The citizen. (Frederick City, Md.) 1895-1923, 1900-04-06
The treatment Of DOCS and HOES.

lot many are unueSlrOuS OF nearing
Of their greatest faults.
The Treatment of Dogs and Hogs.
III. In spite of every effort to play
the man, you are sure to come into
contact with churlish, swapping, growl-
ing dogs and filthy, vicious, greedy
swine.
Don't stop to argue the question
with such beasts; they can not un.
derstand your holiest motives and
most unselflsh actions. Lest by con-
tact, you become affected with their
mango and slime, it is important to
heed your Masters warning, beware
Of the dogs and the hogs.
Occasionally the highest seat of
power and often the treasury box Of
a college or church missionary so
ciety, falls into the control of the un-
washed and unregenerate. In such q
case, of course, the true man Is to be
excused from contributing bones and
corn for the vile beasts to fatten up
on.
Corporations have no consciences
because their greedy managers lack
the common instincts of brotherhood
and justice.
God Answers Prayer.
Nv. Jesus said: ASK and 1t shall
be given you" The only limitation is
that we shall ask in the name of our
Master, not selfishly, not for minor
things, not for i'll to others, but for
the highest good to all.
In spite Of hypocrisy and fanaticism
and human weakness and ignorance,
true faith will not shorten Gods arm.
What God has done He may do again
and the spiritual death of our times.
with its resultant political corruption
and social discomfort, is largely caus-
ed by the fact that Christian people
lack faith enough to ask God for what
they need. h
Whatever we doubt, we should be
very careful not to doubt Gods power
and willingness to hear the needy CRY
Of his humblest child and to answer
that cry in his own way and in his
own time. Yet alas, many teachers Of
souls have more faith in dispensers
OF quinia pellets and belladonna plast.
ers than they have in the God Of
Elijah and Paul.
The Golden Rule.
v. The gospel apparently at times.
suffers most in the house of its
friends'-that is from professed be.
levers who only half believe and who
refuse to practice. Injunctions easily
understood by the common people and
readily accepted by outrageous sim
ners are mystified and nullified by
representatives, of the conservative
upper classes, who are ready with
folded hands to wait for a reformation
which they will not create by their
voices and their votes.
Others err by asking too much.
as Count Tolstoi did when he quoted
the Golden Rule to a policeman
who was arresting a prisoner: or
as Seddon who attributes laws to
the consent Of the governor. "Yet
this saying may be misunderstood.
III the prisoner should ask the
Judge whether he would be content
10 be hanged, were he in his case he
would answer, mo" Then" saws
the prisoner, "do as you would be
done to-" Neither of them must do
as private men; but the Judge must
DO by him as they have publicly
agreed for the public good: that is,
Doth judge and prisoner have con.
sented to law that If either Of them
snail murder he shall be hanged"
Laws are to be observed because
they are right and because thew are
sanctioned by God
On. that was a bonnie answer.
Not learned where the world keena
school, -
That the wise, wee maiden gave 70
him e'S "
Who asked her the Golden RuIe !.
why. don't you lxnow?" she ouestion.
ed. N'''''t'''''z
ut is Gods own rule" she aa..
The one that he always liva1
himself
Oh, dear little. wise little heat +.
The Effect on Succeeding Aces.
truth forever on the scaffold
wrong forever on the throne.
ret tnat scaffold sways the future
And behind the dim unknown
Sltteth God within the shadow
Aeeping watch above his own.
lanes Russell Lowell.
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