Crittenden press. [volume] (Marion, Ky.) 1879-1907, 1899-11-23

pretty, nor does she want the visitor
to sit longer or stay TO dinner. But
these are social receptions, and keep
up good VIII. What an awful thing it
would be for lady to tell her visitor
that she had stayed about long enough,
aud had better go. Not long ago a lady
of our town told two boys who came
to see her boys that they had better
go home, for they had stayed long
enough, and it raised a rumpus that is
rot yet allayed.
But the most numerous and provok-
ing of all deceivers are the adver-
Users of patent medicines. Every
body knows that nine-tenths of their
noStrums are humbugs and their GER
tificates of wonderful cures are either
made up or paid for, and yet the sick
or diseased will strain their credulity
and take another chance to be re
stored. That's all right if there is
no harm in the medicine, but we do
get very tired looking at the conspic-
uous heads and faces of doctors and
patients in the newspapers. Ordinary
lying that has no malice in it is not
a cardinal sin. IL is not forbidden in
the Ten Commandments. Ananias was
not suddenly punished for lying unto
men, but he had lied unto God. He
sought to defraud the Lords treas
ury-and there is many a church mem
her doing the same thing now. They
make no sacrifice. They withhold
part and lie unto their own con-
sciences. The poor widows mite il
still n bigger thing than a rich mans
large donation.
wonder what kind Of a world we
would have if everybody was good?
| don't mean religious, but kind and
Just and honest. Our courts and pris.
ons would be abolished. just think
Of it, But IL cannot he. Original sin
and total dcpravity and moral turpi-
tude are still in the way. The mys-
terry of evil still hangs over us. John
Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer and
other great thinkers say that the Gre
at1r made the very best world and the
best inhabitants that He could out OF
the material that He had, but that i,
is improving rs the centuries roll on.
And John Fiske says that evil is nee
essary TO teach MS what good is. That
If there was no crime or pain or grief
we would have no JOY or happiness
and would not know what it was.
Plato said 1000 years ago that we had
to limit Gods omnipotence or His
goodness. one or the other, and many
learned and sincere men, like Calvin
A. q, Il. hnx oil tn nj la
predestination with free agency, but
il Is all incomprehensble to me, and
| have Ia fall back and intrench my
self on those injunctions which say:
Deal iustly--love mercy and obey the
Lord thy God" and the later one
which SAYS: Thou shalt love the Lord
thy God with all thy heart and thy
neighbor as myself and then accept
David's faith, which saith: Though
lie Stay me, yet will | trust in Him.
I'm not going to strain my mind over
perplexing problems that have never
been solved Mr.. Fiske Is a beautiful
writer. but If evil was created as
contrast so that we might know what
good is, then how can we enjoy
Heaven, where there is no evil, no
crime or grief or affection? One
thing | do know. that this is beauti-
full world. and this life is happy
one to those who choose 10 make it
so. President Dabney, of the Univer-
sity Of Tennessee, said in recent
speech at Huntsville: England is
about to perpetrate great crime
against the Beers in expelling them
from their own domain. But this is
progress and is inevitable. Ii is the
law of nature and the law of nature
is the law OF God" That sounds like
strange doctrine to those who be-
lieve that God is love. The Saviour
said: "Ofrenses must needs come,
but woe unto them by whom they
come" Then what peril are those
rulers in who have the power TO OPP
press and use il to carry out self
ish policy. After all, it is safest to
be an humble, honest citizen and have
no policy.-Bill Arp, in Atlanta Con-
stitution.