The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-06-17
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A PLAIN, EASY LESSON.

When any person or collection of per
sons insists that others must obey the
law, they should necessarily obey the
law themselves. Otherwise, there is nc
| foundation for them to stand upon
For. if lawbreaker calls upon any
other offender TO obey the law, the
| inevitable, the just the conclusive, the
overwhelming reply is, 'Obey the law
yourself, before coming with such an
admouition to me. As it is written
in the first of the gospels:
Or how wilt thou say to thy brother.
Let me pull out the mote out of thine
eye; and. behold. beam is In thine own
eye?
Thou hypocrite, first cast ont the beam
out OF thine own eye. and then shalt thou
see clearly to cast out the mote out of
thy brothers eye.
And further along, in the same Cos
pei, there is this added condemnation
of the hypocrites:
But woe unto you, scribes and Phari-
sees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the king
dom OF heaven against men, for ye neith-
er 60 In yourselves, neither suffer ye them
that are entering TO go In.
Woe unto you scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites for ye devour widows houses,
and for pretense make long prayer;
damnation
Woe unto you. scribes and Pharisees,
hypocrites, for We compass sea and land
TO make one proselyte: and when he Is
made. ye make him two-fold more the
child of hell than yourselves.
In this lesson is seen anew the ever
applicable force and timeliness Of the
Scripture. 1t condemns in more scath-
ing words than one is accustomed to
employ, the acts and words of those
who, guilty themselves, condemn their
fellow.men for guilt that is even their
own
And note the pertinence of the speci-
ications; "Devour widows houses!'
How stingingly Mrs. Raleigh could ap-
ply this scripture! Note, also, the per-
version which the hypocrite works upon
the proselytc. making him twofold
more the child of hell than himself,
No one can fail to see the fitness of
this text in it's description of certain
writers and speakers who are the chos
en- mouthpieces or the hypocritical,
avaricious, brutal, despotic arrogant,
robbing, reasonable, faith~breaking,
lecherous. defiant, revolving gang of
CHASTITY blasphemers who are in arro-
giant domination over a helpless and
humble people whose trust they abuse
and whose earnings they absorb TO
spend in their commercial and political
and in the satiation OF their
bestial lusts.
What a hideous mockery it is for this
gang of law.defers to call
upon others to obey the law; for this
busy nest of stinging scorpions to preach
amity and good will: for this abomina-
ole, conscieuceless priestcraft to attempt
to hold others to the law Of cander, or.
der, and accountability 10 right codes
Of morality and good conduct! When
The devil g advocate arises to speak in
of these hypocritical devourers,
then all know that the decencies are to
be set aside, morality Knocked, God de-
fed, Christianity spat upon, and hui
manity outraged. And that is the
plain, unvarnished lesson Of the tri
lmph cf hypocrisy, Inst, greed. and
awlessness II ofTends Heaven and de-
iles the earth 1t leads men down TO
lell, and shuts the door of hope. Re
generation for them is a cloak, piety a
sham, and goodness a sinking pre-
.ense.