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THIS I HDGEU: GAFFNEY, 8. C., OCTOHEH ‘J8, I8r,7. r> ILL LIES ARE BLACK REV. DR. TALMAGE SAYS THERE ARE NO WHITE ONES. H«> llAfers Sppcl»lly to m Variety of I.lar* ami In Cloning Drawn a Ki'inarkably Oraphlc Picture of a Manqacrade Hall. fCopyrlght, 1897. by American Press Asso ciation. J Wabhinoton, Oct. 24.—Dr. Talniaffo in this discourse ^ives a vivid classifica tion of the vices of speech uu<l pleads for houesty in all that is said and done. His text is Acts v. 1-10, “A certain mail named Ananias, with Sapphira his vrtft. sold a possession, ” etc. A well match* <1 pair, alike in ambi tion and in falsehood, Ananias and Sap'hint! They wanted a reputation for :^rcat NsK ficeuce, and they sold all their property, pretending to put tho entire proceeds in the charity fund, while they put much of it in their own poeb’t. There was no necessity that they give all their property away, but tiny wanted tho reputation of so doing. Antmins first lied almut it and dropped down dead. Then Sapphira lied about it, pud sho dropped down dead—the two fatalities a warning to all ages of the danger of sacrificing the truth. There are thousands of ways of tell ing a He. A man’s whole life may he a falsehood and yet never with his lips may ho falsify onoe. There is a way of uttering falsehood by look, by manner, as well as by lip. There are persons who are guilty of dishonesty of speech and then aftenvard say “may bo,’’ cull ing it a white lie, when no Ho is that color Tho whitest lie ever told was as blafck ns perdition. There are those so 1 givts to dishonesty of speech that they do pht know when they are lying. With some it is an acquired sin, and with otheis it is a natural infirmity There are hose whom yon will recognize as born liars. Their whole life, from cra dle ti> grave, is filled up with vice of spet h Misrepresentation and prevari- catfyi are as natural to them as the in fantile diseases and are a sort of moral croiip or spiritual scarlatina. Ttm there are those who in after life save opportunities of developing this evil, and they go from decep tion to deception and from class to class until they arc regularly graduated liars. At times tho air iu our cities is filled with falsehood and lies cluster around the mechanic’s hammer, blos som on tho merchant’a yardstick and sometimes sit in tho doors of churches. They are called by some fabrication, and they arc called by some fiction. Yon might call them subterfuge or de ceit or romance or fable or misrepre sentation or delusion, but as I know nothing to bo gained by covering up a God defying sin with a lexicographer’s blanket I shall call them in plainest vernacular lies. They may he divided into agricultural, commercial, mechan ical, social and ecclesiastical. The Lying Farmer. , First of all, 1 speak of agricultural ylalsehooda There is something in the 7 presence oi natural objects that lias a i tendency to make one pure Tho trees never isauo false stock. The whoatfields are always honest Rye and oats never move out in the night not paying for tho place they occupy. Com shocks never make false assigument. Mountain brooks are always current Tho gold of tho whoatfields is never counterfeit, but while the tendency of agricultural life is to make one honest, honesty is not the characteristic of all who come to the city markets from the country dis tricts. You hear the creaking of the dishonest farm wagon in almost every street of onr great cities—a farm wagon in which there is not one honest spoke or one truthful rivet, from tongue to tailboard. Again and again has domes tic economy iu our great cities founder ed on the farmer’s firkin. When New York and Washington sit down and weep over their sins, let Westchester county and tho neighborhoods around * this capital sit down and weep over theirs. The tendency in all rural districts is to supi>ose that sms and transgressions cluster in our great cities, but citizens and merchants long ago learned that it is not safe to calculate from the charac ter of the apples on the top of tho farm er’s barrel what is the character of the apples all the way down toward tho bottom. Many of our citizens and mer chants have learned that it is always safe to see tho farmer measure the barrel of beets. Milk cans are not al ways honest. Thera are those who in country life seem to think they have a right to overreach grain dealers and merchants of all styles. They think it is more honorable to raise com than to deal in com. The producer sometimes practically says to tho merchant, “Yon get your money easily anyhow. ” Does he get it easily? While tho farmer sleeps—and he may ko to sleep con- scions of the fact that yus corn and ryo are all the time progfcssing and add ing to his fortune or huflivelihood—tho merchant tries to sleep, while conscious of tho fact that at that moment the ship may be driving on the tick or a wave sweeping over the hurricane deck spoil ing his goods, or the specutoitors may be plotting a monetary revolution, or tho burglars may be at that napment at his money safe, or the firo m:t have kin dled on the very block whe^e his store stands. Easy, is it? Lot those wflo get their living in the quiet farm and born take the place of one of our city Werchants and see whether it is so easy, lit is hard enough to have the