The Globe-republican., 1898-03-31

another man swear. You pride your
self on your imperturbability. You say
with your manner. though you have
too much good taste to say 1t with your
words: Il have a great deal more
sense than that man has: have a
great deal more eQuipoise of temper
than that man has; 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 we'll. But the next day you
feel uncomfortable. and you yawn. and
you stretch. and you shiver. and you
consume, and you suffer. Vexed 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. it 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 IS 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-sot 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 how to make 1t out.
They make enough good resolutions to
lift them into ange,hood. 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 AMI
| fight them in 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 aid 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.
My friends, this text will come to
fulfilment in some cases in this world.
| The huntsman in Farmsteen was shot
| by some unknown person. Twenty
years after the son of the huntsman
| was in the same forest. and he acct
dentally shot a man. and the man in
dying, said. "GCd is just; l shot your
| father just here twenty years ago" A
| bishop said to Louis NJ of France:
Make an iron cage fer all these who
| do not think as We dO-an iron cage
| in which the captive can neither lie
! down nor stand straight up" 1t was
| fashioned-the awful instrument OF
punishment. After while the bishop
offended Louis Nj. and for fourteen
years he was in that same cage, and
could neither lie down nor stand up.
1t is poor rule that will not work
both ways. With what measure We
mete. it shall be measured to you
again.
Oh, my friends. let us be resolved to
scOld less and pray more!
What Roadway will We make in tn,
judgment if in this world we have been
hard on those who have gone astray?
What Roadway will you and make in
the last great augment. when we must
have mercy or pE ish? The Bible says.
They shall have judgment without
mercy that showed no mercy"
see the scribes of heaven looking up
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 we're in your
opinions of those who were astray?
Don't you remember when you ought
to have given a helping hand you en-
ployed a hard heel? Mercy. You
must mis-speak yourself when you
plead for mercy here. Mercy for OH
ers but no mercy for you. Look" say
the scribes Of heaven. look at that
| 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. until
your startled vision reads it and your
| remorseful spirit appropriates it:
| with what measure We mete. it shall