Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1897-11-03
WELL-MATCHED PAIR.
a Moral Drawn From the Story oe
Ananias and Sapphira.
Hho Whitcst Lie Ever Told Declared n, "a.
slack A. Perdition - FaIsel,ood. DO
no. Depend Solely ON the Tonsue-A
movement, Manner,
MAY Serve the Purpose.

DIR. Talmages text sundav was At
', lilo "A certain nan named Anan.
'as, with Sapphira, his wife. sold a
possession. etc"
Well matched pair, alike in ambi-
tion and IN falsehood. Ananias and
Sapphira They wanted a.reputation
10. great oenctcence. and they sold
their property pretending to put
the entire proceeds in the charity
fund, while they put much of il in
their own pocket. There was no neces
sity that they gave all their property
away, but they wanted the reputation
OF so doing. Ananias first lied about
~ and dropped down dead. Then
Sapphira lied about it, and She drsbp
ped dead. The two fatalities waru6py
To al ages of sacrificing the trutlx
There are thousands OF ways Al tell
ing lac. y mans whoIc. life p<,y he a
faisehood and yet flor M14 his lips
may he faisify once. /Therc is way Of
I erl n iaisenood s. look, by manner,
who are guilty of dii ,honestv of specch
anTthen afterwar,i ts,y ..,nav bc oou.
17ss it white lie. lbe1 no lie j. that
blor. The whitckt H. ever told ,vas 90
Jack as perditiok Thcre mo -, "1o a.
''isen TO dishopy h. of spcecb that tbev
WITH NTH some some is an acquired sin ~ and
Tbers it is a natural infrmity.
/. nj. e those whom you will recog-
80. born liars Their whole life.
Idle To grave, is filed up with
speech. Misrepresentation and
rication are rs natural To them as
\fantile diseases, and are "A sort Of
Group or spiritual scarlatina
ZEN there are those who in after
Of
rs evil and they 60 from deception to
reception. and from class to class, until
they are regularly graduated liars. At
times the air in our cities is filled with
faisehood, and lies cluster around the
mechanics hammer blossom on the
merchants yardsticll and sonnet Times
sat in the door of churches. They are
called by some fabrication and they
arc called by some. fiction. You might
call them subterfuge, deceit or ro-
nance, or fable or MISREPRESENTATION.
or delusion, but as l know nothing to
be gained by covering upa God-defying
sin with q photographers blanket. /
shall call them in plainest vernacular.
lies. They may be divided into apri-
cultural, commercial mechanical So
eial and ecclesiastical
First of all | speak of agricultural
falsehoods. There il something i'm the
presence of natural objects that has n
tendency to make one pure. The trees
never issue false stock. The wheat
- fields are always honest. Rye and oats
never move out in the night not pay
ing for the place they occupy. Corn
shucks never make false assignment
Mountain brooks are always current
The gold of the wheat fields i never
counterfeit But while the tendency of
agricultural life Is to make one honest
honesty l. not the characteristic of all
VINO come To- the city markets
from the country districts
You hear the crcaking Of
the dishonest farm wagon in almost
every street of our great cties-a farm
wagon in which there is not one honest
spoke or one truthful rivet, from tongue
10 tail board. Again and again has do
nestle economy in our great cities
foundered on the farmers Grl,in
When New York and Washington sit
down and weep over their sins let
Westchcster county and the nciyhbor-
hoods around this capital 81: down and
weep over theirs.
The tendency in all rural districts is
TO suppose that sins and tranSgressions
cluster in our great cities: but citizens
and merchants long ago learned
that u Is not safe TO calcu-
late from the character OF the apples
on the top of the farmers barrel what
is the character of the APPLES all the
way down toward the bottom Many
% our citizens and merchants bnv,.
LEARNED that it is always safe To see the
l. farmer measure the barrel OF bccts
~ MIX cans are not always honest
There are those who. in country
y LIE, Seem to think they have
right 10 ovcrreach grain deal
ers and merchants of all styles
They think it is more honorable
raise corn than 20 deal i'm corn. The
peer sometimes practically saws to
erchant: "Gou get your money
bow. Does he get it easily?
While thefarner sleeps, and he may go
TO sleep conscious Of the fact that hi,
corn and rye arc all the time progress
ing and adding TO his fortune or his
live lihOod. the merchant trie, 10 sleep
while conscious Of the fact that at that
moment the ship may bc driving on
the rock or a wave sweeping over the
hurricane deck spelling his goods or
the spectators may be- plotting
monetary revolution. or the burglars
may be at that moment al his money
safe, or the fire may have kindlcd on
the very block where his store stands,
basy is it, let those who get their
living in the quiet farm and barn take
the place Of one 81 our city merchants
and sec whether DO Is so easy. % +,
hard enough 30 hIvc the hands bIf.t-
cred With outdoor work. but it f, hard
er with mental anVicties 90 have the
brain consumed. God help tine mer-
chants. And do not let tho-c who live
30 country life come 20 the conclusion
that all the disbouestics belong 70 city
life.
pass ON 60 consider commercial
lies There are those who apofo,dle
for dcviations FROM the right and for
practical deception by saying it Is com
rucrcial custom In other words "a
lie by multiplication become virtue.
There are large fortunes gathered in
which there e. not one drop Of the
sweat ~ unrequited toll. and not one
Spark ~ bad temper flashes from the
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