The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1897-10-28

grinding against Iceberg. You 0us(
not laugh outright That 10 vulgar.
You must smile You must not dash
quickly across the room. That 10 vul-
gar. You must glide. Much of soci-
ETY. u round Of bows and grins and
Erimaces and obs and abs and he. he's
and simperinss and namby pambyism.
whole world Of which is not worth
one good honest round of laughter. So
:iety Is become 30 contorted and de.
formed in this respect that a mountain
cabin where the rustics gather at q
quilting or an apple pairing has In II
more good cheer than all the frsscoed
refrigerators OF the metropolis.
! pass on to speak Of ecclesiastical
lies. those which are told for the ad.
vancement or retarding Of . church or
'ect. II is hardly worth your while to
ask an extreme Calvanist what an Ar
minisn believes. He will tell you that
an Arminian believes that man can
save himself An Arminian believes
20 such thing. II Is hardly worth
your while to ask an extreme Armini-
an what a Calvanist believes. He will
tell you that a Calvanist believes that
Cod made some men Just to damn
them. A Calvanist believes no such
thing. It Is hardly worth your while
10 ask Pedo- Baptist what A Baptist
believes He will tell you that Bap-
list believes that immersion is neces.
'ary for salvation. A Baptist does not
believe any such thing. It 10 hardly
worth your while to ask man who
very much hates Presbyterians what
Presbyterian believes. He will tell
you that a Presbyterian believes that
there are infants In hell a span long,
and that very phraseology comes down
from generation TO generation in the
Christian church. There never was
Presbyterian who believed that. oh
you say, x heard some Presbyterian
minister 20 years ago say so" You
iid not. There never was a man who
believed that. There never will be a
man who will believe that. And yet
from boyhood have heard that par
slcular slander against Christian
,hurch going down through the com.
munity.
Then. how often IL ls that there ar.
Misrepresentation on the part OF in
iividual churches in reaard TO other
churches, especially IL a church comes
20 great prosperity. As long as
church is in poverty and the singing
Is poor. and all the surroundings are
iecrepit, and the congregation are so
hardly bestead in life that their pastor
goes with elbows out, then there will
always be Christian people In church.
IS who say, What a pity; what q
pity" But let the day OF prosperity
come to Christian church and let tho
music be triumphant, and let there be
vast assemblages, and then there will
De even ministers OF the gospel criti.
:al and denunciatory and full Of mis-
representation and Justification, CIV
ing the impression TO the outside world
hat they do not like the corn because
Il Is not ground in their mill. oh, my
friends, let Us in all departments OF
life stand back from deception.
But some one Ays, The deception
that I practice Is so small that Il
doesn't amount to anything" All. my
friends, II does amount 70 a great deal.
You say, When I deceive, It Is only
about a case Of needles or box Of
buttons or row Of pins" But ths
article may be so small you can put il
IN your vest pocket, but the sin Is as
big as the pyramids, and the echo Of
your dlshonor will reverberate through
The mountains Of eternity There IS
40 such thing as small sin. They
are all vast and stupendous. because
hey will all have 20 come under in
spection in the day Of judgment You
may boast yourself OF having made
ine bargain--a sharp bargain. You
may carry out what the Bible says n
regard 70 that man who vent in 20
make a purchase and deprecated the
value Of the goods. and then after he
mad got away boasted of the splendid
bargain he had made. 1T is laught.
/ Is laught. saith the buyer. but when
ne is gone his way then he boasteth.
II may seem TO the world a sharp bar.
gain. but the recording angel wrote
iown in the ponderous tones OF ster-
lity, Mr.. So-apd-so. doing business on
avenue or Broadway or
Chestnut street or State street, told
)ne lie
May God extirpate from society all
he ecclesiastical lies. and all the So
,ial lies. and all the mechanical lies.
md all the commercial lies. and all
he agricultural lies. and make every
nan to speak the truth OF his neigh
Dor. Ny friends. let US make our life
correspond TO what ve are. Let 10
Danish all deception from our behav-
or. Let US remember that the time
,omes when God will demonstrate be-
ore an assembled universe Just what
We are. The secret will come out We
nay hide 1t while We 1--we. bus We can
lot hide II when We die. To many
ife Is a masquerade ball. AS al such
gentlemen and ladies'
appear In gar6 Of kings or queens or
ha natfs nr elnuna and than