hands! blistered with outdoor work, but it U harder with mental anxieties to have Vhe brain consumed. God help tho merchants, and do not let those who live In coun try life come to tho conclusion »\hat all the dishonesties belong to city Ufa The Lying Merchant. I pass on to consider commercial Ifoa. There are those who apologize for de-» viations from tho right and for practi-| cal deception by saying it is commer-) cial custom. La other words, a lie bjr multiplication becomes a virtue. There ( are large fortunes gathered in which there is not one drop of tho sweat of unrequited toil. i'»'d not one spark uf bad temper flashes from tho bronze bracket, and there is not one drop of needlewoman's heart’s blood on tho crimson plush, while there are other fortunes about which it may lie said that on every doorknob, and on every figure of the Muxp<>t. and on every wall there is tho mark of dishonor. What if the hand wrung by toil and blistered until the skin comes off should bo placed on tho exquisite wall paper, leav ing its mark of blood—four fingers and a thumb—or if in the night the man should lie aroused from his slumber again and again by his own conscience, getting himself up on elbow and cry ing out into tho darkness, “Who is there?” There are large fortunes upon which God’s favor conies down, and it is just as honest and just as Christian to bo affluent as It Is to be poor. In many a house there Is a blessing on every pic tured wall and on every scroll and on every traecricd window, and tho joy that flashes in tho lights and that show ers in tho music and that dances in the quick feet of the children pattering through the hall has in it the favor of God and tho approval of man. and there am thousands ;uul tens of thousands of merchants who, from the first day they sold a yard of cloth or firkin of butter, have maintained their integrity. They were bom honest, they will live honest and they will die honest, but you and 1 know that there are in commercial life those who arti guilty of great dishon esties of speech. A merchant says, “1 am selling these goods at less than cost” Is ho getting for those goods a price inferior to that which he paid for them? Then he has spoken tho truth Is he getting more? Then ho lies. A merchant says, ”1 paid $25 for this article. ” Is that tho price he paid for it? All right. But supiKise ho i>aid for it $23 instead of $25? Thou ho Hob. Hut there are just as many falsehoods ; before the countor os there are behind tho countur. A customer comes in and | asks, “How much is this article?” “It | is $5.” ”1 cam get that for $4 some where else. ” Ciui he got it for $4 some where else, or did ho say that just for the purpose of getting it cheap by de preciating the value of tho goods? If so. ho lied. There are just as many false hoods before the counter as there are behind the counter. A man unrolls upon tho counter a bale of handkerchiefs. Tho customer says, “Are these all silk?" “Yes.” “No cottou iu them?” “No cotton in them. ” Are those handkerchiefs all silk? Then the merchant told tho truth. Is there any cotton in them? Then he lied. Moreover, he defrauds himself, for this customer coming in will after awhile find out that ho has been defrauded, and the next time he comes to town and goes shopping ho will look up at that sign and say: “No, I won’t go there. That’s the place whore I got those handkerchiefs.” First, the raer- chaut insulted God, and, secondly, he picked his own pocket. Who would take the responsibility of saying how many falsehoods were yesterday told by hardware men and clothiers and hunbermen' and tobacco nists and jewelers and importers and shippers and dealers in furniture and dealers in coal and dealers in groceries? Lies about buoklos, about saddles, about harness, abont shoes, about hats, about coats, about shovels, abont tongs, about forks, about chairs, about sofas, about horses, about lands, about everything. I arraign commercial falsehood as one of the crying sins of onr time. The Lying Mechanic. I pass on to speak of mechanical falsehoods. Among the artisans are those upon whom wo are dejiendent for the houses in which we live, the gar ments we wear, tho cars in which we ride. The vast majority of them are, so far ns I know them, men who speak tho truth, and they are upright, and many of tliew are foremost in great philan thropies and in ohurches, but that they all do not belong to that class every one knows. In times when there is a great demand for labor it is not so easy for such men to keep their obligations, be cause they may miscalculate in regard to the weather, or they may not be able to get the help they anticipated iu their enterprise. I am speaking now of those who promise to do that which they know they will not be able to da They say they will come on Monday; they do not come until Wednesday. They say they will come on Wednesday; they do not come until Saturday. They say they will have tko job done in 10 days; they do not get it done before 80. And when a man becomes irritated and will not stand It any longer, then they go and work for him a day or two and keep the job along, and then some one else gets irritated and outraged and they go and work for that man and get him pacified, and then they go somewhere else. I believe they call that "nursing the job.” Ah, my friends, how much dishonor such men