The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-03-28

low who was so proud of his integrity. and
who Dragged he couldn't be overthroWn
by temptation, and was so uproari0us IN
his demonstrations of indignation al the
dedication fifteen years ago. Let us see!'
God lets the man go. God who had
kept that man under his protecting care,
lets the man go, and try for himself the
majesty of his integrity. God letting TIE
man go, the powers of darkness pOunce
upon him. / see you some day in your e.
flee in great excitement one of TWO
things you can do. Be honest, and be pau
perized, and have your children brought
home from school, your family dethroned
in social Influence. The other thing Is,
you can step a little aside from that when
IS right, you can only just go half an inch
out of the proper path, you can only take
a little risk, and then you have all your
finances fair and right. You will have a
large property. You can leave fortune
for your children and endOw a college,
and build a public library in your native
town. You halt and wait, and halt and
walt until your lips get white. You lie
eide to risk IL. Only a few strokes Of the
pen now. But, oh. how your hand ;rem-
bles, how dreadfully IL trembles The ole
Is cast. By the strangest and most aw-
full conjunction of circumstances any ere
could have imagined, you are Frustrated.
Bankruptcy, commercial humiliation, ex-
lis hold carnival and you see your own
name at the head of the newspaper col
umn in a whole congress Of exclamation
points; and while you are reading the
anathema in the reportorial and editorial
paragraphs, it occurs to you how mucn
this story is like that of the defalcation
fifteen years ago, and a clap of thunder
shakes the window sill, saying: with
what measure we mete. it shall be meas
ured to you again!"
You look in another direction. There
is nothing like ebullitious of temper TO
put a man to disadvantage. You, man
with calm pulses and a fine digestion and
perfect health, cannot understand now
anybody should be capsized in temper Ly
an infnitesimal annoyance. You say; Il
couldn't be unbalanced in that way" Per-
haps you smile at a provocation that
makes another man swear. You pride
yourself on your imperturbability. You
say with your manner, though you nave
too much good taste to say it with your
words: II have a great deal more sense
than that man has; 1 have great deal
| more equipoise of temper than that man
| has; 1 never could make such a puerile eX-
hjbition of myself as that man has made"
Let me see. Did you not say that you
| could not be tempted to an ebullition 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 mala-
ria, but what the old folks called chuls
and fever. You take qulnine
untn your ears are first buzz
zing beehives and then roaring
Niagaras. You take roots and herbs, you
take everything. You get well. But the
next day you feel uncomfortable, ana you
yawn and you stretch and you shlVer,
and you consume, and you suffer. Nexed
| more than you can tell, you cannot Steep
| you cannot eat you cannot bear 10 see
anything that looks happy, you go out 10
| kick the cat that is asleep in the SUM-
| your children's mirth was once music 10
| YOU: now ii IS deafening. You say: Boys
ston that racketn You turn back from
| June to March. In the family and an the
| neighborhood your popularity is ninety-hVe
| per cent off. The world says: What is
| the matter with that disagreeable man!
| What a woebegone countenance? can {
| bear the sight of him" You have got
your pay at last-got your pay. You feel
| lust 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 I have come to
| this conclusion, that the most of the peo-
! pie want to be good, but they do not eX-
|
! make enough good resolutions to lift them
into angelhood The vast majority of PEG
| nile who fall are the victims of circum-
| stances. They are captured by ambuscade.
| If their temptations should come out in a
regiment and fight them in fair field they
would go out in the strength and the
| triumph of David against Goliath. BUT
| they do not see the giants and they do not
see the regiment Temptation comes and
| a
vine take this aid to digestion, take this
! nightcap" The vast majority of men ana
| women who are destroyed by opium and
| by rum first take them as medicines. In
making up your dish of criticism in re-
gard to them, take from the caster and the
cruet of sweet oil and not the, cruet of
| cayenne pepper.
| Do you know how that physician, that
| lawyer that journalist became the victim
of dissipation. Why, the physician was
| kept up night by night on professional
| duty. Life and death lowered in the bal
| ance His nervous system was exhausted.
There came a time of epidemic and whole
families were Frustrated and his nervous
strength was gone. He was ali worn out
in the service of the public. Now he
must brace himself up. Now he stimu-
| lates. The life of this mother the life of
this child. the life OF this father, the life
|
| of all these families must be saved, and he
| stimulates, and he does it again and again.
You may criticise his Judgment but re
member the process. 1t was not a selfish
process by which he went down. 1t was
magnificent generosity through which he
| fell.
That attorney at the bar for weeks has
been standing in a poorly ventilated court
ROOM listening 10 the testimony and con-
testing in the dry technicalities of the law,
and now the time has come for him 40
wind up, and he must plead for the life of
his client, and his nervous system is all
gone. If he fails in that speech his eli
ent perishes. If he have eloquence enough
in that hour his client is saved. He slim
ulates
That Journalist has had eXhausting mid
night work He has had to report speeches
and orations that kept him up till very
late hour. He has gone with much expos
ure working up some case of crime in
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