The Monmouth inquirer. [volume] (Freehold, N.J.) 1865-1933, 1907-02-21


II know people say am seIhsn. 4
know people say that am mean. But
what can do? wish that might be
able to help others. But If help them
.ssvill only do them an injury. 1t is
batter for every man to learn to help
himself rather than to be helped by his
brothers. The easiest way to make
well man cripple is to give him
crutch. The easiest way to make
lame man well Is to take away his
crutch and compel him to use hts weak
limb. am my neighbours friend and
Gods disciple, although people know 1t
| not"
His Hypocrisy.
My brother. when you try to defend
your sinful, selfish actions by putting
the blame Of your sins upon others, do
you honestly mean that you are telling
the truth? No, you know you are not.
Like the unfaithful servant In the par
able, you are trying to cover up your
tiger claws with sleeps wool. You are
trying to shield your own sins with
tissue of lies. People admire the strong
wing ON which the eagle scars, but
| great preacher took different view of
It's flight. do you see" he said, "yon-
der eagle how it mounts7 Does 1t care
for the ethereal blue or aspire to COM
mune with the stars of the heavens?
Not whit Such airy considerations
have no weight with the bird. And yet
you will not wonder that it scars when
you remember that it thus obtains a
broader range of vision and SO becomes
the more able to provide for its nest.
The bird mounts toward heaven, but IT
always keeps its eyes upon the outlook
for its prey. 1t scars that it may fash
downward with full swoop upon the
object of its desires" So with some
sinful men. With their honeyed words
they seem to be mounting toward the
heavenly blue. They pretend to be liv-
ing an unselfish life. But they are not
mounting thus toward heaven to live
nearer to God. They are mounting
thus in order that they may have wider
range for their depredations. They as
sumo the white, spotless robes of vir-
tue, but their hearts are as black and
as craven as the unfaithful servant of
the parable.
But not only does the worldly wise
man incur loss of property when his
Lord comes and reckons with him. He
loses the society and eternal compan-
ionship of those dear to him. He seems
/ to assume that, no matter how selfish
! ly he may live or what sins he may
commit, he shall be able to live for
ever with the same kind Of good peo-
pie with whom he has associated on
earth. He seemsSto think, because the
Master Of the parable has let him
work side by side with his faithful
servants here for time, that when he
comes back he will still let faithful
servants live side by side with him.
Now, this is not to be. Not only did
the Master take away from his I'M
faithful servant his talent and tear
away his hypocritical pretenses to vir-
tue, but the Master also debarred that
unfaithful servant forevermore asso-
ciating with those who had been faith
full to their trusts.
If you turn to the twenty-fifth chap
ter of Matthew, you win find that
Jesus taught this fact beyond all per-
adventure. After Christ had told the
parable Of the unfaithful servant with
the dramatic power Of a true orator he
suddenly changed his Illustration into
the scene of courtroom. Here is the
open court of the east. Here are the
multitudes OF all ages assembled. There
is the throne upon which God Will sit as
the Divine Judge, who shall pass upon
each mortal life. After each servant
has given an account Of his steward
| ship the Divine Judge will pronounce
the sentence. Listen to the awful ring
of those words: and before him shall
be gathered all nations, and he shall
separate them one from another as
| shepherd divideth his sheep from the
| goats, and he shall set the sheep on his
right hand and the goats on his left"
Oh, yes; there will be an awful sepa-
ration some day! The faithful serv-
ants must be separated from the bad.
That means, "If I do not render good
account of my stewardship, God will
separate me in eternity from living
with those who have been faithful to
their trust"
Oh, unfaithful servants, We pretend
to believe that your mother, your wife.
your daughter, your son, belong to
you? If you do not render true ac-
count Of your stewardship. God will
just as surely take them away from
you as some day he will take away
your money and shatter your hypocrit
| ical pretenses to virtue. Some day God
shall send his death angel into your
home. You may bar and bolt the front
door, but the death angel will come
right in. He will not loiter much in
the dining room or the parlor. He will
ascend the staircase and stop at this
bedroom and that He will look into
one bedroom and there find your old
mother reading her Bible. He win ap-
proach her gentle form and tap her
upon the shoulder and say: Come,
child of God. Come! BY thy illumined
face I know thou hast been faithful
to thy trust" Then he will find your
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