Milford chronicle., 1903-10-09
ErnnlIln,s GoaneI.

Would TINT we might always practice
BENJAMIN Franklin's gospel of modera-
tionl His liberation Of the nonessen-
tials of life was never more grandly
demonstrated than in the last great
public service which he rendered to
his country. When over eighty years
of age he made the peroration or MS
life in pleading for the adoption OF the
constitution of the United States IN
the great constitutional convention
which met in Philadelphia in 1881
He admitted. during his address. that
the constitution under discussion did
not satisfy him in toto. He wanted
one legislative assembly. not two. lie
wanted an executive council. with
the president at the head, instead of all
executive power being vested in one
man. He wanted the president OF the
limited States to serve without salary.
But" said the grand old sage of Phila-
delDhia "the older | grow the more
doubt my own infallibility and the
moro I believe that others may Oc-
coslonally be right. | am not like the
French lady who one day said TO her
sister. = do not know how it happens
/ sister but / meet with nobody but my
self that is always in the right
Therefore. though | may not Ike TINS
] constitution I'm toto. | do feel that II
Is the best for all parties upon when
we could ever agree. And, Mr.. Presi-
dent. cannot help expressing wish
that every member of this convention
who may still have objections TO II
would with me on this occasion doubt
n little of his own infallibility, ana TO
make manifest our unanimity put his
name to this instrument" That plea
of BENJAMIN Franklin is a good eN-
position of what PGurs moderation
means. 1t means giving up Il little IN
order to fit your life into the nonessen-
tial peculiarities Of other people. II
is this useless friction, this useless rub
bing each other the wrong way. this
useless expecting other people to be
like ourselves. instead of all people
irving to bear and fOrbear, that have
caused much-aye, perhaps mosr-oi
the trouble of the world. Let your
kindness. your tolerance, your gentle
ness. your pliabillty be known unto al
men,"
Practice FOrbenrance.
Be patient. in the next place VIII
those people who were born spiritually
blind. because their ancestors. like the
progenitors Of the blind fish in Ken
tucky's Mammoth cave, passed then
lives in total darkness. Be pati&
with those men in whose veins flows
the tainted blood of generations upoE
generations of sinners.
Blood should be thicker than water
Blood should be a potent factor in thu
making or unmaking Of a man. | an
in no sense a fatalist. am not one o
those Indifferent. never may care mel
who try to excuse their sloth and lazl
ness by advocating the doctrine
What is to be will be. and what i
not to be will not be!' ! am not fool
lsh enough to think that "a man cal
be born to be eternally destroyed. n
. matter how he may try to prevent
: or what he may do or say" But al
one Of those believing people who ar
ready to grant that. by reason Of tn
r operation OF the laws Of heredity, 1t
harder for some people to do righ
r than for others. and to grant also tina
e because Of heredity. it is easier fo
I some to do wrong than for other
I Never was a more sensible salutatio
I given than that with which King SAT
= accosted the young shepherd boy. D'
e vid. Whose son art thou. youn
: manY' II David was the son Of Jess
!. the Bethlehemite. Saul had n right
g expect that the lad would grow up
d be a good man. II he was the son
e bad father the king had right
y be wary Of such offspring. Blot
b thicker than water? OF course it
b All Of us should believe what our ey
r everywhere behold. Baldwin appI
n do not grow upon fall pippin trees u
a less ingrafted. In the spiritual as W.
e. as in the vegetable and animal kin
le doms like always produces like"
le The hereditary law in all its dine
ID ent aspects being agreed upon. wi
il should you not be patient in your de-
ings with those whose ancestors we
Or not good and true and pure Christiai