The Olneyville times. (Olneyville [Providence, R.I.]) 1887-1917, 1912-06-28

he healed the man with the withered
hand, to which they also objected
saying: ''Is it lawful to heal on the
Sabbath day." that they might accuse
him. Jesus replied with the simple
illustration of the sheep in a pit and
closed by asking, 'How much then is
a man better than a sheep?"
Men and women are such poor
judges of values that they are easily
deceived. Merchants deceive their
customers with imitation silks, wools
and all manner of grocery products.
The milkman can water the milk and
escape detection except by the in
spector's test. Frenzied finance takes
millions of dollars from the pockets
of the poor. A flaming ad. in the paper
draws people to California, Cripple
Creek, and the Klondike for gold. Men
leave their families without a living,
breaking their promise to maintain
wife and children, and leave to follow
a will-o'-the-wisp vision of gold. Some
of them never return. All these things
show the fickleness and shallowness
of human judgment when it comes to
the estimate Of values.
In any daily paper one may find quo.
tations Of the value of cattle, sheep
hogs, etc, bA~t not Of the value of a
man. On the farm the shepherd care
fully protects his sheep A lamb,
born on a cold, rainy, spring day is
wrapped in a blanket, placed by the
kitchen fire; chickens hatched, are
put in baskets, carefully guarded and
fed, but, alas, the spiritual care Of a
man is neglected. If man poisons
your sheep. he will be arrested but a
hundred saloonkeepers might give
your boy drink and not one OF them
be held responsible. They may rob
your boy of his money and manhood
until he loses his employment and is
compelled to sleep in a ten-cent lodg,
ing house with nothing to eat but
what he begs, but they go unmolested
and their business is protected by the
law; while If your boy should commit
a crime. when under the influence OF
the liquor he got from one Of them, he
would be punished, and the saloon
keeper would escape. Poisoning sheep
sheep Is not protected by law. How
much then is a man better than a
sheep"
Sweat shops cost the slow death OF
thousands because of the greed for
gold. A dollar is worth more than a
human life. Accidents frequently
happen because Of the pure careless
ness on the part of some one who ut.
terly failed to consider the value of a
man.
Gods estimate of the value of men
can only be the correct one, because
the one who makes a thing is the one
who knows it's worth. The value of a
sheep is estimated in the market OF
the world, so God estimates the value
of a man by the market of heaven.
Jesus estimated that If you put a soul
into one scale Of a balance, and the
whole world into the other, the soul
would outweigh the world. For this
reason the soul cannot have an earth.
ly value. because ii would take more
than the whole world to buy just one
soul.
Jesus looked at the Pharisees' view
OF things by which they estimated
their opinions, and wondered at their
shallow judgment in the estimation OF
the value OF a man; so he must do to-
day as he sees people estimating the
relative values OF things they secure.
and OF the Improbable way In which
they spend their time. People take a
fancy TO some bric-a-brac and pay a
foolish price for 1t, but in year or
two transfer II TO the attic and then
to a secondhand store 10 make room
for something else which has caught
their fancy. Do you remember how
many things you discovered the last
time you moved which you had once
priced. but which you had come to
call rubbish" and how you remarked,
II wish had the money back that l
spent on these?" IL was because you
had not placed the proper value on
them when you made your purchase.
When Christ came 10 investigate the
condition OF the human race and see
what he could do to ameliorate the
suffering caused by sin, he did not
waste his time on triies by trying to
create better environment nor patch
up the weaknesses OF men.
There are doubtless few Christians
but what feel from time TO time that
the money they spend here and there
to crafty passion or fancy is worse
than wasted. There is only one way
to correct this habit and that is to ASK
God TO give you the true vision OF
values as they have been estimated in
the commercial rating Of heaven.