The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-08-09

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',id ,eeds-Only TI'rt which Come'
., 'r pown From Heaven Can Bs
,s'neat to Humanity.
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.croy d. &. From Norway.
e1n,NO T,lmagc is now staying. he
|. ~ c,llowing discourse, in which he
.s ,hc world can never he bcne.
'U religion Of human manufacture,
4 n 'g.' yiold. to ones surroundings
g''G G,yc a religion let down from
ttst. Amos w. . And the Lord
me-. Amos what seest thou? And
~ masonry OF the world has fot
m,tion Walk about some of the
M riches and the cathedrals. 40C
H. old. and see them stand a,
.'ber they were builded. walls OF
,ti f,r centuries rot bending %
If an inch this way or TINT. Sc
IGNORED were the masons Whc
.5osc walls that they were free
..,ion and called free ,nasons
e.l gaf. most of the credit foI
t,Llinq. and its clear ringing on
@ bricr has sounded dcr 1ss the
rsl thern is another implement Of
,,uch imrortluCc as the troWel
/, text recognizes II Hric'tayer'
,,peuason. and carpenters in tht
.o' walls usc an instrument made
\ off the end of which a lump OF
%.cncd They drop it over the
.hs vall. and. as the plummet nat
slss the centre of gravity in the
. ,bo workman discovers where the
.gie. and where it bulges out and
4 ret is the perpendicular. Our text
mt. tod as standing on the wal
-gcier. which the Israelites had
'rl in that way testing it. "And
4 ,J aid unto me, Amos. what seest
and said \ plumb line
III, ibe world wants is straight M
i,rr religion. Much of the so-called
tbc dav bends this way and that
ibe times. 1t is oblique. with
AL OF sentiment and morals. We
/ N been building a wall of character
rarInglv imperfect and needs re
rtion. How shall it be brought into
mar. Only by the divine meas
IN. "And the Lord said unto me
WHAT ,cest thou? And | said. \
lne
whole tendency OF the times is tc
Ms act by the standard of what 9th
We throw over the wall of om
tq the tangled plumb line OF Other
4 nl reject the infullible test which
| aw. The question for me shoulc
what you think is right, but what
| links is right. This perpetual refer
/ d the behavior OF others, as though
Ned anything but human fallihility
IrHake as wide a. the world. There
lO plumb lines in use, but only one
and exact. and that is the line OF
/ eternal right There is mighty at
. being made to reconstruct and liN
Ten Commandments. To many they
! oo rigid. The tower of Pisa leans
i bout thirteen feet from the perpen.
h and people go thousands of miles
rs graceful inclination and to learn
b extra braces and various architec.
0ntriyances, it is kept leaning from
b to century. Why not have the ten
j. blocks OF Sinai set little aslant!
| .0t have the pillar of truth lean
ru: Why is not an cllipse as good
glre: Why is not an oblique ms
e straight up and down? My
3 we must have a standard. Shall
5od's or mans?
divine plumb line needs to be thrown
d Merchandise. Thousands of years
Nomon discovered the tendency of
to depreciate goods. He saw a
hating down an article lower and
and saying it was not worth the
sSed, and when he had purchased
owes, point he told everybody
sharp bargain he had struck, and
had outwitted the merchant. 1T
l.ii saith the buyer, but when he is
H way, then he boasteth" (Prov.
n l4, Society is so utterly askeW
natter that YOU seldom find sell
ig Ihe price that he expects to get
lon higher value than he expects
nIe knowing that he will have to
And when he wants fifty he says
Fave and is he wants 2000 he asks
II Is naught,' saith the buyer
aolc is defective, the style of goods |
! can get elsewhere better ar
smaller price. 1t is out of fash |
damaged, it will fade, it will not |
MI. After awhile the merchant |
dlerSuaslon or from desire to dis |
1aI particular stock of goods, says
axe 1t at your own price and the
~ goes home with light step and |
10 hls private Office his confidential
and chuckles while he tells how
Tce he got the goods. I'm Other
4 He'd and was proud of it.
Wy would make times so good anC
lng OF a livelihood so easy as the
Ny adoption of the law of right
n strikes through all bargain max
1n VINO sell know not whether they
geI the money. Purchasers know
fAer the goods shipped will be ac
70 the sample. And what. with
number of clerks who are max
entries and then absconding and
i%i@Gn OF firms that fail for mill
golars, honest men are at theiI
as TO make living. He who
Y and all the pressure and does
lT4complishing something toward
.uhnment OF a high commercial
l's'ure to do wrong is stronger
l4CI that IN our day the large
houses are swallowing up the
ng whales dining on bluefsh ano'
| Inc large houses undersel the
as because they buy in greater
Tiu Tu al lower figures from the
| lhGiy can afford to make moth
"'ualIy lose on some styles OF
sueu they can make it up on 9th.
great dry goods house goes out
! regular hne and sells books at
III lhan cost, and that swamps
Aylef' or the dry goods house
GuIac at lowest figures, and that
"V small dealer in bric-a-brac
same thing goes on in other
n YTeIehandlse, and the consequence
aohg the business streets of all
were are merchants of small
siO are m terrific struggle to keeI
l"r ~ 'u9Ve water, The ocean liners
4 N lne Newfoundland FISHING
hS in'S Is nothing against the mar
4 It..0 Nv lhI every nun ndt
4 ,n' and as great a business as
ssni and do right under all this
or,iI INJURIES martyr grace, requires
4 sfr}Wl' requires celestial re.en
4 leI there are tens of thou
TL,uch men getting splendily
ihey see others going up anc
going down, but they keeT
,i,,o. sye and courage and their Chris
! N TSII'enCy and after awhile theil
in IN come, There is generally re
! 4 nhe iolhe form for greediness. Th,
n Un %y olg business will die, and
IN, 'in get possession of the bust
4 M obi II a cigar in their mouths anC
D,ir sulhs with the best liquor and
PHr OF sDanking have tha,, ,,,;U