Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1899-08-03


which he watered the stock will kneel with
his family In prayers and thank God for
the prosperity of the day, then kiss his
children good night with an AR which
seems to say. II hope you will all grew up
to be as good as your father!' Prisons
crimes dromedarian. No mercy for sins
animalcule in proportion, but great ZEN.
iency for mastodon iniquity. A poor boy
slyly takes from the basket OF market
woman choke pear, saving some one else
from the cholera, and you smother him in
the horrible atmosphere OF Raymond
Street jail or New York Tombs, while his
cousin, who has been skillful enough to
steal $50, 900 from the city, you make
candidate for the State Legislature.
There Is good deal of uneasiness and
nervousness now among some people in
our time who have got unrighteous for
tunes, great deal Of uneasiness about
dynamite. tell them that God will put
under their unrighteous fortunes some-
thing more explosive than dynamite, the
earthquake OF His omnipotent indig-
nation. It is time that we learn In America
that sin is not excusabe in proportion as
1t declares lprge dividends and has out
riders in equipage. Many man is riding
to perdition position ahead and lackey
behind. To steal one copy OF newspaper
lars is camel. There is many a fruit
dealer who would Lot consent to steal a
basket OF peaches from neighbor's stall,
but who would not scruple to depress the
fruit market, and as long as I can re-
member we have heard every summer the
peach crop of Maryland is failure. and
by the time the crop comes In the mis-
representation makes a difference Of mill
lions Of dollars. A man who would not
steal one basket Of peaches steals $4,000
baskets OF peaches.
Go down into the public library, in the
a t,1, opI thn
ports OF the crops from all parts of the
country, and their phraseology is very
much the same, and the Same men wrote
them, methodically and UNANIMOUSLY carry.
ing out the huge lying about the grain
crop from year to year and for score OF
years. After awhile there will be "cor-
ner" In tho wheat market, and men who
had contempt for petty theft will burg
larize the wheat bin of nation and COM
NIT larceny unon the American corn crib,
and some of the men will sit in churches
and in reformatory institutions trying to
while In their grain elevators and In their
storehouses they nre fattening huge
camels which they expect after awhile to
swallow. Society has to be entirely re-
constructed on this subject. We are
to find that sin is inexcusable in pro-
portion as 1t is great. I know in our
time the tendency Is to charge reli-
gious frauds upon good men. They say,
'Oh what host offrauds you have in the
Church OF God in this day! And when an
elder Of church, or deacon, or minis
ter OF the gospel, or sur erintendent Of q
Sabbath-school turns out q defaulter, what
display heads there are In many of the
| newspapers. Groat primer type. Five
line plea. "Another Saint Absconded !"
Clerical Scoundrelsm." "Religlon at q
Discount" "Shame on the Churches, ("
while there are a thousand scoundrels out
etI a ha .h,,r al, % Tn Ia thA oh ..I,
and the misbehavlor OF those who never
see the inside Of q church IS so great that
1t is enough to tempt Il man to become q
Christian to get ont of their company.
But in all circles, religious and irreligious.
the tendency is to excuse sin In proportion
as it Is mammoth, Even John Milton In his
"Paradise Lost" while he condemns satan,
gives such grand description of him you
have hard work to withhold your admira-
ton. oh, this strnining out Of small sins
like gnats and this Iulping down great ini-
auitics like camels
The subject does not give the picture Of
one or two persons, but ts a gallery in
which thousands OF people may soc their
likenesses. For Instance, all those people
who, while they would not cob their neigh
bors OF farthing. appropriate the money
and the treasure OF tho public. A man has
II house to sell. and he tolls his customer 1t
Is worth $4,000. Mex. day the assessor
comes around, and the owne- says it Is
worth $4,000. The Government of the
United States took OF the tax from per g.
sonal income, among other reasons because
so few people would tell the truth, and
many man with an income OF hundreds
OF dollars day made statements which
seemed to imply he was about to be handed
over to the overseer of tho poor. Careful
to pay their passage from Liverpool to
New York, yet smuggling in the;r Saratoga
trunk ten silk dresses from Paris and a
h.lf IL, nk4,x S.tIf
the custom house officer on The wharf,
'There is nothing in that trunk but wear
Ing apparel" and putting n So gold piece
in his hand to punctuate the statement.
Such persons are also described ir The
text who, are very much alarmed apo.t the
small faults of others and have no alarm
about their own great transgreee!oas.
There are in every community and in
every church watch dog. who feel called
upon to keep their eyes on others aad
growl. They are full o. suspicious. Taey
wonder IL this man is not dishonest, IL that
man Is not unclean, II there Is not so-e.
thing wrong about the other man. They
are always the first to hear OF anything
wrong. Vultures are always the first tn
smell carrion. They arc self-appointed
detectives. lay this down as rule with
out any exception that those people who
merciless In their watching Of others.
From scalp of head to sole Of foot they are
full Of jealouses and hypercriticisms.
But lest too many might think they es.
cape the scrutiny OF the text have to tell
you tina. we ell come under the divine sat
ir, when we make the questions of time
more prominent than the questions Of
eternity. Come, now, let us all go into the
confessional. Are not all tempted to make
the question, Where shall 1 f~s now7
greater than the question, Wheys shall I
live foreverp How shall get more dollars
heref greater than tho question, How shall
l lay up treasures In heav .nf the question.
How shall pay my debts to manp greater
than the question, How shall meet obliga-
tions to God? the question, How shall gain
the world2 greater than the questi IN,
What If I lose my soul3 the question Why
did God let sin como into the world2
greater than the question, How shall get
1t extirpated from my nature? tho ques-
tlon, What shall I do with the twenty or
forty or seventy years of my sublunar ex-
istence? greater than the question, What
shall Go with the millions of cycles of my
post terrestrial existence? Time, how small
it Isl Eternity. how vast 1t is? The former
tv,ct A.,o vfaan rutfh tIa