The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1906-04-24

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Judgment begins al home we aIl
need to remember that man form
"a souls alone % y evil speaking. that
the ideal man mo endure to read
"a SANDER or listen L. IT.. mucu less
TO speak one. Great is the power of
the tongue. II il a little member but
it is Like the rudder. that turns the
whole ship and controls the voyage.
Therefore avoid harsh speech and un-
fair criticism.
TO Honor His Own Word as if Hi
Gods"
But the perfect man is the truth
ful man. Truth is to manhood what
tcmper is TO the word. what light l.
to the sunbeam: what purity is To the
gold. God is truth, Christ speak.
truth, lives truth. and no liar can live
where God ana Christ are any more
than darkness can live WIN light.
The perfect man ehOid no adnixture
Of n ~falsehood When
conscience lights her torch ana goes
searching through all the corridors Of
mans soul untruth found there seems
like refuse on the parlor floor. like
cobwcbs and dust on the great win
dOWS. once a man stands forth,
crowned with absolute truth. no words
can describe his grandeur. Walter
Scott makes Jeanie Deans tell the
truth, ever thouph it break her heart
and her fathers, and something in as
Uses w 10 acclaim Jeahle Deans as
almost ivine
Not an hour ago / heard an English
! friend relate an incident well known
in the history Of Yarmouth. There
dWelt & young husband, Who h0nored
his word rs if his Gods. He promis-
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wolves. trying to track him down.
Then the soldiers came and took him
away /" prison.
When = few, weeks had gone they
tried him: hui when in the hour be
fore he was hanged he coerced his
iips into silence. To save the mother
of his unborn child. one iaV they
placed the babe in the girls arms, and.
Labbling on. she tcld the story that
already the people had begun to
suspect. From tnat da, to this the
rpup!e have stood with uncovered
heads beside the grave of thc best man
that Yarmouth Ger had-onc who
h0nored his own word as if his Gods.
Having given truth, he asked it not
back. Greater love hath no mar than
this, that a man lay down his life for
his friend. Young man. practice
truth-Speaking. Be stern with your
self. truth is a corIespondence be-
tween ones words and the reality that
they represent. In wit and humor.
for the moment, exaggeration is per
missible. But nothing is more i'm
portant than the habit of strict CORE
spondence between the statement and
the fact. Not to overstate, not to I'M
derstate, but to evenly and exactly
state-that is the ideal. And bless
ed is he whose word is as good as his
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kept by the angels of God.
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But man INes not atone ne ioNe9'
and Is beloved IN return. Eden pc
SINS with Eve. comes Nheh
I've comes ana goes "hen Eve dtpdi.o.
Love Is the great ourllei, Notiiin7
SuaIuS SHuIir ioi,d = tha
CUT N iHS SooN
=, AZ odncation To serve her is q ner-
nat,Ial low TO live with her and die
for har is = daily banouet and a never
ending feast. What woman admires
and Wants men pursue and achieve.
When she admires a soldier, he will
cbarnap a sword and forge an armOry.
When she wants purple and crimson,
to wnar and sweet yiands to eat he
will ransack the earth for the treas
,1rac she asks. He mounts on her
wings He sinks when she descends.
It Is not : chance thing that men say