Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1899-07-22
lieious frauds npon good men. They say,

sfAs WHIT u most Nl ilAhtiS You Lave IN E
the church ~ God IN this day" And VIII ~ /
an cider If church. or a deacon. or
minister If the gospel. Of a sup"rint"nd /
ent of a sabbath school turns ont 4 lc
faulter. what display heads there are IN
many II Tia" newspapers err n primer !
type, Five line plea. Another Saint
Ahscoudcd." Clerical ScnundreIism.'
Religion nj Discount. Shame on ths /
Churches" while there are a thousand |
ScoundrclS outside the church To- one in
side the church. AMI the mishehavior Of
those who never see the inside of >
church is great that il j. enough ID
tempt man 10 heromc Il Christian &
get on, 81 their company. But in all cir |
cles. religious and irrcliginns. the tend /
enry is to excuse sin in proportion as ii
Is mammoth. Even John Milton in hi,
Paradise Lost" while he condemns sa-
tan. gives such grand description 81 |
him ynn have hard work Ia withhold I
y"'r admiratonn. oh this straining out
~ small sins like enats and this gupinc |
down great impurities like camels,
DONE Mind small Thing.
This subject does not give the picture
If one az two persons. hut Is gallery in
which thousands If people may their 1
likenesScs. For instance. all those peo-
pie who. while they would not rob their |
neirhhors of = farthing. appropriate the
money and the treasure nf the public. \
man has a hnnsc L. sell and he tells his
customer il Is worth S2n0oo. Next day
the assessor comes around aud the owner
says il is worth Sia.0o0 The govern
ment Of the United States took off the
tax frnm personal income. among other
reasons because 50 few people would tell |
the truth, and many man with an in.
come 81 hundreds If dollars day made
statements which seemed Ia imply he
was about to be- handed over in the over
seer II the poor. Careful Ia pay their
passage from Liverpool To- New York yet
smuggling in their Saratoga trunk ten
silk dresses from Paris and half dozen
watches from Geneva. Switzerland. tell
ing th" custom house officer on the wharf.
Their" is nothing in that trunk hut
wearing apparel and putting a five dol
lar gold piece in his hand to punctuate
the statement
Described in the text are ali those who
are particular never 10 break the law Of
grammar and who want all their Ian
guage nm elegant specinrnt Of syntax.
straining out all the inaccuracies Of
speech with a fine sieve of literary crit
icism. while through their conversation
20 Islander and innuend" aud profanity
and falScho"d larger than whole cara
van Of camels. when they might better
fracture every law Of the language and
shock their intellectual taste. and better
let every verb seek in vain for its nomina.
tive. and every noun for its government.
and lei every proposition lose its way in
the sentence. aud adieciivcs and pnrtici.
piles and pronnnns get into n grand riot
worthy Of tn. Fourth ward Of New York
on election day. than Ia commit n moral
naccuracy. Better swallow n thousand
gnats than one camel
wasted Lives
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 iranSgres-
slonS. There are in every community
and IN every church watchdogS who feel
called upon to keep their eyes on others
and growl. They are full of suspicious
They wonder il this man is not dishonest
If that man is not unclean. il there Is
not something wrong about the other
man. They are always the first 90 hear
of anything wrong. MIXTURES are always
the first Ia smell carrion. They are self
appointed detectives. | lay this down as
a rule without any exception. that those
people who have the most faults them
selves are most mcrcilcss in their watch
ing of others. From scalp ii head To-
sole 81 foot they are full Of icalnusicS and
hypercrticisms. They spend their life in
hunting Tor muSkrats and mud turtles
instead ~ hunting for Rocky mountain
eagles. always for something mean in
stead Of something grand. They look nj
their ncighhors' impcrfcctions through n
microscope and look At their own imper
fectionS through telescope upside down
Twenty faults 81 their own do not hurt
them much as one fault ~ somebody
else. Their ncighbors' impcrfcciions arc
like gaais. and they strain them ont
their own impcrfcctions are like camels.
and they swallow them.
But lest too many might think they
escape the scrutiny Of the teNt. have 10
tell you that wc al come under the Iii
vine satire when We make the questions
Of time more prominent than tn. aucS
iions Of eternity. Com" now lci u an
70 into the confessional. Are not al
tempted 70 make the question. Where
shall live now! greater than the ques.
ton. Where shall live forever? How
shall | get more dollars here? greater
than the question. How shall | lay up
treasures in heaven: the question. How
shall ! pay my debts Ia man. greater
than The question. How shalt | meet my
obligations to Cod the question. How
shall gain the wprldt greater than the
question. What IL | lose my soul? the
question. Why did Gnd let sin come into
the world greater than the question.
How shall | get il pxirpatcd from my
nature the question. What shall | do
with the ~ "r 10 az 80 years III my sub
lunar existence greater than the ques.
tion. What shall dc with the millions
Of cycles If my post terrestrial existence?
Time how small il is Eternity how vast
il j., The former more insignificant in
comparison with the latter than gnat
is insignificant when compared with
camel We lodged the text We said.
That does mol mean me. and that does
not mean me and with . ruinons 10
nevolence we are giving the whole ser.
mon away.
hui let rs all surrender to the charge.
What an ADJ about things here. What
poor preparation fur great eternity, A.
though mium1w We're larger than be
hcma'h n though swallow tack wider
circuit than ~ alhattnSS. rs though a
nctfie wcre taller than a Lebanon cedar.
n though gnat were greater than n
camel. aS though minute were longer
than century. though time we're
higher deeper. broader than eternity. so
I'll. text which flashed with lightning II
wit rs Christ uttered il is followed 10y
the crashing thunders IL awful catastro
phe u those whn NAH. the questions Of
time greater than the questions Of the
future. the oncoming. ovcrshadowing fu.
.urc oh, Eternity. Eternity. Eter
nifty,