Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1892-04-01
MILFORb DEL, FRIDAY APRIL l, 1892

every law Of the language and shock then
intellectual taste, aud better let every verb
seek in vain FOR its n0nlinative, and every
noun for its government, and every prepo-
sition lose its way in the sentence, and ad.
5ectives and participles and pronouns get
into -M=end riot worthy of the Fourth
ward on election day, than to commit
moral inaccuracy. Better swallow thou
sand gnRts than one Gamer.
THE PETTY FAULT FINDERS
Such persons are also described N the
text who are very much alarmed abo6S
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 ofhers and
growl They are full of suspicious. They
wonder if that man is not dishonest, il that
man is not unclean, if there is not something
wrong about the other man. They are al
ways the first to hear of anything wrong.
Vultures are always the first to smell car
rion. They are self appointed detectives.
/ lay this down as a rule without any eX.
ception-thGt 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 ieal
ousies and hypercriticisms.
They spend their life in hunting fol
muskrats and mud turtles instead Of hunt
ing for Rocky mountain eagles; always fol
something mean instead of something
grand. They look at their neighbors' i'm
projections through a microscope, and look
at their own imperfectiOns through tcle-
scope upside down. Twenty faults OF then
own do not hurt them half so muchas one
ole sffrIta rsac
imperfections are like gnats, and they
strain them out; their own imperfections
are like camels, and they swallow them.
But lest any might think they escape
the scrutiny of the text, have to tell yoI
that we all come under the divine satiS.
when we make the questions Of time more
prominent than the questions Of eternity
Come now, let US al go into the comics
sional. Are not all tempted to make the
question, Where shall live nowy greater
than the question, Where shall live for
everg How shall get more dollars herct
greater than the question, How shall lay
up treasures in heaveng the question, How
shall pay my debts to man? greater than
the question, How shall meet my Obliga
lions to God? the question, How shall ]
gain the world? greater than the question,
What il l lose my sOulg the question, Why
did God let sin come into the world? greater
than the question, How shall I get it ex
tirpated from my nature? the question,
What shall do with the twenty or forty
or seventy years of my sublunar existeneeS
greater that the question, What shall do
with the millions Of cycles Of my POSTER
restrial existence? Time, how small it Isl
Eternity, how vast it III The former moro
insignificant in comparison with the latter
than gnat is insignificant when com
pared with camel. We dodged the text.
We said, "That doesn't mean me, and that
doesn't meau me-" and with n ruinous be
nevolence we are giving the whole sermon
away.
But let us all surrender to the charge.
What an ado about things here. What
poor preparation for great eternity. As
though minnow were larger than behe
moth, as though a swallow took wider cir
cult than an albatross, as though nettlo
were taller than a Lebanon cedar, as
though gnat were greater than camel,
as though minute were longer than a
century, as though time were higher
deeper broader than eternity, SO the
text which flashed with lightning Of wit
as Christ uttered it, is followed by the
crashing thunders of awful catastrophe &c
those who make the questions of time
greater than the questions Of the future,
the onconing, Overshadowing future. y
Eternity Eternity! Eternity