The Calhoun chronicle. [volume] (Grantsville, W. Va.) 1883-1984, 1901-08-20

from an ancestry characteristicallr short
lived. One act of fraud told of in big
headlines IN the morning papers rightfully
arouses the nations wrath. 1t is the in
terest OF every good man and good woman
who reads of the crime to have it exposed
and punished. Let it go unscathed, and
you put a premium on fraud. you depress
public morals, you induce those who are
On the fence between right snd wrong to
20 down on the wrong side. and you nut
the business or the worid on n down grace.
The constabulary and penitentiary must
do their work. But while the merciless
and the goddess cry, Good for him am
glad he is within the prison doorsl" be
1t your work TO find out If that man is
worth saving and what were the causes
OF his moral overthrow. Perhaps he
started in business life under a tricky
firm, who gave him wrong notions of bust
ness integrity; perhaps there was a COM
bination of circumstances almost unpar-
Rlleled for temptation. perhaps there were
alleviations, perhaps he was born wrong
and never got over it, perhaps he did not
realize what he was doing, and IL Won are
merciful man you will think OF other
perhapses which, though they will not ex-
cuse, viii extenuate. Perhaps he has al
ready repented and is washed in the blood
OF the Lamb, and is as sure of heaven as
you are.
What an opportunity you have now for
ooeylng my text You were ungry at the
misdemeanor, but you are hopefui for the
recovery of the recalcitrant. Blessed all
prison reformersi Blessed are those Gov
errors and Presidents who are glad when
they have. q chance to pardon! Blessed
the torglrying. father who welcomes home
the prodigell Blessed the dying thief
whom the Lord took with Him TO glory,
saying, This day shalt thou be with Me
in paradise"
There is another evil that we ought to
abhor while we try to help the victim, and
that is in6delity. 1t snatches the life pre-
server from the man nhoat and affords
not so much as a spar a plank as sub
sstltutei 1t would .cxtinguish the only
hight that has ever been kindled for the
troubled and the lost. Let the spirit of
inhdehty take hold of a neighborhood,
and In that town the marriage relation Is
n farce, and good morals give place TO all
STYLES. of immorals. Let it take possession
OF this earth. and there would be no vir-
tue left in all the worlds circumference.
think if q famous infidel of our time
Instead of being taken away instanta-
neously had died in his bed after weeks
and months of illness he would have re-
vobed his teachings and left for his be-
loved family consultations which they
could not find in obsequies at which not
one word of holy Scripture was read or at
Fresh Pond crematory. where no Chris
not positively say that in prolonged i'll
ness ehcre would have been a retraction.
but | think there would.
say to all young men hoping to achieve
ihdhNluls mural OF IeIRlOuS success. con-
troll your tempers. Do not let criticism
or rebuff defeat you. Verdi the great
musician, applied to become a student in
the Conservatory of Music at Milan, and
he was rejected by the director. who said
that he could make nothing of the new
conner, as he showed no disposition for
music. But the criticism did not exasper-
ate or defeat him. The most of those who
have largely succeeded in all departments
were characterized by self control In
battle they could calmly look at the bomb
thrown at their feet, wondering whether
1t would explode. In commercial life.
when panlcs smote the city, these men
were placid, while others were yelling
themselves hoarse at the Stock Exchange.
While others nearly swooned because a
certain stock had gone 100 points down
they calmly waited until it would get 100
points up. While the opposing attorney
IN the courtroom frothed at the mouth
with rage because of something said on the
other side he of the equipoise put n glass
of water to his lips in refreshment and
proceeded with the remark. CAS- / was
saying when the gentleman interrupted
me" Self control! What a glorious
thing! We want it in the doctor feeling
the pulse of one desperately i'll; we want
1t IN the engineer when the headlight of
another train comes round the curve on
the same track; we want it in Christian
men and women in times when so much
in church and state seems going to demo-
htion-self controls
Surprising all other characters in the
worlds biography stands Jesus Christ,
wrathtnl against sin, merciful to the sin
ner. Witness His behavior toward the
robed rufhans who demanded capital pun
ishment for an offending woman-denun-
citation for their sinful hypocrisy, pardon
for her. sweet, penitence. He did not
speak of Herod as This highness" or "his
royal highness," but dared to compare
hmm to cunning fox, saying, Go we and
tell that fox" But, alert to the cry of
suffering, He finds ten lepers, aud TO how
many of the ten awful invalids did He
give convalescence and health Ten. Re
buking Pharisaism in the most compressed
sentence in all the vocabulary of ana
thema: "Ye serpentsi Ye generation of
yipers! Howw, can we, escape the damna-
ton OF hell?" Yet looking upon Peter
with such tenderness that no word was
spoken. end not a word was needed, for
the look spoke louder than words. "And
the Lord looked upon Peter and Peter
went out and wept bitterly"
Defying the miRhtiest Government Of
the world, the Roman Government vet
rubbing His hand just below the forehead
Of the blind until the optic nerve of him
! who was born sightless is created and
J the sunlight has two new maths to tread
! Best illustration the world ever saw of
| anger without sin, anger against the abom-
! nations which have mauled and blasted
/ the earth from its deepest cavern 20 its
highest cliff. but so much pitv for the sin.
them TO transfx Him upon two pieces of
! wood nailed across each other on a dav
! that was dark as night, the windows Of
/ heaven shut because the immortals could
I not bear to look down upon the assassin.
/ alton of the lovehest being that ever
| walked the shore of the lakes OF without
! pillow OF blanket slept on the cold mount
aims.
! Like Him, let us hate iniquity with com.
| plete hatred, but ike Him may we help
I those who are overthrow and be willing
! 10 suffer for their restoration. Then, AZ
/ though at the opening OF this discourse
/ our text may have seemed to command us
I 10 do an impossible thing, we will at the
! close of this sermon. with a prayer TO
/ God for help, be more rigid and deter.
/ mined than ever before against that which
I Is wrong, while at the same time we shall
feel so kindly toward all the erring and
work so hard for their rescue that we will
realize that we have sealed the Alpine, ths
| Hlmalayan height Of my text which sn,
! joins, BE ye angry and sin not"
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