Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1893-02-16

In speech or works, by brush or pen,
Shall glorify nor gods nor men.
Frank Chase.
ETHICS wITHOUTDRoss.
Life as it is: Its Surface and Under Cur
rents Observed Here and There as we
Journey On.
JUST TALK FOR SUNDAY REFLECTION
The witness bearing of the
Christian is the testifying against
all that is false, all that is wrong
and all that is hateful in men. To
minimize that testimony into an
effort to pursuade men to join a
visible church is sometimes to
make a farce of it. It is rather as
the Apostle Paul has declared it to
US to be: ''to witness ever for what
soever things are pure, whatsoever
things are true, whatsoever things
are lovely, whatsoever things are OF
good report and to testify to men
that it shall surely be we'll with
the man who loves these things
and that does these things, and
that it surely will be i'll with the
man that sees these things, but
turns away from them.
The heather poet Persius has
left US in the beautiful line a feara
ful warning against these who "see
virtue and turning from her waste
away"
God must give Us the seed, the
raio. the sunshine and the harvest, ,
but it is for US to supply the tiilage
which shall prepare the ground to
be the fruitful REF ting place of the
seed. The work that the farmer
does upon the bosom of mother
earth it is for the Christian huse
bandman to do in the bosom of
human hearts and consciences. To
break up the faliow ground; to
gather off the stones; TO weed out
the thorns and briars, and to make
soft the land, that it may welcome
the seed. This he does by nnder-
mining prejudice, proclaiming
truth, exemplitying love, faith and
kindred graces. The plow
with which he does this
is the truth; the s'sword of the
Spirit" as it is called in Scripture:
a weapon keen and sharp, finely
tempered for the purpose for which
God has ordained it; and cne sure
to accomplish the fu lness of His
purposes.
And now theDeLesseps and E,ffsl
inParis are sentenced co prison for
fraud in securing public moneys
The papers daily are, full of in.
stances of such frauds in high
places Of trust. We may be ms
taken-and we hope we are, but it
does seem that there is marked de
cline and decay of public and
private virtue in our day,
l. is certainly true that the meI OF
tc-day are not so earnest in duty,
SO honest, conscientious, and sin
cere in their lives, as were the men
of yore. The men of this genera
ton, and OF the present day, ap
pear to be wholly absorbed in
political and other selfi,h schemes
Io' king to reward either in worldly
wealth or in the triumph of per-
ronal am bition. All their efforts
and aspirations are of "lhe earth
earthly" There must be a re,
naissance Of the moral and religious
virtues, or the material advances
ment of which we boast, will be-
come at length the parent of anta~
gonlsms SO fierce and ruthless that
"5he very liberty we SO highly
prize" will perish in their fury.
GA young girl on her enterance
into society" is confronted with
many dangers, Heretofore she
was merely IN the boat, which she
is now obliged to steer. Many
things are new to her, Her curl
osity is keen and her power of ems
joyment as boundless as her mex.
perience. She is as fragrant with
innocence as the first peach bios.
som which bursts it's cell to kiss the
breath of Spring. She is as frail
as the ladysslipper sheltered at the
foot Of the dogswood or under the
gaudy sprays Of the luxuriant
honeysuckle, that we remember sc
fondly from our boyhood ram b!es
in the woods ON the farm. She ii
as timid -asthe -asbutus cling ing te
iutting roots of the rustic oak
afraid 20 trust its sweetness to the
contact of the careless passerby,
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