would save their souls if they would promise to do only that which they know they can do. “Oh,” they say, “it’s of no importance; everybody expects to be deceived and disappoint ed. ’’ There is a voice of thunder sound ing among the saws and the hammers and the shears, saying, “All liars sliall have their place in the lake that bums with fire and brimstone. ” The Society Lie. I pass on to speak of social lies. How much of society is insincere? You hard ly know what to believe. They send their regards. You do not exactly know whether it is an expression of the heart or an external civility. They ask you to come to their house; you hardly know whether they really want yon to coma We are all accustomed to take a dis count off what we hear. “Notat homo” very often means too lazy to dress. I was reading of a lady who sai^ she had told her last fashionable lia There was a knoek at her door and she sent word down, “Notat homa” That night her husband Wild to her, “Mrs. So and so is dead.” “Is it possible?” she said. “Yes, and she died iu great anguish of mind. She wanted to see you sti very much. She hud something very inipor- I taut to disclose to you in her last hour, and she hoiiC three times today, Imt | found you absent every time. ” Then j thin womuijitiothought herself that she' had had a bargain with her neighbor 1 that when the long protracted sickness was about to come to an end sho would : appear at her bedside and take tho so- ' oret that was to bo disclosed. And sho i had said she was “not at home. ” Social life is struck through with . insincerity. They apologize for the fact | tluvt. the furnace is out; they have not had any firo in it all winter. They apol- | ogize for tho faro on their table; they never live any better. They decry their most luxuriant entertainment to win a shower of approval from yon. They point at a picture on tho wall as a work of one of the old masters. They ' say it is an heirloom iu tho family. It hung on the wall of a castle. A duke gave it to their grandfather I People that will lie about nothing else will lio about a picture. On small income wo want tho world to believe wo are afflu ent, and society today is struck through with cheat and counterfeit and sham. How few people are natural! Frigid ity sails around, iceberg grinding against iceberg. Yon mst not laugh outright; that is vulgar. You must smile. You must not dash quickly across the room; that is vulgar. You must glide. Much of society is a round of bows and grins and grimaces and ohs and alia and he, he, hes and sim- perings and uamby pambyism, a whole world of which is not worth one good honest round of laughter. From such a hollow scene tho tortured guest retires at tho close of tho evening, assuring tho host that he has enjoyed himself. So ciety is become so contorted and deform ed in this respect that a mountain cabin where the rustics gather at a quilting or an apple paring h;us in it more good cheer than all tho fresoued refrigerators of tho metropolis. The Church Lie. I piiss on to speak of ecclesiastical lies, those which are told for the ad vancement or retarding of a church or sect It is hardly worth your while to ask an extreme Calvinist what an Ar- minian believes. Ho will toll yon that an Arminian believes that man can save himself. An Arminian believes no such thing. It is hardly worth your while to ask an extreme Amiiman what a Calvinist believes. Ho will tell you that a Calvinist believes that God made some men just to damn them. A Cal vinist believes no such thing. It is hard ly worth your while to ask a Pedo-Bap tist what a Baptist believes. Ho will tell yon a Baptist believes that immor- siou is necessary for salvation. A Bap tist does not believe any snch thing It is hardly worth yonr while to ask a man who very much hates Presbyterians what a Presbyterian believes He will tell you that a Presbyterian believes that there are infants iu hell a span long, aid that very phraseology has come down from generation to genera tion in tho Christian church. There never was a Presbyterian who believed that “Oh, "you say, “I hoard some Presbyterian minister 20 years ago say sol” Yon did not There never was a man who believed that there never will be a man who will believe that and yet from boyhood I have heard that particular slander against a Christian church going down throngh the com munity. Then how often it is that there are misrepresentations on the part of indi vidual churches in regard to other churehos—especially If a church comes to great prosperity. As long as a church is in poverty, and the singing is poor, and all tho surroundings are decrepit, and tho congregation are so hardly bestead in life that their pastor goes with elbows out, then there will always be Christian people iu churches who say, “What a pity, what a pity I" But let tho day of prosperity come to a Chris tian church, and let the music bo tri umphant and let there be vast assem blages, and then there will be even min isters of the gospel critical and denun ciatory and full of misrepresentation and falsification, giving tho impression to the outside world that they do not like the corn because it is not ground in their mill Oh, my friends, let us in all departments of life stand back from deception But some one says, “The deception that 1 practice is so small that it don't amount to