Year: 1873

take my text from the sermon on the
Mount. just at the close of that itera-
ton of beatitudes, there occur in the 18th
verse of the 5th chapter of Matthew,
these words:


"If the salt has lost its SAVIOR it is henceforth
good for nothing, but to be cast out and to be
trodden under foot of men,"


That these words apply to men is seen
in Christ's saying: aye are the salt of
the earth" And as when salt has lost
its SAVIOR it is good for nothing, except to
fill up street and be trodden under foot
of men; so men, when they have lost
different degrees of grace, are cores
pondingly reduced in their uses. There
are various uses to which men can be put.
l believe the lowest, but not the worst,
is to use them to add the amount of the
phosphates and other fertilzing proper
ties of their bodies to the productive ca
pacity of the soil Of the hundreds of
thousands that are annually ferried over
from the decaying civilizations, or rather
misgovernments of the old world, many
are used only as sponges to absorb the
deadly malaria and miasma of the front
ier in order to render the air fit for a
higher class of beings, and to enrich the
soil with their bones. | say this is the
lowest use you can put a man to, but it is
not the worst


The worst is when you are obliged to
set him up as a terrible example. He
has spent his life in making sin attractive;
he has gilded it's followers; he has deck
ed its harlots with jewels and gold; he
has driven the fastest horses; dressed
himself in the most dashing attire, and
debauched public sentiment with the i'm
preston that such life is one of abund-
ance of JOY, of revel and of song. And
all you can do to atone for all this is to
catch him in the closing moments of his
life, tear off his bravery of attire and
show his plague-spotted body, the burnt
out volcano of his passions, put the black
cap of death over his features,
tie behind him his hands red with the
blood of his fellow man and swing him
on high to cry in the ears of all men,
the wages of sin is death" There is
way that seemeth right to man, but the
end thereof is death.


There is very little chance of doing
much good with man in that way: 1t
is putting q moment against whole life
influence The bloated carcass of the
drunkard put at door of liquor shop
and labeled specimen of the work done
inside, may turn away few, but his
whole life has lured hundreds to ruin.
il is like writing out the life of some gay
wretch in the most attractive light, and
Just putting one great exclamation mark
ofNhorror at the close. That is what ev
cry hanging is-a single great exclama-
ton point at the close of life that men
call gay. Such a life is not paying bu-
siness it is squandering birth right for
a mess of pottage, that you cannot eat
yourself, and other people do not care to.
There is no need of man devoting him
self to the terrible and fearful business.
Satan went into it ages ago, and so over
did it that he has had no successful COM
petitor since; he ought to be left to q
monopoly of the thing he invented. We
despair of doing much good by holding
any of his followers as examples.


We turn rather to the contemplation
of those causes that can blot out all wor
thy ambitions from a human soul, fill it