The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-03-28
GODS JUST MEASURE
Vt WILL ss THE MEASURE YOU APPLY
TO oTHERa

to recover themselves; text, Matthew vii,
Q, with what measure you mete 1t shall
DO measured to you again."
In the greatest sermon ever preached
a sermon about 10 minutes long according
to the ordinary rate Of speech-a sermon
on the Mount Of Olives, the preacher sit
ting while no spoke, according to the an
cient mode Of oratory, the people were CIV
en- to understand that the same yardstiok
that they employed upon others would be
employed upon themselves. Measure 9th.
ers by harsh rule, and you will be meas
ured by harsh rule. Measure others by
charitable rule, and you will be meas
ured by a charitable rule. Give no mercy
to others, and no mercy will be given to
you. with what measure ye mete 1t shall
be measured to you again"
There is a great deal of unfairness In
criticism in human conduct. 1t was to
smite that unfairness that Christ uttered
the words Of the text, and my sermon will
DO q re-eoho Of the divine sentiment. In
must take into consideration the pressure
of circumstances 1t is never right to do
wrong, but there are degrees Of culpabiiity.
When men misbehaye or commit some
atrocious wiokedness, we are disposed in
Discriminatory to tumble them all over
the bank Of condemnation. Suffer they
ought, and suffer they must, but in diff
ference of degree.
The Hereditary Tendency.
In the first place, in estimating the mis-.
doing of others we must take into calcula-
tion the hereditary tendency. There is
such thing as good blood, and there is
such thing as bad blood. There are FAM
lilies that have had moral twist In them
for hundred years back. They have not
been careful to keep the family record in
that regard. There have been esoapades
and maraudings and scoundrelisms and
moral deficits all the way back, whether
you call 1t kleptoInania or pyromania or
dipsomania or whether 1t be In a milder
form and amount to no mania at all. The
strong probability is that the present Grim
inal started life with nerve, muscle and
bone contaminated. As some start life
with natural tendency to nobility and
generosity and kindness and truthfulness,
there are others who start life with just
the opposite tendency, and they are born
liars or born malcontents or born outlaws
or born swindlers.
There is in England school that is
called tho Princess Mary school, All tho
children in that school are tho children of
convicts The school is under high patron
age. l had the pleasure of being present
at one Of their anniversaries, presided over
by the Earl of Biutcre Ely wise law in
England after parents have committed a
certain number Of crimes and thereby
shUh themselves incompetent rightly to
briug up their children tho little ones are
taken from under pernicious influences
and put in reformatory schools where all
gracious and kindly influences shall be
brought upon them. OF course the expert
ment is young, and it has got to be DEM
onstrated how largo percentage OF the
children Of convicts may be brought up to
responsibility and usefulness. But we all
know that 1t is mere difficult for children
Of bad parentago to do right than for chill
dren Of good parentage
All Born Equal.
In this country we are taught by the
Declaration of American Independence
that all people arc born equal. There pever
was q greater Misrepresentation put In
one sentence than In that sentence which
implies that VIC are ell born equal. You
as may as we'll say that flowers are born
equal or trees are born equal or animals
arc born equal. Why does one horse cost
500 and another horse cost 81, 000p Why
does one sheep cost $40 and another sheep
cost S5009 Difference in blood We are
wise enough to recognize it in horses, in
cattle, in sheep, but we are not wise enough
to mako allowance for the difference In
tho human blood. Now, demand by the
law of eternal fairness that you be more
lcnient in your criticism Of those who
were born wrong, in whose ancestral line
there was a hangman's knot, or who came
from trco the fruit OF which for centuries
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