Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1905-04-08

She was selfish; she was Just mean ana
contemptibly selfish. You could not
understand her actions until your moth
er took you in a side room and said:
MAY, l am sorry that you and Helen
cannot play happily together. But you
must be very patient with your cousin.
Remember she is an only child. Re
member mt home everything she wants
Is given To her, and no one ever crosses
her. You must be patient with her,
my daughter. She has been spoiled,
and she is not alone to be blamed for
it."
The rich man may not be all to blame
for being selfish. AS the eastern camel
goes swinging along with his head high
up and cares not what little child he
may kick in the street, so the rich man
may not be entirely at fault because
he treads upon the rights of others. He
cannot look at the world through ordi-
nary eyes. The world toadies to him
and crngcs and fawns over him until
after awhile he is apt to think he is the
smartest. noblest. kindest, sweetest
being who ever lived. He begins to
think his blood different from all other
blood and his life better than all other
lives. Now. rich men. amid all the
sycophants fawning and cringing about
you. l want to tell you clearly and en-
phatically that God has not one code of
morals for the rich and another for the
poor. You and must bow to the same
rules of Justice and kindness and gen.
tleness and forgiveness and love in our
dealings with our fellow men. The
needles eye is low door. The low
door means that we must bend to God
1t Is a narrow door. The narrow door
means that we must be Just and true to
those with whom we come In contact
In the walks of daily life.
The Spoiled Child.
Let me digress here a moment and
speak few words in reference to
spoiled women. do not believe there
are as many spoiled men as spoiled
women. Men, as q rule. have not as
great 4 chance to be spoiled down at
the store as some women have to be
spoiled I'm the home. They would be-
come Just as spoiled IL they had the
chance. But the women! Oh. how
many of them are spoiled in the home!
Did you ever stop to think that great
deal of the so called nervous troubles
of this world among women are simply
due to fits of temper? The young girl
grows up as spoiled child in her ia
TIERS house. Then she marries. She
boasts that no one has ever been able
to govern her. She is right She will
not even govern herself. Then, when
something goes wrong in the home, as
a married woman she scolds and sulks
and refuses to eat and to sleep. She
cries and goes on until she works up a
few spasms OF hysteria and physically
becomes as rigid as board. l have
been I'm many homes as pastor and
friend. have seen there many wOm-
en- said TO he nervous wrecks who were
not nervous as you or might become
nervous from OverwOrk. They were
nervous simply because they let their
tempers as spoiled children get the
better of them. Many nervous women
could be cured of their hysteria IL
some one could give them a good,
wholesome rebuke and put them to
bed, as mothers punish their children
and then put them to bed IL they did
wrong. The symbol Of the camel as
applied to the rich man in reference
to his meannesses toward his fellow
men might also be applied to many so
called nervous women who let their
tempers get the better of them merely
because they are spoiled children. or
course in making this sweeping state
ment / am not saying that all nervous
people are evil tempered, but some Of
them and many of them certainly are.
But as l see these richly laden CAM
els coming over the hillsides toward
the shut gates of the Jerusalem walls
i see skulking in the distance other
forms They are the robbers and the
thieves and the highwaymen. They are
the murderers who for one roll of cloth
would be willing to cut a mans throat.
They are the same kind of bloodthirsty
human demons as were those pirates
who were supposed to have captured
the sailing vessels in which the beauti-
full TheodOsia, wife of Governor Aston
of South Carolina and daughter of the
famous Aaron Burr, sailed to meet her
father in New York. Rumor tells us
that this beautiful woman. with her
hands tied behind her back, was COM
PEELED to walk the plank that her cap
tors might possess her wardrobe. SO
these dark figures skulking behind on
the oriental hillsides are the robbers ~
ing in wait for their prey. If these mer
chantmen hesitate one hour in unload
ing their camels and In making them
go through the eye of the needle. down
these miscreants will swoop. They will
slay the owners and carry away the
goods as rich spoils
Dangerous Road.
If these two merchants had been only
humble peasants. if they had been go
ing afoot or astride n cheap four foot
ed beast of burden, such as Mary. the
mother of Jesus. rode when Joseph, the
carpenter, was taking her down to