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> I THE LEDGER; GAFFNEY, 8. C., MARCH 31, 1898. 9 ' DIVINE SENTIMENT. REV. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A SER MON OF MERCY. Condemn Not Your Neighbor For nis Faulta You Have WcaUnesues—Human Conduct Is Unfairly Criticised—The Gold en Kule, [Copyright, 1838. by American Press Asso ciation.] Washington, March 27.—If the spirit of this sermon of Dr. Talmage were carried out, tbo world would be u better place to live iu and the fallen would find it easier to recover themselves; text, Matthew vii, 2. “With what mcas- j lire you meto it shall he measured to you again.” In the greatest sermon ever preached j —a sermon about 15 minutes long ac- i cording to the ordinary rate of speech— i a sermon on the Mount of Olives, the | preacher sitting while he spoke, ac cording to the ancient mode of oratory, the people were given to understand that the same yardstick that they employed upon others would be employed upon themselves. Measure others by a harsh rule, and you will be measured by a harsh rule. Measure others by a charita- blo rule, and you will be measured by a charitable rule. Give no mercy to oth ers, and no mercy will be given to you. “With what measure ye mete it shall bo measured to you again.” Tb Tti is a great deal of unfairness in criticism in human conduct. It was to smite that unfairness that Christ utter ed the words of the text, and my ser mon will bo a re-echo of the divine sen timent. In estimating the misbehavior of others we must take into considera tion the pressure of circumstances. It is never right to do wrong, but there are degrees of culpability. When men mis- behavo cr commit some atrociou-'iiviek- eduess, wo are disposed inrii^ .minute ly to tumble them all over tuo bank of condemnation. Suffer they ought and suffer they must, but in a difference of degree/ Hereditary Tendencies. In the first place, in estimating the misdoing of others wo must take into calculation the hereditary tendency. There is such a thing us good biood and there is such a thing as bad blood. There are families that have had a moral twi^c in them for a hundred years back. They have not been careful to keep the family record in that regard. Them have been escapades and maraudings and ecoun- drelisms and moral deficits all the way back, whether you call it kleptomania or pyromunia or dipsomania or whether it bo in a milder form and amount to no mania at all. The strong probability is that the present criminal started life with nerve, muscle and bone contami nated. As some start life with a natu ral tendency to nobility and generosity and kindness and truthfulness, there j are others w ho start life with just the , opposite tendency, and they are burn liars or bora malcontents or born out- | laws or born swindlers. There is in England a school that is ! called the Princess Mary school. All the | children in that school are the children | of convicts. The school is under high j patronage. I had the pleasure of being present at one of their anniversaries, presided over by the Dari of Kiutore. By a wise law in England, after parents have committed a certain number of crimes and thereby shown themselves incompetent rightly to bring up their children, the little ones are taken from under pernicious influences and nut iu reformatory schools, whero all gracious and kindly influences shall bo brought upon them. Of course the experiment is young mid it has got to be demonstrated how large a percentage of the children of convicts may be brought up to re spectability and usefulness. But we all know that it is more difficult for chil dren of bad parentage to do right than for children of good parentage. In this country we are taught by the Declaration of American Independence that all people are born equal. There never was a greater misrepresentation put in cue sentence than in that sen tence which implies that we are all born equal. You may as well say that flowers are born equal, or trees are born equal, or animals are born equal. Why does ono horse cost §100 and an other horse cost §5,000? Why does one sheep cost §10 and another sheep cost §500? Difference in blood. W’o are wise i enough to recognize it iu horses, in cat- i tie, iu sheep, but we are not wise enough to make allowance for the difference iu the human blood. Now, I demand by the law of eternal fairness that you be more lenient iu your criticism of these who were born wrong, in whose ances tral lino there was a hangman’s knot, or who came from a tree the fruit of which for centuries has been gnarled and worm eaten. Pity tlie Weak. Dr. Harris, a reformer, gave some marvelous statistics iu his story of a woman he called “Margaret, the moth er of criminals.” Ninety years ago she lived iu a village iu upper New York state. She was not only poor, but sho was vicious. Hhe was not well provided for. There were no almshouses there. The public, however, somewhat looked after her, but chiefly scoffed at her and derided her and pushed her further down ia her crime. That was 'JO years ago. There have been (122 persons in that an cestral line, 200 of them criminals. In one branch of that family there were 20, and tiino of them have been in state prison, and nearly all of the others have turned out badly. It is estimated that that family cost tho county and state §100,000, to say nothing of the proper ty they destroyed. Are you not will ing, as sensible, fair people, to ac knowledge that it is a fearful disaster to be born iu such an ancestral line? Does it not make a great difference whether one descends from Margaret, the mother of criminals, or from some , mother in Israel, whether you are the sou of Abab or the son of Joshua? It is a very different thing to swim with the current from what it is to Ipwiin against the current, as some of yon have no dcubt found in your sum mer rocreati'^. if a man find himself iu an ancestral current, where there is good blood flowing smoothly from gen eration to generation, it is not a very great credit to him if he turn cut good and honest and pure and noble. He could hardly help it. But suppose he is born iu an ancestral line, iu a hered itary line, where tho influences have been bad, and there has been a coming ; down over a moral declivity; if tbo man ( surrender to the iufidcMces he will go down under the overmastering gravita tion unless some supernatural aid be af forded him. Now, such a person de serves not your excoriation, but your pity. Do not sit with the lip curled in scorn and with an assumed air of angelic innocence looking down upon such moral precipitation. You had better get down on your knees and first pray Almighty God for their rescue and next thank the Lord that you have not been thrown under tho wheels of that Juggernaut. Beset by Temptation. In Great Britain and in the United States in every generation there are tens of thousands of parsons who are fully developed criminals and incarcer ated. I say in every generation. Then I