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calls she makes some nettlesome re-
mark that stings like brer bush.
When she comes TO visit me / am al
ways glad to welcome her. When she
leaves l am always gladder to see her
go. She Is never with me ten minutes
without making me unhappy. She says
something disaRreeable about my dress,
my house, my children or my husband.
Yes, feel and know that Mrs. So-and-
so Is good woman and that she loves
me. but she has the tantalizing faculty
of always unintentionally saying some
thing mean"
All, yes. All of US have had such
bitter experiences as these from
the irritating pec,iiarities of our
friends. So Paul comes to us today in
the words of my text He says; MY
brother, you must be lenient and gen
tie in your dealings with the faults and
faillngs of others You must be yield
ing, as the wave of an incoming tide
Is yielding. It first breaks itself into
pieces and then crawls up and fits it
self into all the hooks and crannies of
the seashore. You must be yielding In
the nonessentias, so that you can
cause your life to be successfully fitted
into the pecuiarities Of others, as one
factory wheel will fit into the cogs Of
another wheel"
Franl1fn's Gospel.
Would that we might always practice
benjamin Franklm's gospel of modera-
ton! His liberation of the noncssen.
tails 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 Of his
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 lie wanted
ono legislative assembly, not two He
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
United States to serve without salary.
put" said the grand old sage Of Phila-
delphia. the older | grow the more
doubt my own infallihility and the
more l believe that others may oC-
casonally be right. | am not ike the
French lady who one day said to her
sister, 4 do not know how ii happens,
sister but meet with nobody but my
self that IS always in the right
Therefore. though | may not like this
constitution in toto, | do feel that Il
is the best for all parties upon which
we could ever agree. And, Mr.. Prcsi-
dent, | cannot help expressing a wish
that every member of this convention
who may still have objections to II
would with me on this occasion doubt
little Of his own infallhility. ana to
make manifest our unanimity put his
name to this instrument" That plea
Of Benjamin Franklin is a good eX-
position Of what Paul's modcratio
means. 1t means giving up Il little in
order to tit your life into the nonessen-
tial pccullarities of other people. It
Is this useless friction, this useless rub
bling each other the wrong way, this
useless expecting other people to he
like ourselves, instead of all people
trying to bear and forhear that have
caused much-aye, perhaps most-of
the trouble of the world. Let your
kindness, your tolerance, your gentle
ness. your plability be known unto all
men"
Practice Forbcarance.
BE patient, in the next place. with
those people who were born spiritually
blind, because their ancestors, like the
proCenitors of the blind fish in Ken
tucky's Mammoth cave, passed their
lives in total darkness. BE patient
with those men in whose veins flows
the tainted blood Of generations upon
genera tons Of sinners.
Blood should be thicker than water
Blood should be potent factor in the
making or unmaking Of n man. | am
in no sense a fatallst. ! am not one Of
those indi *prcnt never may care men
who try to excuse their sloth and lazi-
ness by advocating the doctrine,
what is to be will be. and what Is
not TO be will not be-" | am not fool
ish enough to think that "a man can
he born to be eternally destroyed, no
matter how he may try to prevent it
or what he may do or shy" But l am
one of those believing people who are
ready to grant that by reason Of the
operation of the laws of heredty, it Is
harder for some people to do right
than for others, and to grant also that,
because OF hcrcdity, 1t is easier for
some to do wrong than for others.
Never was a more sensible salutation
given than that with which King Saul
accosted the young shepherd boy, Da-
vid, "Whose son art thou, young
manT II David was the son of Jesse,
the Bethlehemite, Saul had right to
expect that the lad would grow up to
be a good man. If he was the son of
4 hal other the king had a right to
be wary of such offspring. Blood
thicker than water? or course 1t is.
All Of us should believe what our eyes
everywhere behold. Baldwin apples
do not grow upon fall pippin trees un-
tess ingrafted In the spiritual rs well
rs in the vegetable and animal king
loms like always produces like"
The hereditary law in all its differ
cnt aspects being agreed upon, why
should you not be patient in your deal
lngs with those whose ancestors were
not good and true and pure Christians
ms were your fathers and grandfathers
and great grandparents? Have you a
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