anything. ” Ah, my friends, it does amount to a great dealt Yon say, “When 1 deceive, it is only about a case of needles or a box of buttons or a row of pina ” But the article may be so small yon can put it in your vest pocket, but the sin is as big as the pyra mids, and tho echo of your dishonor will reverberate through the mountains of eternity. There is no snch thing as a small sin. They are all vast and stu pendous, because they will all have to come under inspection in the day of judgment. You may boast yourself of having made a fine bargain, a sharp bargain. You may carry out what tho Bible says iu regard to that man who went iu to make a purchase and depre ciated the value of the goods and then after he bad got away boasted of the splendid bargain he had made. “It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer, but when he is gone his way, then he boasteth. ’’ It may seem to the world a sharp bargain, but the recording angel wrote down in the ponderous tomes of eternity, “Mr. So-and-so, doing business on Pennsylvania avenue, or Broadway, or Chestnut street, or State street, told one lie.” The Masquerade. May God extirpate from society all tho ecclesiastical lies, and all the social lies, and all the mechanical lies, and all tho commercial lies, and all the ag ricultural lies, and make every man to speak the troth of his neighbor My friends, let ns make our life correspond to what we are Let us banish all de ception from our behavior Let us re- moinbnr that tho time comes when God will demonstrate before an assembled universe just what wo are. The secret will come out Wo may hide it while we livu, but we cannot little it when wediu To many life is a masquerade ball As at such entertainment gentle men and ladies apjiear in garb til kings or qncous or mountain bandits or clowns anti then at the elese of tho dunce put off their disguise, m> many all through life art) in musk. Tho masquerade bull goes on, anti gemmed hand clasps gem med hand, and dancing feet respond to dancing feet, ami gleaming brow Is mis to gleaming brow, anil the masquerade ball goes bravely on, but after awhile languor comes and blurs the sight. Lights lower. Floor hollow with sepul chral coho Music saddens Into a watL Lights lower. Now the masquerade is hardly seen. The fragianoo is exchanged | for tho sickening odor of garlands that have lain a long while in the damp of sepulchers. Lights lower. Mists fill tho j room. Tho scurf drops from tho shoul- j der of beauty, a shroud. Lights lower Torn leaves and withered garlands now hardly cover up tho ulcered feet Stench of lamp wicks almost quenched. Chok ing dampnesa Chilliness. Feet still Hands folded. Eyes shut Voice hushed. Lights out Ylrtnr*n Itany Inning. Albert Rockingham and John Dawson had been boys together. Albert hail al ways gone to Sunday school and obeyed his parents, but John had been a bad boy. Ho Ind loved to torture kittens, to destroy bmlr nests and to make lit tle girls cry In time they grew to tnonhosd and loved the same woman. Julia Birdsall worshiped Albert Rockingham until he was arrested for highway robbery and sentenced to tho penitentiary for 2? years. Then her heart turned to stone. “Jnlia, ” ho cried as they were load ing him away, “Julia, Julia, I am in nocent!" But she gave him tho Chilkat puss and fainted in tho arms of John D»w- son. who smiled sardonically and mut tered: “So innch, Albert Rockingham, for being a good boy anti going to Sunday school ” Twelve years passed—12 weary, sor row laden years, during which John Dawson made love to tho woman who had promised to bo Albert Rocking ham’s wife anti collected tho rents that tho falsely accused man ought to have had. But Nemesis had all along been bid ing her time, and ono day, when John Dawson wasn’t looking, sho stole up and hit him on tho solar plexus. Two days later Albert Rockingham emerged from prison, weighing 17 pounds more than ho did when ho was sentenced. “JuliaI’’ ho cried when sho stepped forward at tho depot “Albert!” screamed the beautiful girl, and their lips mot Thon John Dawson was led away, gritting his teeth and swearing that ho was not through yet Vain throat Ho rotted in a dungeon, while Albert and Jnlia raised a large family and were truly happy. Thus virtue had triumphed, bat un fortunately this didn’t happen in real Ufa It was just a 30-cents-for-tho-bost- seat melodrama. —Cleveland Loader. L»V)' AnVtlm In Gimtwmnla. If a writer in the Chicago Inter Ocean is to be bulievud, tho laws of etiquette iu Guatemala are excessively strict All love affairs, it appears, are carried on by stealth. “Tho would be lover, de nied admission to the presence of his inamorata, frequents the street in front of her house and spends moat of hit- wakiug hours in pacing tho pavement and Ksaing rapturously at her window, while she, snugly ensconced behind her bars, prefends to ignore him. though delighted to have a suitor and anxious to show him off to all her acquaintances. In Hpain this courting in public at long range is known as “plucking tho tur key;" iu Guatemala, as iu Mexico, it is culled “playing the bear. ’’ Always is it continued for months, sometimes for years, anil maybe without success at all. “Tho result does not depend upon the wishes of the girl, but upon tho will of her parents. 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