The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-05-17

Evil-doing does not pay, is not re-
munerative from worldly point of
view. This appears from the reception
accorded Judas Iscariot by the Jewish
churchmen when he confessed his
crime and returned the silver. Their
reply was not encouraging: What
is that to us? See thou to that" Of
its kind, there is no finer stroke in the
Bible. 1t hits off to a hair the man of
hard, brutal fiber, and is a capital IL
lustration of the brutality OF fact"
The priests had gotten all out of Judas
they wanted, now he must shift for
himself. AS one sucks the juices of a
delicious fruit and filings the rind to
the garbage, SO they treated unhappy
Judas. So long as they needed his Of
fees their bearing was, doubtless, oily
and obsequious then they could not
evince their appreciation Of his inyalu-
able serbices. But when all is over,
the arrest made, the trial impending,
the prisoner secure, how changed their
attitude! There is permanent signif-
canoe in this episode. He who should
attempt to inventory human character
and leave out selfishness, heartlessness,
ingratitude, would make but an i'm
perfect map of human nature. That
poor creature deserves pity who has
fallen into the meshes Of those who
are destitute of principle, of conscience
and OF magnanimity SO long as one
is in possession of any commodity or
quality that may be Of service to
thoroughly selfish person, all goes
well; but when there is nothing in you
longer to make you important to any
body, that is a critical hour in your
history Surely 1t must have been
narrowing for Judas to hear the priests
accost him so rudely after all he had
done for them. They told him virtu-
ally to "go about his business" That
was too bad. 1t must have cut him
deeply to have those time-serving, Gym
ical men shake him off with cool in
difference after their close connec-
ton But he had his twenty dollars,
his thirty pieces of silver, and could
not complain. That was the bargain
Yet he needed more. He was lonely,
friendless, hopeless, distracted. He
had sold himself for twenty dollars.
and when he discovered that he was
worth more, he was informed that
that was his affair" and that he must
make the best out of his circumstances.
But this is the way of the world.
Moreover, there lies solemn and per-
ennial truth here The day is coming
when the whole economy of this lower
world, its materials for creature COM
forts, it's wealth, its honors, It's fiat
terry, its success, It's valuables Of every
description, all its joy-giving and
mirth-producing capacities, will say to
every soul Of man. as the priests said |
to Judas, the arrangements between
us are at an end, the objects contem-
plated have been met, our relation
now terminates" and when that crisis
comes there is no son Of time but will |
want something substantial to fall |
back upon. Forlorn, avaricious, apos- |
tate Judas is type of men and women
who live for this mercenary world,
and find 1t losing game Men enter
into compacts Of all sorts to push
themselves along, and oftentimes end
with the mortifying discovery that it
costs more to reap the crop than the
grain is worth in the market. Judas
lived long enough TO find out what
there is In man, in money. in tempo
rary success disconnected from lofty
and a noble purpose. Jesus
Christ rose from the dead on the third
lay. and built the Christian church
1pon that fact as a keystone. But