The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-17
4 FASHION is FOLLY.
fns International Sunday School Les
son For February % is Path De-
,troying Fear."--Lpke 12:1-12.

sa-S n ana eX-
..,,jms: There comes that tiresome
urs. Smith. simply can't endure
her"
moment later, at the door. she
,ays. with ~ef7usive smiles: my dear
a-e. Smith, / am sc glad to see you; ;
.no il 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. It1acks COM
mon ordinary, straightforward sin
.artv The wisest Of social physicians
nnco nut a label on this disease SO
',ead,y to souls. He called it 1.-The
Ia,ven OF the Pharisees, which is hy- |
nocrisy.' Rottenness in the bones Of
',baracter, functional disintegratiOn Of
INC soul. palsy of the motor nerves OF
an yill--all his and more, is h es-
.srtial i~nsincerily which the COM
nle.ity &c our social life fosters, and
%n,bich Jesus e~xcoriated in the Phari-
see9.
"White lies reveal black spots in
character. The reason the judgment
~ mankind condemns al lar is not
because OF thel it itself, or it's parti-
.oILar consequences. but because 1t
denotes fundamental unsoundness. To
9p fDSiflCeft 10 ~ w " TX
through 80 the center of things. A
.hvnocrite is worse than an open and
shameless drunkard or gambler; for
his ofYense is not one of appetite or
peculiar weakness; 1t is structural,
affecting the stability of the whole
lie.
What Our StcnOgraphefS Think.
Tbe business mans s~tenographer is,
II one but stop to think of it, like a
- Il, - sr~nnut 70 him
She knows all his articles and pre-
tense and double-dealings, if he be
no, wholly straightforward. Our
children, too, see h difference be-
tween what we really are or believe
IN the frankness of the family circle,
and what We pretend in the presence
al
More important yet. as Jesus point
.j out, we are known through and
through to God. There are no sue
cessful hypocrites in dealing with
BIN. We may for a time fool a few
persons, but not for a minute can we
deceive God. What is more, as Jesus
said. There is nothing covered VI
that shall not be revealed" Hypoc.
racy is as vain as it is vicious. The
whole world one day comes to know
the truth about us. Whether tina
prospect fill us with JOY or will
dread is a fairly good symptom Of tn
sort ot person We are.
When the lid is lifted from on
liz, as it some day will be, shall w
b. glad or terrified? The stern ut
1erance of the Master is a powerful
sermon upon living in the open sun
light. Walk in the light" and yO
will never fear a policeman's trea
"r a goSsip's tongue. A clean life
mvulnerable armor. Graft investiga
tons hold no threat for the homes
man. Judgment days are the Wind
cation Of the righteous. beware
the leaven of the Pharisees, which
Hypocrisy" and you will welcom
needs TO be more strongly imprese
npon youth than this; the dyin
words of John y. Cough wei
Young man, keep your reco1
el"ap."
The 'Dare-TO-Die'' Chinese.
What q. person fears most tel
what he is. Now these old Pharise
""r" afraid that the public Won
not think well Of them. Had tn
lived in our day the richest of the
would have employed press agents
secure favorable mention for them
ihe They were ARA
for their regulations, forgetting tn;
IN the long run reputation is but
cmanation of character.
SOmc persons are search Oh u
ing. Our artificial day has multipli
this terror. DO you recall how SUI
'ner cottagers fed from the Allan
coast when the approach Of the spa
ism feet was rumOred? Without I
ing cynical it may be said that
are attaching an entirely !
p%ottance to the mere matter of ]
ing. We ave come to overval
physical safety and comfort. An
SpiratiOn during the Chinese revo
ton were the "Dare-to-die' Lands
young men, mostly students who v
nnteered for eXtra-haZardous servl
They rightly perceived that tn
own lives were OF RELATIVE" rrirnp
ance as compared With the reed
IT their nation. IT, same recki
bravery. which put me a. rance
PARADISE above all concerns OF life
safety. was what leo the 1oIioWers
Mohammed to sweep onward IN
irresistible conquest of q large 2