Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1892-03-28
not steal one peach basket steals fifty
thousand peach baskets

camille library in the reading rooms,
and see the newspaper reports of the
crops from all parts of the country, and
their phraseology is very much the same,
and the same men wrote them, method
ically and UNANIMOUSLY carrying out the
huge lying about the grain crop from
year to year and for a score of years.
After awhile there is q corner" in the
wheat market, and men who had q con-
tempt for q petty theft will burglarize
The wheat bin of q nation and commit
larceny upon the American corncrib.
All llCl vill sit in churches and in re-
for1-.,s.ol'.- Institutions trying to strain
out the snail gnats Of scoundrelism,
while in their grain elevators and in
their stolehovses they are fattening huge
ca1uel3 v,,2ich they expect after awhile
to sw;.l,o-.. Society has to be entirely
reconstructed on this subject. We are
to find that sin is inexcusable in pro-
portion as it i reat.
THE WORLDS SHEER AT A FALLEN CHRIS
know in our time the tendency is to
charge religious frauds upon good men.
They say, ooh, what a class of frauds
you have in the church of God in this
day." and when an elder of church. or
a deacon, or a minister of the Gospel, or
a superintendent of Sabbath school
turns out defaulter, what display heads
there are in many of the newspapers.
Great primer type. Five line plea.
Another Saint Absconded," Clerical
Scoundrelisn,' Religion at a Dis
count" ''Shame on the Churches" while
there are thousand scoundrels outside
the church to where there is one in
side the church, and the misbehaviOr of
those who never see the inside of a
church is so great it is enough to tempt
a man to become Christian to get out
of their company.
But in all circles, religious and ire
igious, the tendency is to excuse sin in
proportion as it is mammoth. Even
John Milton in his Paradise Lost"
while he condemns satan, gives such
grand description of him you have hard
work to suppress your admiration. Oh,
this straining out of small sins like
gnats, and this gulping down of great
iniquities like camels.
This subject does not give the picture
of one or two persons, but Is gallery
in which thousands of people may see
their likenesses. For instance, all those
people who, while they would not rob
their neighbor of farthing, appropriate
the money and the treasure of the pub
lie. A man has a house to sell, and he
tells his customer it is worth 500, 900.
Next day the assessor comes around and
the owner says it is worth $4,000. The
government of the United States took
off the tax from personal income, among
other reasons, because so few people
would tell the truth, and many a man
with an income of hundreds of dollars
day made statements which seemed to
imply he was about to be handed over
to the overseer of the poor.
Careful to pay their passage from
Liverpool to New York, yet smuggling
in their Saratoga trunk ten silk dresses
from Paris and half dozen watches
from Geneva, Switzerland, telling the
custom house officer on the wharf,
''There is nothing in that trunk but
wearing apparel and putting a five
dollar gold piece in his hand to punctu-
ate the statement.
Described in the text are all those who
are particular never to break the law
of grammar and who want all their
tax, straining out all the inaccuracies of
speech with a fine sieve of literary criti-
cism, while through their conversation
go SANDER and innuendo and profanity
and falsehood larger than whole cara
van of camels, when they might better
fracture every law of the language and
shock their intellectual taste, and better
let every verb seek in vain for its NOM
NATIVE and every noun for its govern
ment, and every proposition lose its way
in the sentence and adjectives and par
ticiples and pronouns get into grand
riot worthy of the Fourth ward on cleo
ton day, than to commit a moral mac
curacy. Better swallow thousand
gnats than one camel.
THE CENSORIOUS HYPOCRITE.
Such persons are also described in the
text who are very much alarmed about
the small faults of others, and have no
alarm about their own great transgres-
sions. There are in every community
and in every church watchdogs who
feel called upon to keep their eyes on
others and growl. They are full Of sus-
picions They wonder if that man is not
dishonest if that man is not unclean, if
there is not something wrong about the
other man. They are always the first to
hear of anything wrong. Vultures are
always the first to smell carrion. They
are self appointed detectives. 1 lay this
down as rule without any exception,
that those people who have the most
faults themselves are most merciless in
their watching of others. From scalp
of head to sole of foot they are full of
jealousies and hypercriticisms.
They spend their life in hunting for
muskrats and mud turtles instead of
hunting for Rocky mountain eagles, al
ways for something mean instead of
something grand They look at their