The Newtown bee., 1905-12-29

Many other men and women walk
New York streets and these 60 not to
saloons and brothels but to we'll order
ed and cultured centerS, to cOnven-
| tions, to art galleries, to churches.
Here walks a well to do business man,
faultlessly attired, polite, atfahle, yet
he has care of which the world does
not know, temptation of which we
are not partners. There is struggle
going on inside as intense and as aw-
full as that in the bar-room where a
| man was killed-only God knows the
difference between the coarse and VIC
lent quarrel that resulted in murder
and the tumult of a soul clothed With
a refined body. Here walks man in
clerical attire, everybody sees that he
is clergyman, and because that is s.
one looks for lines expressive of a gen.
tile profession and they are found Of
| ten, but only God knows the heart,
what Of self-seeking, cowardice and
ought to reign as in my breast, humil-
ity. courage, freedom, Tue smaller
faith, the lack Of sympathy. the with
drawing from duty where is expected
largest faith and greatest heroism is
to Our Heavenly Father the great
cause of sorrow. Here walks man in
New York or any village or town, is it
you or l? In way we care not for
criticism, we know that we cannot
please everybody all the time, but
CONSISTENCY ASKS WHAT is THERE OF
PROGRESS
and effort underneath the respecta bill
ity which we find in ours while we are
honest? Consistency asks you, What
makes you different in principle from
any criminal if you are breaking any
law Of God: What are you doing
with your mind, with your heart? Is
there slavery there as enslaving as
the love of strong drink? Are you con-
tent to take to the next world your
personality as it is, and do you think
God will accept any differently one
who opposes in spirit and in principle
from one who is fragrant in both
physical and moral debauch? l am
not judging anyone-the great ques-
tiOn is, "What shall | do to be Saved:"
When my turn comes to leave this
world l shall easily forget every care
and trial which came to me as l Strug-
gled to live and | shall think forever
afterwards not OF the little chickering's
and poutings of humanity-I shall
forget these and think forever of God S
righteousness, Indignation of sin and
His great vindication of noble effort
what shall do to be saved?" Eter-
nifty is ahead and perhaps most Of life
gone. Roosevelt probably drank the
beer; God knows whether or not he
had right to do sO-yet that is not a
consistent questions; what are you do
ing to make impossible or to assure to
yourself eternity:
Diamonds and fine clothes are very
acceptable to the eye and to the finer
tastes Money and honor are what
we need and seek; fixed opinions and
pleasures in them are natural. We
want something upon which to stand,
of course A comparison between our
selves and f1agrantly immoral world
is bound to be in our favor. However,
for purpose asks: What is the atti-
tude, what is the use or abuse? Does
it make any difference in results if !
am killed by the old-time method Of
stoning or if die in the electric chair,
or modern way? Does it make any
difference in results if lose my balance
as to clothes or money, or liquor or
knowledge? May not one lose his soul
forever in a vain, foolish extravaganza
that heaps only upon the back Orin to
the stomach, that makes to forget
everybody and everything else? May
not one lose his soul in cramping
method and growing habit of thought
50 that more and more the glasses of
vision become darkened and untrue?
May not one lose bis soul forever as
be tries to save his life, to keep it, to
cherish it, to be comfortable in it, to
the exclusion of many interests, of
many sympathies; God-given privileges
and commands? May not one be lost
in continued SmallneSS, continued pri-
walton, continued darkness as easily,
as finally, as hopelessly, as in the other
ways that we attack so often and SO
inconsistency?
There is a home or two in this town,
and in every town, where the parents
by living on miserlY basis
HAVE RUINED THE PROSPECTS OF
THEIR CHILDREN.
The home is bare, nothing elevating
ever goes into it aud what goes out
never reaches far. These are reputed
ly good Offensive say they do no
harm, we call them stingy and drop it
there-but not SO with God. These
people are doing harm-a great deal of
and on that basis, the drinking man
or the improvident is not more &C.
cOuntable.
How inconsistent in Judgment, in
action is the whole world. We dis
like in others what we sanction in our
selves; we condemn others and hate
hem, too, because they are enjoying
what we want ourselves; we herald
abroad we try to lay bare every fail
ing and mistake Of another in spite of
the warning, which we know is fair,
that we shall be judged even as we
judge. We try to Condemn few
while the rest S ay free though alike
guilty in kind tsnot in quantity. We
always arrest Cinnamon who play
fan tan;' we do not arrest our
citzenS-there is gambling every
night in almost every hotel in
America. We have passed judgment
upon many evils, yer we go along yes
terday, to-day and tomorrow, and to-
morrow still, little changed in our own
lives: which are not perfect The police
man arrests drunk or breaks into a
dlsnrderly house; when off du y he
drinks, be frequents these same
houses. The detective is shrewd to
unravel case of diShOnOr; his own Ii e
if full Of evil desire and treachery. The
fashionable woman criticiSeS dirt and
coarseness; she ought to be made to
know her own extravaganza and cold