The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-04-02

M Oney IN The banks WlSH ScnL slOsOhnVllic.5
General Dwell in command Mt Richmond
ordered that such stores OF cotton AMI
tobacco as could not be removed, should
be destroyed. The City Council ordered
that all liquors In the warehouses should
be poured into the cutters.
AT night the CITY was red with fire.
Some OF the fires were thought to have
our sentences, let US proclaim an ans
nesty.
There are times OF public good will
when nmnesties are proclaimed. prisoners
are set free, wretchcd birds are let out
OF. their cages. * People remember that
there nre fcllows,cn7Tto have been walt.
ing since a Long time for a kind word,
and they are willing to give them that
Kind word. Nations have their nmncs-
lea-let individuals also have theirs.
Oh, II tho churches could also have
their amncsties. Lam an essentially rcli-l
gious man.. was born religious, and
will die the same; but j am compelled TO
say to you, to be perfectly truthful that
the most atroclous injustlccs nrc pions
finjustices.
Therefore, give even greater care 10
your Judgments onrcligious matters than.
to those on civil or moral grounds. When
you are disposed to pcty&or prayer. and
at the same time you pass juugmcnt,i
take carc--it is far more dangerous than
all the rest. II ordinary injustice is a
simple mnlady, pious injustice is an IN
fictitious disease.
Guard against executing your fellow
men piously. l would prefer that you
should execute thom brutally, like wild
savagcs. than to see you destroy them
under a Christianly guse. | prefer u
sentence that is roared out like the roar
| OF "a lion than the one that Is hypocriti-
cally clothed in a prayer orr lamentn-
lton.
All, II the churches and religious lnsti-i
buttons could proclaim an amnesty TO
| their victims; IL the judges who have
laid the impress Of the cross upon the
seals by which they consccrate Their
Judgments, could break these seal IS wit n.
out fearing to break, charity, stone
would be removed from the conscience
Of the world: VIC would breathe more
| freely, as nations breathe on the day
| OF an amnesty, when hands meet, whhn
old crimes arc nlrdoned, when an In
! spiration passes over the Garth coming
from on high, anpeasing resentment ana ans
| awakening goodwill. H 4. .s
Amnesty! Amnesty! Power Of forgive
| ness! Cearness of soul; disposition to-
ward mercy; desire not TO condemn
any ono definitely; afear; a great rear:
n terror OF committing injustice; a terror,
or using one's soul to weigh the soul Q {.
others and to condemn them. May God
teach lis all those things! May the sim
plo word of the One who was Divine
simplicity be holly carried out by ls.i
His counsel is at tho i,elghtFof n child's.
head, yet It is also at the height OF the
1 stars. i5a8
II, In spite of all, you wish to judge
! IL YOU fnd 1t Indispensable to sit Y the
| tribunal put Christ as an advocate sspy
1 the side Of the one you arc judging. iie
4 will only have TO look at you 70 lcuc''
| you what you should do. a, al
CHARLES WAGNER &
| ur.ncighbor. The Times Dispatch, II q
recent issue, has u strong and sensible ~,
editorial on ministerial mendlcancy IVY
minister must maintain Ills self-resIect
and must command the RESPECT Of others !,
Thls lie cannot do II lie suffers himself
! ia be regarded rs q pensloller On ltse
/ reluctant bounty of his friends and &ac-
aunintances AT the same time the spor-
! taneous kindness OF the people Tor their
pastor, nanfesting itself IN WAYS " y sthat
arc not vnominnted IN the bond" Is peaa-
j tiful to see and for a pastor, through
4 mistaken and distorted Ideas Of indepen|ll-
once to discourage these, evidences OF at
4 lection. would he unfortulatc. lies nlpat
neither be u lnendcant nor ehprl-Rc-
/ liGlous Herald.
Quite so, We emphasized the fact that
there is a grace OF receiving as we'll as g
grace OF giving.
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/. President Castro evidently has not read
about that famous big stick Governor