Milford chronicle., 1903-09-04
God Abhors Lying.

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God AbhOrs Lying.
Fire insurance adjusters meet with
the same kind of lying. The man who
has solemnly declared to the county
commissioners that his personal hold
ings are of little value discovers after
they have been burned that they were
worth a fortune and demands that the
fire insurance company compensate
him on that basis. False estimates and
fraudulent misrepresentation, whether
made in the assessors Office or to fire
insurance adjuster or by the merchant
to the customer or the customer to the
merchant, all belong to the same cate
CORY. They are lies. They are the ut
terances of false tongues. and God
has recorded his adherence and his
condemnation of all intentional verbal
Misrepresentation. Whether behind
store counter or over church pulpit let
your answers be yea, yea, and nay,
nay" \ lie is just as black and fatal
tossed as a shuttlecock between the
two battledoors of buyer and seller as
though it were the deathknell of an
AEanias and a Sapphira falling at the
feet of an apostolic denunciatOr.
Falsehoods in the political world:
Oh, how many! Like the seventeen
year locusts. they never entirely depart
from a region. They, however, swarm
most at certain seasons of the year.
They are especially numerous and
virulent at a municipal or state or
presidential election. The ballot box
is their footstool. \ national colven-
ton to nominate president is their
glOr;hcation. Political falsehOOd will
take the record of the purest and best
public man that ever lived and abso-
lutely bedaub it over with scandals
and false accusations. They lied about
Washington and jefferson and John
Quincy Adams and Lincoln and Hayes
and Garfield and Mckinley. But,
though the concocters and utterers of
political falsehoods may never tire Of
blackguarding and misrepresenting our
public men. the acme of meanness is /
only reached when, without just cause,
they drag into the political mire the
wives and the children of the men
whom they would indirectly attack. In
this generation the family of any pub |
lie man is never able. like Caesars |
wife, to live above suspicion. All. then, /
l wonder not that some of our public /
men become bitter and lose their faith |
in mankind. l wonder not that many |
a public man is tempted to carry his I
political hatreds down to the grave. /
When Andrew Jackson was very old |
man he wished to join the church and .
be baptized at her affairs. When he ap- /
peared before the church officers the .
asked him this question, Gen
eral, before you come into our fellow /
ship will you forgive all your political
enemies as you would have Christ for
give you" Yes answered Jackson.
what! ALP" The old ex-president
thought a moment. Then the aged
who once defended New Or
leans raised his head, and, with flash
ing eye and scornful lip, replied. Yes,
all except the merciless scoundrels who
have lied about my dead wife" God
pity the honest man who in public life
S having his heart gashed open by the
attacks made upon the characters Of
his loved ones. Truly, then, as at the
ross, an ungrateful people are offering
lin crown of thorns instead of
.rOwn of treasured gold
Un4ruth Is COwardIy.
A lie is a lie, against whomsoever
old. A lie is especially cowardly when
t is told against public men. especially
.owardly because for the most part the
'ictims must writhe and twist under
he insinuating and poisonous attack
md suffer in silence. The nature of
lie is not changed by Harvesting it to a
Qualifying adjective, nor is a political
ie less heinous than other lies A lie
old to besmirch political candidate
# to benefit political party is an Of
ense in the sight of God which will
ave to be accounted for in the day of
Judgment. "All liars'-there are no
xceptions TO this rule-"all liars shall
ave their part in the lake which burn
tn with fire and birthstone, which is
he second DEATH"
Falsehoods in the social world
Why? Because, as David in his haste
rossly declared. "AIl men are Iiars?s
III, no. Because most people would in
and deliberately rob an in
ocent man of his character as sneak