The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1901-03-19
WONDERFUL
TRUTHS.

Zaccheus was little. lie ran before
the multitude and climbed into Il
sycamore. He did not waste his
time in upbraiding himself for beng
'little" or finding fault with his sur
roundings. He acted on the impulse
of the moment and accomplished his
purpose. Jesus saw him in the tree
and told him to make haste He
made haste and came down. He
knew how to make haste to get into
the tree and he made haste to get
down. Some men would never get
over it if they made haste in religion.
They can run" and "climb" in
obcying the world, the flesh or the
devil: but to ''makc haste in obey
ing Christ would 50 muss up their
sense of propriety that they would be
liable to instant death from cOngeS-
ton of the emotions. But they can
make haste in politics. tOnly in
Delaware in electing Senator's and
business and pleasure, who can
"run" and "climb" after the thing
of time and sense ought to carry at
least something of their push and
energy into religion.
Too many in our churches are like
the little boat that carried an I'M
mcnse whistle that il took all the
steam to blow it: SO whenever it
whistled it stopped running So it
ls the whistle Of their profession is
too big for the supply OF steam. 1t
takes all their energy to blow it, to
tell of their attainments and what
wonders they are going to do 10
see a number of these crafts steaming
about camp meeting harbor or revival
inlet and listen to the blowing you
would think, especially if you heard
it before, that the dawn Of the mil
lenium had come. Peter followed
Christ aIar Off There are in our
churches today just such men as Peter
How many pastors have been at their
wits end to heal the mischief done
by some well-meaning, impulsive Pc
ter with his official or rather OiliciouS
sword.
1t is hard to get them to 'put up
the sword as Jesus told Peter but
Jesus healed the ear of Malchus and
Peter was so thunder struck, dazed.
So he not only put up his sword but
he unbucklcd it and threw it away;
for, in the hall, it was not his sword,
but his speech that betrayed him.
So VIC learn from this that we ought
to guard the feeling which was the
secret of Peters shameful fall. II
we are acting the part of a gentle
man and Christian, let nothing that
any person may say Or do, cause you
to act in any other way. You have
duties which you owe to God and |
your fellows; let no slight or want of
appreciation turn you aside from dis
charging them. DO not be too thin
skinned. Cultivate dimness of vision
IL seeing Sights and insults. Re
member that more than half the
Sights about which people worry and
chafe are mere creatures of the imag-
nation. So put up the sword.
The Christian life is race; at his
conversion he enters the race course
and his name is recorded and pub
lished. He has more to do than to
run a race. He has enemies. many
and malicious, to encounter as he
runs. He has trinity (the world,
the flesh and the deviD against him
as well as for US (Father, Son and
the Holy Ghost.) The race ends at
death. You cannot tell what the
end is going to be by the beginning.
The most hopeful beginning may
have a hopeless ending. He that ell.
dureth unto the end shall be saved.
1--WE will say someI evil beast
hath devoured him. Genesis 1920.
This is no part of revelation. 1t is
premeditated falschood agreed to and
told by Joseph'S brother to account
for his absence. From the very first
it was so. Adam struck upon that
mean device, and threw the blame of
his sin upon his wife, "Thc woman
that thou gavest me- There is as
far as known no instance in the Bl-
bic that so clearly indicates the
strength of the tendency as this.
Bear in mind that Adam had only
been recently married and that he |
thought the world and all of his wife |
or course if he had been married a
few years he would have resembled |
many modern husbands 50 closely |
that we might not have thought 1t
remarkable: for | have seen some
husbands who after few years could !
say very ungallant and humlliating |
things to their wives and about them |
especially if trying to cover up their |
own iniquty.
know not what some men would |
do if there was nothing and nobody |
they could blame for their sins. Some |
blame one thing or person and some
another: but like JOscph'S brethren.
they know there is no wild beast"
and they must sooner or later confess
their sins and say, ave are verify |
guilty" Sin is sin though covered |
up and unsuspcctcd. Their lying |
story was believed: but their sin was !
still fact unchanged and they knew |
it. When Jacob, their father, recom-
mcnded them to so to Egypt for food
the word Egypt shot through them |
like a shout OF doom. The old man
was quite mystifcd which he saw the
way the boys looked at each other |
when he mentioned the word Egypt.
Murder will out.
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