El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-02-21

son for February - is Faith De-
strOyinE Fear.'f-LuIze 12:1-12.
T OOKING out the window Mrs.
Jones sees a neighbor approach
ing and exclaims, There comes
that tiresome Mrs. Smith. simply
A moment later, at the door, she
says, with ELUSIVE smiles, My dear
Mrs. Smith, / am so glad to see you;
and it is so good. of you to come
And that is a picture of what is
fundamentally the matter with a large
part Of the world today. 1t lacks COM
mon. ordinary, straightforward sin
cerity. The wisest of social physicians
once put a label on the disease so
deadly to souls. He called it the
leaven of the Pharisees, Which. is ny
pocrisy" ROttenneSs in the bones of
character. functional diSintegratlOn Of
the soul, palsy Of the motor nerves OF
the Will-au this and more is the es-
sential insincerity which the complex
ity of our social life fosters, and which
Jesus excOriated in the Pharisees.
White lies reveal black spots in
character The reason the judgment
Of mankind condemns a liar is not be-
cause of the lie itself, or its particu-
lar consequences, but because it de-
notes fundamental unsOundness. To be
insincere is to be wrong clear through
TO the center Of things. A hypOcrlUe
is worse than an open and shameless
drunkard or gambler, Tor his OItence
is not one of appetite or peculiar
weakness: it is structural affecting
the stability of the whole life.
What Our StenOEraphers Think.
The business mans stenOgrapherr IS,
II one but stop to think of it, like a
piece Of the day Of judgment to him.
She knows all his articles and pre-
tenses and double dealings, If he be
rot wholly straightforward. Our chill
dren, too, see the difference between
what we really are or believe, in the
franBness of the family circle, and
nrErImn f0F
company.
More important yet, as Jesus pointed
out, we are known through and
through to God. There are no sue
ccSsful hypOcrites in dealing with him.
We may sJr a time fool a few persons,
but not for minute can we deceive
God.
When the lid is lifted from our life,
rs i1 some day viii be, shall we be
glad or terrified The stern utter
auce Of the. master is a powerful ser
mon upon living in the open sunlight.
Walk in the light" and you will
never fear a pOliceman's tread or a
gOSSIp'S tongue. A clean life is invul-
nerable armor. Graft investigations
hold no threat for the honest man.
Judgment days are the viudication of
the righteous Beware of the leaven
of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy"
and you viii welcome every ray Of
The NDare-TO-Dieg Chinese.
what a person fears most tells what |
ne IS NOW these old PhariSeeS were /
afraid that the public would not think 1
well of them Had they lived in our 4
day the richest Of them would have /
employed press agents to secure favor
able mention for them in the news /
papers. They were afraid for their
regulations forgetting that, in the
long run reputation is but an emsna-
tiOa If character.
Some persons are scared Of dying. (
Our artificial day has multiplied this /
terror Do you recall how summer
cGICSgers fled from the Atlantic coast
.ten the approach of the Spanish fleet
vas rumored2 We have come to over
value physical safety and comfort An /
sspiIa1on during the Chinese revOIu-
ton were the "Dare-to-die'' bands of I
young men, mostly students who vol
uttered for extra hazardous service !
I 'sy rightly perceived that their own
lives were Of relative unimportance as
compared with the freedom of their
nation This same reckless bravery.
winch put the assurance of Paradise