The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-07-04

tne Denent Ol iiie insurance pOucy Wnen
his heart is ready to stop and who comes
from an ancestry characteristically short
lived. One act of fraud told of in big
headlines in the morning papers rightfully
arouses the nations wrath. IL is the in
terest of every good man and good woman
who reads Of the crime to have il exposed
and punished Let it go unscathed, and
public morals, you induce those who are
on the fence between right snd wrong to
go down on the wrong side. and you put
the business of the world on down grade.
The constabulary and penitentiary must
do their work. But while the merciless
glad he Is within the prison doorsi" be
II your work to find out IL that man is
worth saving and what were the causes
of his moral overthrow. Perhaps he
started in business life under tricky
firm, who gave him wrong notions of busi-
ness integrity: perhaps there was a COM
blnation OF circumstances almost unpar-
alleled 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 YOU are
merciful man you will think Of other
perhnpses which, though they will not ex-
cuse, will extenuatc 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
obeying my textl You were angry at the
misdemeanor, but you are hopeful for the
recovery of the recalcitrant. Blessed all
prison reformers! Blessed are those Gov
ernors and Presidents who are glad when
they have a chance to pardoni Blessed
the forgiving father who welcomes home
the prodigall 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 inidelity. It snatches the life pre-
server from the man afoat and affords
not so much as a spar or a plank as sub
stitute. 1t would extinguish the only
light that has ever been kindled for the
troubled and the lost Let the spirit of
infdehty take hold of neighborhood,
and in that. town the marriage relation is
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 a 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-
voled 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
tan benediction was pronounced. j do
not positively say that in prolonged i'll
ness there would have been retraction,
but ] think there would.
| say to all young men hoping to achieve
financial, moral or religious 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
when panics 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 eauipoise put glass
of water to his lips in refreshment and
proceeded with the remark, Gas l 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 ill; we want
it in the engineer when the headlight of
another train comes round the curve ON
the same track we want it i'll Christian
men and women in times when so much
in church and state seems going to demo
htion-self control!
Surprising all other characters in the
worlds biography, stands Jesus Christ,
IA Sal ~. al L..
ner. Witness His behavior toward the
robed ruffians 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 ''his highness" or "his
royal highnesss," but dared to compare
him to cunning fox, saying, GO We and
tell that fox" But, alert to the cry of
suffering, He finds ten lepers, and 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 serpentsl Ye generation of
ton ton Of hells" Yet looking i upon s Peter
with such tenderness that no word was
spoken. and 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
DtlyluB tHt nlRntlesJ 1ONeTnmenL Oh
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
the sunlight has two new paths to tread.
Best illustration the world ever saw of
anger withour sin, anger against the abom
nations which have mauled and blasted
the. earth from its deepest cavern to its
highest cliff. but so much pity for the sin
ming and suffering nations that He allowed
them to transfx Him upon two pieces of
wood nailed across each other on a day
that was dark as night, the windows of
heaven shut because the immortals could
not bear to look down upon the assassin
alton OF the lovehest being that ever
walked the shore of the lakes or without
pillow or blanket slept on the cold mount
aims
Like Him, let us hate iniquity with COM
plete hatred, but like Him may we help
those who are overthrown and be willing
to suffer for their restoration. Then, al
though at the opening Of this discourse
our text may have seemed to command us
to 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
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 scaled the Alpine, the
Himalayan height of my text, which en-
joins, "Be ye angry and sin not"
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