Milford chronicle., 1905-05-26


e much for your spiritual life and is do
. ing so much for the salvation of tn
? world, merely because you do not lik,
! a few members in it?
: Turned Against Church.
2 When l speak to you thus I am moi
talking at random. There are hundred;
: and thousands Of just such people as
{ you who have turned their backs upon
: the church, Gods mightiest agency for
{ doing good, merely because they have
, had an unfortunate experience with
some Of its members The other day
was talking to a noble man. He gives
away hundreds and thousands of dol
lars each year. Within his large mer-
camille establishment he runs a school,
that his girl clerks and his boy clerks
who have to earn a living at the time
they should be in the schoolroom
should not be entirely deprived of an
education. He gives hundreds Of dol
lars annually for the temperance cause.
No man who is trying to do right and
is flung on his back ever appealed to
him for help in vain. Yet that man,
with all his vast influence, has not for
years darkened church doors. Years
| ago there was a church difficulty which
revolved about him and his family.
\ Sad, sad, infinitely sad, that he should
refuse to be one with the church be-
cause Of a bitter grudge he holds
/ against some church members who did
not treat him right! For, in spite of all
he has done. / confidently assert that
the seed he had sown would have null
tiplied a thOusandfOld instead Of, as
now, producing only sixtyfold had he
been working inside Of the church of
God instead Of outside. That man for
years has held aloof from the church
because he cherished resentment
against some Of its members. He dis
Obeyed the injunction of my text, let
not the sun go down upon your wrath"
'Never ask me to be a member of the |
Humane society again." said the wife |
of one Of my elders a short time ago. |
"Why not?" about ten years ago I |
went to one OF their meetings OF all /
the backbitings and censorious criti-
cism ever heard theirs were the
worst" Oh, friend Is such state
ment right? Because Judas betrayed
Christ, is that any reason you should
refuse to be a disciple of Christ? Be
cause last year one of our missionary
leaders or one Of the trustees Of an
orphans home proved a rascal and was
found to be a defaulter is that any
reason we should refuse our aid to-
ward those benefcent institutions? In
your hatred for man you are binding
your eyes to the good you can do to
institutions and great reformatory
You are acting as foolish
ly as the astronomer who would refuse
to climb the stellar ladder of the night
and walk with God amid the infnities
Of space merely because a fly speck
gets upon the lens of his telescope
o man, grow biggerl Widen your
horizon. Do not peevlshly stop your
tramp up the heights of Mount Wash
ington, where you can see all New Eng
land under your feet, merely because
a snarling puppy comes out Of a barn
yard and barks at you as you walk
along the country highway. Do not {
sap your life's usefulness by your
yrudges against a few men. Live for
principles. Live for movements. Live {
FOR institutions. If some people who {
ire working by your side for those !
,auses are not what they ought to be- l
hen do not as a coward desert your
post on the picket lines of the worlds )
great armies in the time of mortal [
combat.
Drop Your Hatreds. s
But there is yet another reason why G
-ou should drop all your hatreds and I
.nimosities as kindlings into the great y
of the setting sun. You l
nay be purified by the divine fires Of a
rouble. But no man was ever able to a
make a brother better and truer and s
Durer by hatred and malice and wrath &
md contempt. You have tried it in Il
he past. You have piled up your ex- d
remarks in great heaps. You p
AVE rolled down great avalanches of Z
You have exhausted your !!
Whole vocabulary and roamed through II
of dictionary pages to find YER I
iage sulphurous enough to depict your
contempt But did it do any II
ood? Have you made your brother love u
ou any better? Have you made him a
ruer or a better man? Have you help Il
d your relationship with him in the Il
east? For fifteen years you have d
ralked down the street and met him p
n an average at least once a week.
'ou stare at him. What good are you j,
by such bitter actions? u
.bsolutely none. Absolutely no good W
esults for yourself Absolutely no "
ood results for him. u
Motive For Crime.
What is the purpose hidden in your =.
cart of harboring up that grudge or m
lalice or hatred against your neigh N
ors or your past friend? One of the ",
rst moves Of a prosecuting attorney lo
/ trying a criminal is to find a motive m
n the crime The district attorney ~
lys to himself "Here is murder COM al
lifted. Who would be benefited by gi
ie death of this victim?" He always =,