The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1898-04-03

self on your impertur Dilty- AOu say
with your manner. though you have
too much good taste to say II with your
words: Il have a great deal more
sense than that man has: l have a
great deal more equipoise Of temper
than that man has; l never could make
such a puerIle exhibition OF myself
as that man has made"
Let me see. Did you not say that
you could not be tempted to an ebul-
lition OF temper? Some September
you come home from your summer
watering place and you have inside,
away back in your liver or Spleen
what we call in our day malaria, but
what the old folks called chills and
fever. You take quinine until your
ears are first buzzing beehives and
then roaring Niagaras. You take
roots and herbs. you take everything
You get well. But the next day you
feel uncomfortable. and you yawn, and
you stretch, and you shiver, and you
consume. and you suffer. Nexed more
than you can tell. you can not sleep.
you can not eat. you can not bear TO
see anything that looks happy, you go
out to kick the cat that is asleep in the
sun. Your children's mirth was once
music to you; now, 1t is deafening- You
say: Boys, stop that racket You
turn back from June to March. In the
family and in the neighborhood your
popularity is 95 per cent of The
world says: What is the matter with
that disagreeable man? What a woe
begone countenance? can't bear the
sight of him." You have got your pay
at last-got your pay. You feel just
as the man felt. that man for whom
you had no mercy, and my text comes
in with marvellous appositeness: with
what measure We mete, it shall be
measured to you again
In the study of society ! have come
to this conclusion. that the most Of the
people want to be good. but they do
not exactly know now TO make IL out.
They make enough good resolutions to
lift them into angelhOOd. The vast
majority of people who fall are victims
OF circumstances. They are captured
by ambuscade. II their temptations
should come out in a regiment and
fight them in a fair field they would
go out in the strength and triumph of
David against Goliah. But they do
not see the giants, and they do not see
the regiment. Temptation comes and
says: Take these bitters. take this
nervine. take this cid to digestion. take
this nightcap." The vast majority OF
men and women who are destroyed by
opium and by rum first take them as
medicines. In making up your dish
OF criticism in regard TO them. take
from the caster and the cruet OF sweet
oil and not the cruet OF cayenne pep
per.
.dy friends. this text will come TO
| fulflment in some cases in this world.
The huntsman in Farmsteen was shot
by ONE unknown person. Twenty
years after the son of the huntsman
was in the same forest. and he acci-
| dental-y shot a man. and the man in
dying. said. God is just; l shot your
father just here twenty years ago" A
bish.n said to Louis NJ OF France:
''Makc an iron cage for all those who
| do not -hink as we do-an iron cage
| in waicl the captive can neither lie
| down Tor stand straight up" II was
| fashioneO-the awful instrument OF
punishment. After a while the bishop
| Offended Louis XI. and for fourteen
years he was in that same cage. and
could neither lie down nor stand up.
| 1t is a poor rule that will not work
both Weys. with what measure We
mete. it shall be measured to you
again"
Oh. my friends. let us be resolved 10
scold less and pray more.
What headway will we make in the
judgment il in this world we have been
hard on those who have gone astray
What headway will you and make IN
the last great judgment. when we must
have mercy or perish? The Bible says
They shall have Judgment without
mercy that showed no mercy"
see the scribes of heaven looking NJ
into the face OF such a man. saying:
What you plead for mercy. YOU
whom in all your life never had any
mercy on your fellows? Don't you
remember how hard you were in yom
opinions OF those who were astray-
| OOA IOu NOu
to have given a helping hand you EN-.
ployed a hard heeI7 Mercy, You
must mis-speak yourself when yol
plead for mercy here. Mercy for 9th
ers but no mercy for you. Look" say
the scribes OF heaven. look at thai
inscription over the throne OF judg
ment. the throne OF Gods judgment
See it coming out letter by letter. word
by word, sentence by sentence. unit
your startled vision reads it and youl
remOrseful spirit appropriates it:
With what measure We mete. it shall
be measured to you again. Depart. yt
cursed"
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