The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-11-08
RETR|BUT|ON IS
SURE TO FOLLOW
SIN, He AYERS
The Rev. W. W. YOungson, OF
East Orange, breaches Elo-
auently on Humans Career.

Sneakins on Poetic Justice the
second sermon in the series of three
on the general subject, Does a Mar
Get out Of the World What He Puts
Into TIP the Rev. William Wallace
Youngson delivered an interesting dis
course last night in the Park Avenue
Methodist Episcopal Church, East Or
ange. of which he is pastor. he SAID III
Part:
THE story of Hannah tells us OF a
man who was caught in his own trap
His foreign origin was no bar TO MS
advancement in Persia. He was
shreHd enough to make himself APP
parently indispensable to the king. lie
became a postmaster in court f1attefy
and SO ingratiated himself in the favor
of the king that he became the real
lower behind the throne. But HamaE
was one bow short. Mordecai, the
Jew, refused to recognize hinl, and,
although he became secretary of state,
like many other men lie could not
stand prosperity. He lost his head. He
thought he was the whole o and
that the king would do whatever he
asked him, and when Mordecai failed
to bow he Immediately planned the
destruction of this contemplate Jew
and of all his desplsed race, but there
in Hannan overreached himself and the
tide turned.
There is peculiar satisfaction iE
watching men get their just deserts.
David and Adonibezek came to realizs
as / have done. so God hath requited
me- Walter Scott believed in moral
retribution. George Eliot has dedi-
Gated her greatest volume. 'Romola.
to the study of the evolution of sin,
and, in the story of the orphaned child,
Tito forcibly illustrates this great
law. Byron in 'Childe Harold gives
US his testimony: The thorne which !
have reap'd are of the three l planted;
they have torn me and l bleed. l
should have known what fruit would
spring from such a seed So Haman,
swinging from the moose he had made
for Mordecai, the Jew. is one of the
finest pictures of r~etribution in his
tory.
Blu retribution is but one lesson.
There is a still deeper truth. 1t is
fundamental in nature. Byron tells US
that what a man gets out Of nature
depends upon what he carries to her.
So III The SptIiA Ttdiil We get Oul VI
the world what we put into it. The
universe is perfectly balanced and re-
sponsive. Not a sound is lost. 1t is
a vast whispering gallery. The notes
NE sound forth are the notes which
oone back again. Stand on a certain
spot in the great tabernacle in Salt
Lake City and the faintest whisper is
reverberated. So, too, the sin in the
garden has been manifesting itself
through the centuries. The pendulum
swings from one extreme to another,
and the higher the possibility Of as
cending the greater the possibility of
falling.
"Haman could not complain. God
was not cruel or unkind. He could not
make n law by which to secure us
honor. and another to keep us from
paving the penalty of violating His
laws. The very law which landed
Haman on the gallows could have
helped him climb to attitudes OF holi-
ness, but Haman was building a eibbet
In HIS heart when he should have been
constructing a throne. and thus get
ting out Of the world just what he
brought to it. experienced the force of
the everlasting dictum that with what
measure yet mete 1t shall be measured
to you again."
STAR WANT ADS BRING RESULTS.