outriders in
equlpage. Many a man is riding to perdi-
ton position ahead and lacAey behind. To
steal q dollar is a gnat, to steal many thou.
sands Of dollars is a camel. There is many a
fruit dealer who would not consent to steal
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but who would not scruple to depress the
fruit market: and as long as | can remember
we have heard every summer tue peach crop
Of Maryland is a failure, and by the time tie
crop comes in the misrepresentation makes a
difference of millions of dollars. A man
who would not steal one peach basket steals
fifty thousand peach baskets.
ANY summer go Gown into tue Mercantile
library, IN the reading rooms, and see the
newspaper reports of the crops from all paris
OF the country, and their phraseology is very
much the same, and the same men wrote
them, methodlcallv and UNANIMOUSLY carry
ing out the huge lying about the grain crop
from year to year and for a score of wears
After a while there Is d corner in the
wheat market, and men who had a contempt
for a petty theft viii burglariza the wheat
bin OF a nation and commit larceny upon the
American corncr4b. And men will sit il
churches aud in reformatory institutions try
ing to strain out the small gnats of scoundrel
ism, while in their grain elevators and il
their storehouses they are fatteniug huge
cameis which they expect after awhile t.
swallow. Society has to be entirely recon
structed on this subject. We are to find
that a sin is inexcusabie in proportion as it
is great.
l know in our time the tendency is to
charge religious frauds upon good mon
They say, 'Oh, what a class of frauds You
have in the Church OF God in this day. and
when an elder of a church or a deacon or {
minister of the Gospel or a superintendent
Of a Sabbath school turns out a defaultel
what display heads there are in many OF tn
hswspaPersIgreat primer type; i've linz
zeal Scoundrelism,' Religion at a Dis
count" Shame on the Churches" while
there are a thousand scoundrels outside tn
church to where there is one inside tn,
church, and the misbehavior Of those WIN
never sea the inside OF a church is 50 great i
is enough to tempt a man to become a Chris
tan to get out Of their company. -
But in all circles, religious AMI jrreligious
the tendency Is to excuse stu IN proportio
as it is mammoth. Even John Milton in hi
paradise Lost wnlIe he condemns Satan
gives such a grand description of him 70
have hard work to suppress your admire
ton. Oh, this straining out of small sir
like gnats, and this gulpin5 down great in
EQUITIES like came!s.
This subject does not give the picture Q
Of one or two persons, but is q gallery i
which thousands OF people may see thei
likenesseS. For instance, all these Poop
who, while they would not rob their neigh
Dor Of a farthing, appropriate the none
and the treasure of the public. A man has
house to sell, and he tells his customer it
worth $50, 900. Next day the assessor com
around and the owner sa vs. it is worth 80
600. The Government of the United Stat.
took OF the tax from personal incom
among other reasons because 50 few Peep
would tell the truth, an1 many a man wit
t an income Of hundreis of dollar, a day ma;
= statements which seemed to imply Ne wa
| about to be handed over to the over seer q
!; the poor. =
Careful to pay their passage from Livel
g pool to New YORK, yet smuggling i'll the
j Saratoga trunk ten silk dre>ses\ from Par
T and a half dozen watches IRON Genev
: Switzerland. telling the custom house Off
:. on the wharf, There i nothing in til
. trunk but wearing apparel" and putting
e i've dollar gold piece in his hand to punct
/ ate tho statement.
e Described ia the text are all those who q
& particular never to treak the law OF gral
mar, and who want all their language
elegant specimen OF synta1. stralning out
ne the Inaccuracies of speech wtth q fine sic
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II conversation 60 SANDER apt ihnuendo a
as profanity an fat>-hGNI Frnan "A xht
n caravan Of carneis. when they might bett
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le shock their intellectual taste. and better |
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b, every noun for lis government, and eve,
y proposition lose its WAY in the sentence, 8,
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