The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1899-07-22

il tAs- z-atogz trunk ten xIk dresses
from PARIS and 4 half 6OrSn watches
fron Gs-evA SuitzeTlGzG telling the
cus,oz houzs oSoer On the NASrf;
There Is netking IN that trunk bu;
wearing apparel and putting a Eve
dollar goa piece IN kis hand To punetn-
ate The statement
Described On the text are all those
who aS particular never 70 breAk the
Law o. grammar and who want all their
language A. elegant specimen Of syn
tax strziuing out al the Inaccuracies
q speeeA Nith = Ere sieve Of literary
criticism while through their eonverSa-
ton 20 SANDER and iBnusndo and pro
family and hlseAood larger than a.
whole eSrxvan OF esmelS when they
might better fracture every law Of the
language and shock their Intellectual
taste. and h<ttsr let every verb seek In
vain for It's noninauvs and every noun
for It's government and let every Prepo
siu0u lose it, way In the sentence, and
Aajeefires and PArtieiples and pro
nouns get into = grand not worthy Of
the Fourth ward Of New York on elee.
ton day, than TO commit a moral mac
enraey. Better swallow 6 thousand
gnGts than one camel
Such persons are also described In
the text who are very much alarmed
about the small faults Of others and
have no alarm about their own great
trAnsgrexsionA There are In every com
muuiiy and in every church Watchdog
who feel called upon to keep their eyes
on others and growL They are full of
suspicious They wonder II this man
Il not dishonest II that man Is not IN
clean, II there Is not something wrong
about the other man. They are always
the frs; to hear Of anything wrong.
Yultures r always the first to smell
earrion- They are self-appOinted de-
tectives. Lay this down 81 a rule with
out any exception. that those people
who have the most faults themselves
are most mercilsss in their watchings
Of others. From scalp Of head to sole
Of foot they are foil Of iealousies and
hyperritieizmA They spend their life
in hunting for muskrats and mud
turtles instead Of hunting for Rocky
mountain eagles, always for something
near instead of something grand.
They look at their neighbors' imper-
feetions through a microscope and look
At their own imperiections through q
telescope upside down. Twenty faults
Of their own do not hurt them so much
as one fault Of somebody else. Their
neighbors' imperfections are ike gnats,
and they strain them out; their own i'm
projections are Ike esmels, and they
swallow them.
But lest too many might think they
escape the scrutiny Of the text I have
to tell you that We all come under the
Divine satire when we make the ques-
tons Of time more prominent than the
questions Of eternity. Come, now, let
US all 90 into the confessional. Are not
all tempted &c make the questions:
Where Ahall / live now? greater than
the question: Where shall I live for
ever? How shall l get more dollars
here7 greater than the question; How
shall lay up ~treasuresin Heaven? The
question: How shall | pay my debts
to mani greater than the question::
How shan ! meet my obligations to
God? The question: How shall | gain
the world? greater than the question:
What II lose my soui7 The question::
Why did God let sin come into the
vorid7 greater than the question; How
sLall | get II extirpated from my
nature? The question; What Ahall !
DO with the 20 or 10 or 20 years Of my
sub-lunar existence? greater than the
question; What shall ! do with the mil
lone OF cycles Of my post terrestrial
existence? nme-how small II Isl
Eternity-how vast 1t is! The former
more Insignificant In comparison with
the latter than q gnat Is Insignificant
when compared with a camel. We
lodged the text. We said: THAT does
not mean me, and that does not mean
me" and with a ruinous b~enevolence we
are giving the whole sermon away.
But let US all surrender to the
charge. What an ado about things
herel What poor preparation for a
great eternityl As though a minnow
were larger than q behemoth, as though
q swallow took wider circuit than an
albatross, as though a nettle were taller
than a Lebanon cedar, as though a gnat
were greater than a camel, as though
a minute were longer than a century,
as though time were higher, deeper,
broader than eternity. So the text
which flashed with lightning Of wit as
Christ uttered 1t Is followed by the
crashing thunders Of awful catastrophe
to those who make the questions OF
time greater than the questions Of the
future, the oncoming, overBhadowing
future. Obi Eternity Eternity Eter'
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