Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-07-26

an1m6lculo IN proportion, but great lem
lency for mastodon iniquity. A poor boy
slyiy takes from the basket OF market
woman choke pear, saving some one else
from the cholera, and you smother him in
he horrible atmosphere OF Raymond
Street jail or New York Tombs, while his
,ousin, who has been skilIful enough to
steal CSC, 900 from the city, you make a
,andidnte for the State Legislature.
There is a good deal Of uneasiness and
nervousness now among some people in
our time who have got unrighteous for
tunes, q great deal OF uneasiness about
dynamite. I tell them that God will put
under their unrighteous fortunes some-
thing moro explosive than dynamite, the
earthquake OF His omnipotent indig-
nation. 1t Is time that we learn in America
that sin Is not excusable in proportion as
It declares lnrge dividends and has out
to per iition position ahead and lackey
behind. To steal one copy OF n newspaper
ls a gnat; to steal many thousands of dol
lars is camel. There is many fruit
dealer who would not consent to steal a
basket OF peaches from n neighbor's stall,
out who would r"t s"rup'n IN Hnnra-- tha
ruit market, and as long as 1 can re-
member we have heari every summer the
peach crop OF Maryland IL failure. and
BY the time the crop comes in the mis-
representation makes a difference OF mil
lions of dollars. A man who would not
baskets OF peaches.
Go down into the public library in the
reading room, and see the newspaper re-
ports OF the crops from all parts OF tre
much tho 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 he ''cor-
ner" in the wheat market, and men who
Co. thaff ht,rs
iarize the wheat bin of a nation and COM
NIT larceny ION the American corn crib,
and some OF the men will sit In churches
and In reformatory institutions irving to
strain out the small gnats OF scoundrelism,
while In their grain elevators and In their
storehouses they are fattening huge
camels which thev expect after awhile to
swallow. Society has to he entirely re-
constructed on th 8 subject. vs. are
to find that n sin Is incxcusable in pro-
portion rs 1t is great. 1 know in onr
time the tendency Is to charge reli-
gious frauds upon good men. They say,
"Oh what a host Of frauds you have in the
Church of God In this day!' And when an
elder OF II church, or n deacon, or a minis
ter OF the gospel. or a sur erintendent OF
display heads there are in many OF the
newspapers. Great primer type. Five
line plea. "Another Saint Absconded,'
"Clerical Scoundrelism, Religion at
Discount" "Shame on the Churches
while there are a thousand scoundrels out
side the church to one inside the church,
and the misbehavlor OF those who never
see the inside OF n church is so great that
1t is enough to tempt n man to become
Christian to get ont OF their company.
But In all circles, religious and irreligious,
the tendency Is to excuse sin in propoT tiou
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 admra-
ton. oh. this straininG out OF small sins
| like gnats and this gulping down great ini-
| auities like camels.
The subject does not give the picture oi
| one or two persons but Is a gallery 10
which thousands OF people may see their
| Ekenesses. For instance, all those people
| who, while they would not rob their neigh.
bors OF a farthing, appropriate the money
and the treasure OF the public. man has
| house to sell, and he tells his customer II
Is worth s20, 1000. Next day the assessor
| comes around and the owner says 1t ts
worth s15,0OO The Government of the
sl I ineoms. s s :Ss:As-.s-.:s.e..s.s s.sesuas
I 80 fe1 pso, D1ncapn6p.. a. :sa.--
many a man with an Ihcome OF hundreds
Of dollars day made statements which
seemed to imply he was about to be handed
over to the overseer OF the poor. Careful
to pay their passage from Liverpool TO
New York, yet smuggling in thel- Saratoga
| trunk ten silk dresses from Paris and q
| half dozen watches from Geneva, telling
| the custom house officer on the wharf
"Thrre Is nothing in that trunk but wear.
ing apparel" and putting IS gold piece
| In his hand to punctuate the Statemen'.
Such persons are also described I'm the
| text who are very much alarmed about the
| small faults Of others and have no alarm
| about their own great transgressions.
There are in every community and In
| ab, ,t,I, ,bA fnnl la1
upon to keep their eyes on others and
| growl. They are full OF suspicious. They
| wonder II this man Is not dishonest, IL that
man Is not unclean, II there is not some
thing wrong about the other man. They
| are always the first to hear of anything
wrong. vultures are always the first to
smell carrion. They are self-appointed
| detectives. lay this down rs a rule with
out any exception that those people who
| have the most faults themselves are most
merciles. in their Watching OF others.
From scalp OF heal to sole of foot they are
full OF jealousies and hyporcriticisms.
But lest too many might think they es.
cape the scrutiny OF the text l have to tell
you that we all 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 nll tempted to make
the question, Where shall [ live nowi
greater than the question, Where shall
live forever? How shall get more dollars
heref greater han the question, How shall
| I lay up treas ures in heaven? the question
How shall pay my debts to MAJ? greater
than the question. How shall meet obliya.
tions to God? the question, How shall gain
the world? greater than the question
| What II lose my soul? the question: Whv
did Gol let sin cone into the W RI 1:
greater than the question, How shall | g.,
it extirpated from my nature? tho que'
tion, What shall l do with the twenty oI
forty or seventy years OF my suhlunar nD-
istence? greater than the question, Whai
shall do with the millions of cycles OF m
post terrestr rial existence2 Time, how smal
it isl Eternity, how vast 1t *? The forrne,
more insignificant in comparison with the
latter than gnat is Insignificant wher
compared with n camel. We lodged th'
text. We said, "That does not mean me-
and that does not mean me-" and with I
ruinOus benevolence we are giving th'
whole sermon away.
But let US all surrender to the charge
What an ado about things here. WHAT poo
preparation for great eternity. As thong
| Z m nnow were larger than II behemOth, n
| though swallow took wider circuit thnr
m albatrOss, rs though n nettle were talle
| than a Lebanon cedar, IA though n gna
were greater than n camel, as thougll
| minute were longer than century. II
though time were higher, deeper, broaie
than eternity. SO tho text which fiashe
with lightning OF wit as Christ uttered
ia followed by the crashing thunder| n
| awful catastrophe to those who make tn
questions of time greater than the qu"-
lions OF tho future, the oncoming, over
ShadowinS future. Oh, eternity, eternii )
eternity!
In 1898 the single colony of Ne
, South Wales imported books and st
, tionery to the value of $2.905.000.
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