The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1900-01-25

Miserable and Orer Them Consolation
copyright. Louis Klopsch, 1901
WAsHtNoroN, d. C.--Iu this discourse DR..
Talmage shows how we should interest
ourselves in the affairs OF others Tor theit
benefit, but never for their damage; text,
l Peter, tv., 10, N busyDody IN otner mehs
matters"
Human nature is tho samo In all ages.
In the second century OF tho worlds OK
istence people had the same characteristics
as people In the nineteenth century, tue
only difference being that they had the
characteristics for longer time. Ii was
500 years OF goodness or 500 years OF mean
ness instead OF goodness or meanness fot
forty or nfty years. Well, Simon Peter,
who was keen observer OF what was going
on around him, one day caught sight OF
man whose characteristics wero severe
inspection and blRtant criticism OF tho nj.
fairs belonging to people for whom he had
no responsibility, and with tho hand once
Drowned and hardened by fishing tackle
drew this portrait for all subsequent ages
"a busyb0d IN other mems matters"
That kind OF person hRs been trouble
maker in every country since the world
stood. Appointing himself to the work OF
exploration and detection, he goes forth
mischief making. He generally begins by
reporting the infelicitY discovered. He IL
the advertising agent OF iniirmities and
domestic inhnrmony and occurrences that
but for him would never have come to the
public eve or ear. He feels that the secret
ought to be hauled out into light and her
aided. IL he can get one line OF 1t Into
the newspapers, that he feels to be noble
achievement to start with. But no must
not let 1t stop. He whispers 1t to his
neightors, and they In turn whisper 1t to
their nelghbors, until the whole town is
abuzz and agog. You can no moro catch
IL or put 1t down than you can malaria.
1t IL In the mir and on the wing aud anoat.
Taken by itself, 1t seems OF little impor-
tance, but after IA hundred people have han
died It and each has given 1t nm additional
twist II becomes story In size and shape
marvellous. II It can be kept going, after
awhile 1t will be large enough to call the
attention OF the courts or the presbyterles
or conferences or associations. The most
OF the scandals abroad are the work OF the
one whom Peter in the taxt styles "a busy
body ia other mems matters"
First, notice that such a mission Is most
undesirable, because we all require all the
time We can get to take care OF our own
affairs. To carry ourselves through the
treacherous straits OF this lie demands
that we all the time keep our hand on the
wheel OF our own craft. While, AS l shall
show you before get through, we all have
n mission OF kindness to others, we have
no time to waste In doing that which IL
damaging to others.
There is our worldly calling, which must
be looked after or it will beOome n failure
Who succeeds in anything without concen
trating all his energies upon that one
thing2 All those who try to do many thinRs
go to pieces either as to their health OF
their fortune. They go on until they pay
| ten cents on the dollar or pay their body
| into the grave. We cannot manage the
affairs OF others and keep our own affairs
| prosperous. While we are inqulring
how precarlous is the business OF an.
| other merchant and finding out how many
notes he has unpaid and how soon he will
probably be wound up or make an assign
ment or hear the sheriffs hammer smite
| his counter our own affairs are getting
mixed up and endangered. While we are
critlclsing our neighbor for his poor crops
we are neglecting the fertilization of our
owns fields or allowing the weeds to choke
our own corn. While we are trying to OK
tract the mote from our neighbours eye we
fall under the weight OF the beam in our
own eye. Those men disturbed by the faults
OF others are themselves the depot Mt which
whole trains of faults arrive and from which
whole trains of faults start. The men who
have succeeded in secular things or reltg-
ious things will tell you that they have no
time for hunting out the deficits OF others.
On the way to their counting room they
may have heard that u firm in the same
line OF business was In trouble, and they
said, Sorry, very sorry" But they went
In and sat down at their table and opened
the book containing full statement OF
their affairs to sec II they were In peril OF
Delng cauBht In simllar cyclone;
dadders apout town, win nshus IN
pockets ana mats set iar DUCK on tue neau
waiting 10 near paleiul news, are Ihi'ures
now or VIII De iallures' Christiah men
and women VINO go rounu with mouth
and LOOKS fuil OF interrogation points &c
nhu now some otner churcn member u
given 10 eXagHeration or drinks 100 mucu
or neRlects his nome Tor greater OUTSIDE
attractions have themselves SO ittlo grace
In tneit hearts thht no ono suspects tneS
nave any. In proportion as people nr'
consecrated ana holy ana usetul they arr
lenient with Others ana disposed 10 say
wait until we near the other sue OF tina
matter cannot Delieve tnat cnnrSe mnu'
against thut man or woman until we nave
some petter testimony tnah that giVei
Dy these scandal inongers' guess II Is
lie.'
Furthermore, we are incapacitated fol
the supervlsal of others because we canno
see all sides of the affair reprehended
People are generally not 80 much to blam'
as we suppose. 1t Is never right to dc
wrong, but there may be allevlations
There may have arisen conjunction o
circumstances which would have flung an,
one OF us. The world gives only ono sid
OF the transaction, and that Is always th
worst side. That defaulter at thu banl
who loaned money he ought not to huv,
loaned did 1t for the advantage Of another
not for his own. That Young man VIII,
purloined from his employer did so be
cause his mother WAS dying for the lack o