Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1902-08-15

brother minister was charged with the
same crime. Within one year not only
was that old minister condemned in
the church court, but in the criminal
court Of the state he was convicted by
a jury which did not leave their seats"
So my text has a more farreaching eff
feet t1aE at first might be supposed.
The words Judge not, that We be not
judged" imply that when we are harsh
and uIfOrgiving and merciless and Bit
ter and cruel in our criticisms Of 9th
ers then we ourselves are in all likeli-
hood gOaded on by our own sins in
making these criticisms about others.
Therefore if you and I feel bitter
against the sins of others it is high
time for US to examine our own sinful
hearts; it is high time that we fall upon
our own knees in supplication and plead
with The Lord God Almighty that he
might cleanse us, that he might purify
us. that he might forgive us. 1t is the
sin in our own lives that urges us on to
condemn the sins in others. 1t is our
own evil eyes that are able to see only
the imperfections in others.
Tie Not Hasty to Condemn.
No man should rashly condemn an
other, because it is often impossible for
him to realize what were the mitigat-
ing circumstances in which the sin was
conceived. If all men were born free
and equal, as the American Declara-
ton Of Independence Optimistically de-
clares, you could judge them in the
bulk. You could judge any two men
as you might test two bars Of steel
which come from the same mold. You
could judge them, as you might say
that g. pound Of coffee ought to weigh
as much as a pound of tea; but all
men are not born free and equal We
are different In hereditary tendencies.
Only a short time ago at a convention
of the WOmen's Christian Temperance
union a delegate read the record Of
woman with criminal tendencies who
died in 1927. The name Of this WOm-
an, for obvious reasons, was not told.
This woman of criminal tendencies
has had up to date over 800 descend
nnts Seven hundred of these descend
ants have been criminals, and all were
convicted at least once and most Of
them more than once for crime. ThiP-
ty-six OF those descendants have been
murd erers. And" said the speaker,
''the blood of that one woman of Grim
| inal tendencies has cost the nation in
eighty years over $3,O00,OOO for trials
and executions and for the property
stoler or destroyed" Is not the blood
that lows in your veins happily differ
ent from that which flowed in the
veins of those children?
We are different in the surroundings
of babyhOod and bOyhood and young
manhood. Some men never knew the
love Of a parent. Their father and
mother died when they were very
young. Instead of being able to get
an education. as you and ] have been,
they were pushed out into the great
world unprepared for the struggle Of
life and told to shift for themselves
We GPe as different as flowers are diff
ferent Some are planted in rich soil
others in poor. Some are cared for by
loving hands; others have to fight fol
their lives among the bristly thorns
and the eYePshadowing weeds. Some
have enough sunlight to incuhate anC
develop them and just enough showers
and ieWs to slake their thirst. Othel
flowers are continually being scorcheC
by the droughts and deluged by thu
fresliets.
Faiths Saving Grace.
We are all different In our inheritet
temperaments and our power to resis
temptation. Oliver Wendell Holmes
the quaint poet and philosopher. one
wisely said, Every child's training
should begin ut least 100 years befor
that child is born" Have you and
any right to condemn a mans action
unless we can put ourselves In tina
mans place? Then after we have pu
, ourselves in our erring brothers plaC
have we a right to affirm that we,
our own strength, would have don
, other than he has done7 If we
thus affirm. we are not honest and tru
/ to ourselves, for some Of the mightiel
and best men Of God have testiie
Just the opposite. Glorious John New
ton, trumpet throated John Newtol
/ Holy Spirit inspired John Newtol
!, once declared that he never saw a mu
/ derer being led away to the gallOv
but he always said to himself, "Thel
: goeH John Newton unless he had bee
saved by the grace Of God" Horat
. Seymour, twice governor of New Yor
a in II large religious meeting once Sc
! emily declared: "In my time, as Il
! chief executive of the state of Ne
: York. have had to examine hundret
0 OF applications for pardons. After
It had carefully examined them and full
entered into the lives of the convict
o and realized the influences viii
Ie caused those crimes / am free to &C
l. TESS that had 1 had the same inf
h enCes about me as those men had
ID every case should have commit
IF the same crimes, If not blOcker one
70 Oh my brother, instead of cOnden
IS ing your brother put yourself in yC
Of erFing brothers place. Get down
20 your knees and offer a prayer Of gr
ne itude that you have not been tempt
g. as he is tempted. You ought to /
II. down on your knees and thank G
n that even in your lesser template
re you have been saved solely by an
be spring faith in a divine love VIII
is. may never have been kindled in "
lie brothers sinful heart.
no human being should condemn
. RelghbOr. because it is only the Low
IRA tear Of pleading sorrow that {
no qrench the fires Of sin and not
~ sharp tongue which "breaketh
nm Bone" 1t is only the warm, gen
protecting, outstretched arm of
- friend that draws the sinner tow
teI G ID and heaven; not the clinched
of an enemy. Did you ever SCI
Mt minister who became a better n
IAN lister through the fault finding of
i'd: congregation? Did you ever know {
ub- wife who became a better wife
INST ciluse her husband talked against
i've to his neighbors? Do you know Of
vow human being who was brought cl,
led, tn your heart and to God by b,
'me demeaned in the eyes Of his fel
nay men through bitter denuneidtions
his you hurled against him? No!
said SANDER and utilization and trad
lme nlent and disparagement and evil
nan NOR, repeated by your lips. never E
one ened or purified a sinful heart.
tier only drove the sinner farther a
was from you and farther from God.
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