Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1903-05-23

N4th <ecIni1-tN no tti2it power. WI lutt
when once he haS been caJsht and har-
messed AID properly driven. anil probably
no one 80 mucn surprised * the man hin:
sell. The difficulty l. uot IN finding wen
that are competent 10 do what i needed.
hUt in getting men 10 do enough To nccnne
Themselves persuaded that they are compe
tent
Just As there are Neonie tia: ere So in
The habit Of thinking they are sick tha.
hey never ret well. and nothing !e>S than
! fright or an earthquake vii convulsc
them INTO co1va'eSc2ncc. 20 society and the
,hurch and the Stale are fui Of comretent
.neara9,cS who are good Ter nothing siinp'y
hecause they have never commenced Il
imagine that they are good for almos; any
hing. ard: have never been - c,rcum
,tanccd OF have never 80 had responsibility
oiled anon them - 80 shake them out oi
heir iucap5city. Moses j. a case N poirt.
Who. M 10 the time no was eighty. never
lid anything noteworthy. 20 lar as wc can
earn. except "a Xii an Egyptian tnnda.
mentally the same man. al course. ;hat he
vas during the orowning. Distinguishing
oerlod of his life. Int not having happened
turing his first four score wears to hc 60
.ircumStanccd or IL he piuci;ed Nv
he pull Of events as 10 discover that he
Vas not nonentiiy. ana when summoned
- action by Jehovah. Pleading eff a.
many like him have done since by ALLEGING
himself to he corsttut ionaliv unequal -
Inc task that was set him. Il Won ask
nan to do something who thinks himself
.ncomretent and he SAYS Ne. yoi have
% take his No" The advantage the Lord
las is that He does not have 20 take =
mans No did not take NJ ,~es No
ont chung 10 him. stood him up and put The
.oad On him aud tod him 10 20 along with
I. and Just the weight Of the ioad made
I'm able 10 GO along with y. pressure found
:he limp muscles that had been waiting fnr
almost century 10 he crushed INTO ever
zion. and circumstances not made him
yreat. nut gave him n chance IL he what
he and millions OF other people are II con
1ition 10 he when the chance comes. wher
he assassin's bullet strikes when ri tie
onportune moment a shove IS givea into
The Pool Of bethesda.
No matter what a person IS in native
icutencss or in inward moral and Christian
beauty. we give him creai; FOR only -
much as has externalizcd Itself and a. hss
crought itself into a kind OF encompas-inc
nalo. and we base estimate on the square
contents OF the halo. Won have many
'ime seen a locomotive looming oGi OF the
darkness with its flashing headlight. and
that light has appeared to Won 50 brilliant
n the dense night il has seemed to YOU al
most Is though the iron; Of tie engine
we're frescoed with section 0; the sun
md the ground for 4 hundred rods IN ad
-ance OF the train whitened with almost
The hrilhancy OF DAYTIME. BIT ii Won have
had an opportunity 10 inspect that head
light and 10 narrow all this illumination
iown 10 is fountain source You have very
likely discovered there a small glass lamr
furnished with 4 wick aud little kerosene
oil. This is not to find fault with The HIGHT
put only 10 call attention 10 the fac'
which yen are Likely to forget. that in C.
timating il You reckoned in the re:.s-'or
fra.f.s
and which made you suppose there was
great deal more righteousness than was aeI,
nally the case. That Is the way in which
our estimates generally are arrived at
original light with the circImjacen: ref'cc.
tor added in-oentral fame pms the au
veole.
Now the Lori in His estimates is
penses with aur5ole-which : " hat Scrip
ture means when il says tha: He ,ooIc;n
rot on the outward appearance. He j.
never misied by reiiectors or by the ao'
.ence al Ieiisctors. \ man NAY haze very
little virtue and Vet put that virtue mt
some SNOWY achievement with large ~
perficial area. whereupon men get ont
their measuring rods. figure mp the area
consult the multiplication table and deciCe
that he has i great deal of virtue: taaf =
what | mean by computing on bass 81
aureolc adding reflector & he iit;.e k'ro-
sene lamp. On the other hard. = person
may have an immense a'1"u"- oi virtue.
nut circumstances be such TIM !: never
becomes manifested IL wav % arrest AT
tention-a very beautiful -n II may .e
hut not shining under conditions that lins
it with & hl,o
Now that was the case with tce woman
in the temple. The ha.o iUn-S:s s3W
nothing bu; commonplace wlGax lrave.-
ing past the contribution box. The Lord
with whom nimbus does Rot ca9nt. saw
and felt what the woman herself !acaai
and was. To Him she was tie same ~
though She had drorped in a Thousand
shekels. but not to others who were pres.
oat. 10. other. would have reasoned ius: a.:
reoplc do now. and would have Looked ia
the size al her gilt to determine the re
of her heart and would have conc.udSd
therefore that she had a two-renny hca::
Already nineteen hundred years ago that
poor widow had been become coav wheel
that nobody has \ right ~ de rioh.
She acted on the principle when she threw
in her two mites. No one mad ANYTHING
of il hut Jesus. because there VA, rot gid
ing enough upon her advertisement OF the
principe 10 make the arr brgh. about :.
Nineteen hundred wears la;cr ine same
principe thai NOBODY has right II d
die rich We aGroanccd ny one quite 'iIf
fcrenty situated from the widow with i've
mites: and ne principe a3d the man MI
announced J. were Published and hera.ied
clear around the g.ohe. In the first il.
stance there vas oEiv = twopennV halo.
and in the other miliioa-do'' ar nalo. and
the biz ha.o won. II caana. IL par Of
our purpose 10 cain tha' the l.lrst.'nl.
>cotchman j. not Just rs charitable ~ the
inconspicuous Iewess We are only claim.
ing that the reflector that Won frame
around the lamp IS no par; Of the lamr
and certainly no part OF the blaze that the
burning oil sustains.
Ii would be interesting to see the com,
motion that would nave been excited over
her there in the temple had 4 hear; as
sweet and beautiful IL the Lord saw her
heart TO he. not been held under tho l:mi-
tations OF unCcncrous circumstances. and
had il been within her means TO do all that
her heart promp,ed-n other words. had
the conditions under which she lived been
wide and open enough 10 match her own
personal nobility Most people live III a
very small world: they are in il and they
have TO stay in H. Influences hereditary.
and prov:den,:al if YOU please. have built
around them an environment c'osc aud i'm
prisonIag: possessed OF hearts and intcl'
rence .arger han the sphere that despctic
circumstances permit them 10 fill Some
times u NAV I've due TO physical debility:
sometimes Il comes a. the result Of those
untoward conditions in early lie that pre-
vented the discipline OF personal powers
and gracos. certainly possessed. hit sui
iicient'y cultivated to make them a lad
and servlceah.c potency. Such ones are all
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