Connecticut western news., 1900-12-06

severely excoriate those who run against another verse of the same chapter? Until we are perfect osr- selves we ought to be lenient with our neighbours imperfections. Yet 1t is of ten the case that the man most vulner- able Is the most hypercritical. Per haps he Is profane and yet has no tol- erance for theft, when profanity Is worse than theft, for, while the latter Is robbery of man, the former Is rob- bery of God. Perhaps he Is given to defamation and detraction and yet feels himself better than some one who Is guilty of manslaughter, not realizing that the assassination of character is the worst kind of assassination. The Iaver for washing in the ancient taber- nacle was at It's side furnished like a preached that layer might see their need of washing. and If by the gospel looking glass we discovered our own need of moral cleansing we would be more economic of denunciation. The most of those who go wrong are the victims of circumstances, and If you and I had been rocked In the same in- lquitous cradle and been all our lives by the same baleful infiu- ences we would probably have done just as badly, perhaps worse.
 Here is a man down In the ditch of A self righteous soul comes along and looks down at him and says: ic in hn p had no business to fall into it. He Is suffering the consequences of his own No one but himself is to blame" And the hard hearted man passes on. But here comes a warm hearted, sympathetic Christian man. He says: '"There Is a man down in the ditch. I must get him out. God help me to get him out" And, standing there on the edge of the ditch, the good man soliloquizes and says to himself, If I had had as bad father and moth ar as he had and all the surroundings )f my life had been as depraving as those that have cursed him, l myself probably have been. down In the Hitch, and If that man had been blessed with as good a father and mother as l have, and he had been surrounded by the kindly influences which have en- all my days, he would prob ably have been standing here looking down at me in the ditch" Then the good man puts his knee to the side of the ditch and bends over and says to the fallen one, Brother, give me your hand" and with one stout grip lifts him up to God and heaven. There are wounds of the world that need the probe and the sharp knife and severe surgery, but the most of the wounds want an application of ointment or salve, and we ought to have three or four boxes of that gospel medicament In our pocket as we go out into the world. We all need to carry more of the "balm of Gilead" and less caustic, more benediction and less anathema. When find professed Christian man harsh and merciless in his estimate of others, I silently wonder if he has not been misusing trust funds or beating his wife. There Is something awful the matter with him.
 Help Rear the Temple.
 We also have need of patience with slow results of Christian work. We want to see our attempts to do good successful. The world Is but improving at so delib- crate a rate; why not more rapidity and momentum? Other wheels turn so swiftly; why not the gospel chariot take speed electric? l do not know. only know that 1t Is Gods way. We whose cradle and grave are so near to- gether have to hurry up, but God. who manages this world and the universe, Is from everlasting to everlasting. He takes 500 years to do that which he could do In five minutes. His clock strikes once in a thousand years. While God took only a week to fit up the world for human residence, geology re veals that the foundations of the world were cons in being laid, and God watched the glaciers, and the fire, and the earthquakes, and the volcanoes as through centuries and millenniums they were shaping this world before that last week that put on the arborescence A few days ago my friend was talking with a geologist. AS they stood neal pile of rocks my friend said to tho scientist, Il suppose these rocks were hundreds of thousands of years in con
 struction?- And the geologist replied "Yes, and you might say millions ol years, for no one knows but the Lord and he won't tell" If 1t took so loni to make this world at the start, be no
 surprised if 1t takes a long while t make 1t over again now that 1t has beer ruined. The Architect has promised to reconstruct 1t, and the plans are al made, and at just the right time 1t will be so complete that it will be At fol heaven to move in, if, according to the belief of some of my friends, this worl6 is to be made the eternal abode of tho righteous. The wall of that temple is going up, and my only anxiety Is tC have the one brick that I am trying t6 make for that wall turn out to be oi the right shape and smooth on all sides so that the Master Mason will not re ject it or have much work with tht trowel to get 1t into place. I am re sponsible for only that one brick though you may be responsible for { panel of the door or a carved pillar ol glittering dome. So we are Gods
 workmen, and all we have to do Is tt manage our own hammer or ax ol trowel until the night comes in which no man can work, and when the worl Is all completed we will have a right tt say rejoicingly: Thank God, I wal privileged to help In the rearing of tha
 temple! I had a part In the work ol the worlds redemption"
 Re Patient Under Wrong.
 Again, we have need of patience un der wrong inflicted, and who escapes i
 in some form? It comes to all peopl, in professional life in the shape of be
 ing misunderstood. Because of this
 how many people fly to newspapers fol an explanation. You see their care signed by their own name declaring
 they did not say this or did not do that They fiuster and worry, not realizing
 that every man comes to be taken fol
 what he Is worth, and you cannot, by any newspaper puff, be taken for more