The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-07-30

sins and. cloaked, in himself, worse
sins than those he saw and condemned
in others.
That's what's the matter right now.
/ We look at other peoples sins through
| telescopes but at our own sins through
smoke glasses-glasses that minify
instead of magnifying. The man who
| runs a livery stable and hires out
| his teams on Sunday says, these Sun
day excursion trains ought to be stop
ped" while the men who run the
trains are equally Us decided, in their
own righteous minds, that it is very
wicked. to say nothing of it's cruelty,
to be driving poor dumb beasts all
over the country on Sunday. The man
who hires a horse and buggy and
j.drives, through heat and sand, fifteen
or twenty miles. on Sunday morning
to preach, thanks his God, while he
rides along, behind tired, painting,
horse, that he is not such sinner
as that other man who went to his
appointment on the traini while the
man on the train wonders, as Inc
sweeps by the man in the buggy, whip
| ping his horse to make time, why peo-
| pie win be so sinful and cruel as
to drive hired horses over bad roads
and through the heat instead of going
on the train.
/ used to know a preacher who
| thought it was all right to hire
! horse and drive to his appointment,
| but it was outrageously sinful to ride
on the train. One Sunday evening he
had to- preach in q neighboring viii
/ lage. The train would have taken him
| to his appointment at the right time;
| but he was opposed to riding on sun
| day trains. He went to livery stable
for team, but the livery mans son
was the only driver that could go, and
| no n
school if he went He went however,
and the snow commenced falling and
| the weather turned intolerably cold,
so that the little fellow came we'll
nigh freezing. The train ran past
them when about midway the journey,
and the boy, with chattering teeth,
asked the, preacher why he didn't
make the trip on the train, which
would have been quicker and more
comfortable.
20, my son, that would have been
sinful, riding on the cars on Sun
day.
! II think it's sight more sinful and
| a sight worse to ride on buggy,
cold day like this, and l had to miss
my Sunday school too
| But, my son, the appearance OF
thing must always be considered.
People seeing us going along in bug
|
| going to church; but, if l was riding
ON train they might think | was
sinner"
IF God knows you amt a sinner,
does it make any difference what peo-
| pie Think" asked the boy.
Don't ask too many questions. my
son, I'm thinkingn over my sermon.
Being thus reproved, they logged
along, the little boy blowing his cold
| fingers and thinking what made the
difference between riding on hired
| buggy with a freezing boy driving,
and riding on a car with everybody
comfortable.
1 knew an old money lover who
shaved every note he could lay his
hands upon, and. not unfrequently
distressed men who could not, pay
UP the interest promptly. He was
the worst kind of a Pharisee. His
creed was, pay your debts and keep
the Sabbath day holy; and he boast
ed, in almost every conversation, that
he did both.
One day he ran against the wrong
man, as the following dialogue will
show After he had just said for a
third or fourth time Il pay all my
debts" the man asked him If he had
paid his last years rent; that is, paid
to God, in any way. what he thought
| it was worth, to him, to live in this
beautiful world; asked him If he had
paid his taxes; that is paid to God.
i'm any way as much as he thought
the mercies and temporal blessings,
he had enjoyed, were worth to MIN,
asked him if he had paid the Dlggest
debt of all debts-giving to God
heart entirely consecrated to His ser
vice--in other words done all he could,
with the means he possessed, to spread
the Kingdom of Christi"
questions
Il owe no man anything; / let every
body attend to his own business, and
7 attend to mine, and above everything
else | keep the Sabbath day holy.
Your business is buying notes and
money lending" | suppose, said the
gentleman.
ut isl he replied.
"And l suppose all your notes bear
,, interest?''
"They do
Your money then is doing work,
and making prof1ts?"
Certainly"
What rate of interest do you re-
quire ~ 81
six per cent per annum'
How many days make yearY "
"Three hundred and sixty-five, of
course
eHow many working days in
Year," .sa5i sfs2
~ About three nundfeu anu WE'VE
l think
Does your money draw interest for
365 or 312 days in the year,"
Draws every day, of course.
$50 you make your money work
for you on Sunday but you say
must not let my mule pillow for me
on Sunday. Id better sell my mule.
! put him in money and let my money
plow hadn't ~
Yes, 1 expect if we were to look
carefully into the matter we'd hnd