News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1897-10-27

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iieyes He will tell you that an Arminial
believes that man can save himself. An
Arminian relieves no such thing. 1t is
hardly worth your while to ask ar ex-
treme Arminian what a Calvinist believes.
He will tell you that a Calvinist believes
that God made some men just to damn
them, A Calvinist believes no such thing.
1t is hardly worth your while to ask
Pedo-Baptist what a Baptist believes He
will tell you Baptist believes that i'm
mersion is necessary for salvation. A Bap-
fist does not believe any such thing 1t
is hardly worth your while to ask a man
who very much hates Presbyterians what
a Presbyterian believes. He will tell you
that a Presbyterian believes that there are
infants in hell a span long, and that very
phraseology has come down from genera
ton to generation in the Christian church.
There never was a Presbyterian who be-
lieved that. "Oh," you say, Il heard
some Presbyterian minister 20 years ago
say so You did not. There never was
a man who believed that There never
will be man who will believe that And
yet from boyhood have heard that par
ticular SANDER against Christian church
going down through the community
Then, how often it is that there are mis-
representations on the part of individual
churches in regard to other churches, espe
cially if church comes to great prosper
ity. AS long as church is in poverty, and
the singing is poor, and all the surround
ings are decrepit and the congregation
are so hardly bestead in life that their
pastor goes with elbows out, then there
will always be Christian people in churches
who say, What pity; what pity" But
let the day of prosperity come to Chris
tian church and let the music be triumph
ant, and let there be vast assemblages, and
then there will be even ministers of the
gospel critical and denunciatory and full
of Misrepresentation and Justification, Civ
ing the impression to the outside world
that they do not like the corn because it is
not ground in their mill. Oh, my friends,
let us in all departments of life stand back
from deception
But some one says, THE deception that
practice is so small that it doesn t amount
to anything. All, my friends, it does
amount to great deal You say, when
l deceive, it is only about a case of needles
or a box of buttons or a row of pins. !"
But the article may be so small you can
put it in your vest pocket, but the sin is
as big as the pyramids, and the echo of
your dishonor will reverberate through
the mountains of eternity. There is no
such thing as a small sin They are all
vast and stupendous, because they will all
have to come under inspection in the day
of Judgment. You may boast yourself of
having made fine bargain-a sharp bar
gain. You may carry out what the Bible
says in regard to that man who went in
to make a purchase and deprecated the
value of the goods and then after he had
got away boosted of the splendid bargain
he had made. 1T is naught it is naught,
saith the buyer, but when he is gone his
way then he bOasteth. 1t may seem to
the world a sharp bargain, but the record
ing angel wrote down in the ponderous
tones of eternity, MIR. So-andso, doing
business on Pennsylvania avenue or Broad
way or Chestnut street or State street, told
one lie "
Speak the Truth.
May God extirpate from society all the
ecclesiastical lies, and all the social lies,
and all the mechanical lies, and all the
commercial lies, and all the agricultural
lies, and make every man to speak the
truth of his neighbor. My friends, let us
make our life correspond to what we are.
Let us Danish all deception from our be-
havior Let us remember that the time
comes when God will demonstrate before
an assembled universe just what we are
The secret will come out. We may hide it
while we live, but we cannot hide it when
we die To many life is masquerade
ball AS at such entertainment gentlemen
and ladies appear in garb of kings OF
queens or mountain bandits or clowns and
then at the close of the dance put off their
disguise, so many all through life are in
mask. The masquerade ball goes on, and
! gemmed hand clasps gemmed hand and
dancing feet respond to dancing feet, and
| cleaning brow bends to cleaning brow,
and the masquerade ball goes bravely on
But after awhile languor comes and blurs
the sight Lights lower Floor hollow
| with sepulchral echo Music saddens into
a wall Lights lower Now the masquer
ade is hardly seen The fragrance is ex
changed for the sckening odor of garland,
that have lain long while in the damp O
sepulchers Lights lower Mists fill The
room The scarf drops from the shoulder
of beauty, a shroud Lights lower TORI
leaves and withered garlands now hardly
cover up the ulcered feet Stencil Of lanI
wicks almost qucnchod Choking damp
ness Chilliness Feet still Hands tOl.cd
Eyes shut Voice huShed Lights OUT