suppose there are tens of thousands of persons not found nut iu their criminal ity. In addition to these there are tens of thousands <rf persons who, not posi tively becoming criminals, nevertheless have a criminal tendency. Any ono of all those thousands by tho grace of God may become Christian and resist the ancestral influence and open a new chapter of behavior, but tbo vast ma jority of them will not, and it becomes all men, professional, unprofessional, ministers of religion, judges of courts, philanthropists and Christian workers, to recognize the fact that there arc these Atlantic and Pacific surges of hereditary evil rolling on through the centuries. I say, of course, a man can resist this tendency, just as iu tho ancestral lino mentioned in tho first chapter of Matthew. You see in the same line iu which there was a wicked Rehoboam and a desperate Uauasses, there after ward came a pious Josiab and a glorious Christ. But, n:y friends, you must recog nize the fact that these influences go on from generation to generation. I am glad to know, however, that a river which has produced nothing but miasma for ICO miles may after awhile turn tho wheels of factories and help support in dustrious and virtuous populations, and there are family lines which were poi soned that are a benediction now. At the last day it will be found out that there are men who have gone clear over into all forms of iniquity ami plunged into utter abandonment who before they yielded to the first temptation resisted more evil than many a man who has been moral and upright all his life. But supposing new that iu this ago, when there are so many good people, that I comedown into this audience and select the very best man in it. I do not mean tho man who would style himself the best, fer probably be is a hypocrite, but I mean the man who before God is really the best. I will take you out from all your Christian surroundings. I will take you back to boyhood. I will put yon iu a depraved borne. I will put you in a cradlo of iniquity. Who is bending over that cradlo? An intoxicat ed mother. Who is that swearing iu the next room? Your father. The neighbors come iu to talk, and their jokes arc un clean. There is not in tho house a Bible or a moral treatise, but only a few scraps of an old pictorial. After awhile you are old enough to get out of the cradle, and you are struck across the head for naughtiness, but never iu any kindly manner reprimand ed. After awhile you are old enough to go abroad, and you are sent out with a basket to steal. If you come home with out any spoil, you are whipped until tho blood comes. At 15 years of age you go oct to fight your own battles iu this world, which seems to cure no more for you than the dog that has died of a lit under the fence. You are kicked and cuffed and buffeted. Some day. rallying your courage, you resent some wrong. A man says: “Who are you? I know who you are. Your father had free lodg ings at Sing Sing. Your mother, she was up for drunkenness at the criminal court. Get out of my way, you low li\«l wretch!” My brother, suppose that luiR been the history of your advent and tlfb history of your earlier surroundings, would you have been the Christian man you are today, sc aged in this Christian assembly? I tellJyon nay. You would have been a vagabond, an outlaw, a murderer on the scaffold atoning for your crime. xUl these considerations ought to make us merciful in our deal ings with the wandering and the lust. Consider the Sinner. Again, I have to remark that iu our estimation tho misdoing of people who have fallen from high respectability and usefulness, we must take into considera tion the conjunction of circumstances. In nine cases out of ten a man who goes astray does not intend any positive wrong. He has trust funds. Ho risks a part of these funds iu investment. Ho says, “Now, if I should lose that invest ment I have of my own property five times as much, and if this investment should go wrong I could easily make it up; I could live times make it up.” With that wrong reasoning he goes on and makes tbo investment, and it does not turn out quite as well as ho expect ed, and lie makes another investment, and, strange to say, at the same time all his other affairs get entangled ami all his other resources fail and his bunds are tied. Now he wants to extricate himself. lie goes a little further on iu tho wrong investment. Ho takes a plunge further ahead, for ho wants to save his wife and children, ho wants to save his home, he wants to save his membership in tho church. Ho takes ono more plunge and all is lost. Some morning at 10 o’clock the bank door is not opened, and there is a card on tho door signed by an officer of the bank, indicating there is trouble, and tho name of the defaulter or the de frauder beudi tbo newspaper column, and hundreds of men say, “Good foi him;” hundreds of other men say. “I'tn glad he's found out at last;” huudrods of other men say, “Just us I told you;” hundreds of other men say, “We could not possibly have been tempted to do that; no conjunction of circumstances could ever have overthrown me,” ana there is a superabundance of indigna tion, but no pity; the heavens full of lightning, but not one drop of dew. It God treated us as so; iety treats that man, we would all ha ve been in hell long ago. Condemn Not Hastily. Wait for the alleviating circum stances. Perhaps ho may have been the dupe of others. Before you let all the hounds out from their kennel to maul and tear that man find out if he Las not been brought up in a commercial estab lishment where there was a wrong sys tem of ethics taught; find out whether that man has not an extravagant wife who is not satisfied with his honest earnings, and iu the temptation to phase her ho has gone into that ruin into which enough men have fallen, and by tho same temptation, to make a precession of many miles. Perhaps some sudden sickness may have touched his brain, and his judgment may be unbal anced. He is wrong, he is awfully wrong, and he must be condemned, bat there may be mitigating circumstances. Perhaps under the same temptation you might have fallen. The reason some men do not steal §200,000 is because they do not get a chance. Have righteous indignation you must about that man’s conduct, but temper it with mercy. But you say, “I ata sorry that tho innocent should suffer.” Yes, I am, too —sorry for the widows and orphans who lost their all by that defalcation. I am sorry also for tho business men, tho honest business men, who have bad their affairs all crippled by that defal cation. I am sorry for tho venerable bank president to whom tho credit of that bunk was a matter of pride. Yes, I am sorry also for that man who | brought all the distress, sorry that he j sacrificed body, mind, soul, reputation, heaven, and went into the blackness of j darkness forever. You defiantly say, “I could not bo tempted in that way.” Perhaps you may bo tested alter awhiio. God has a very good memory, and he sometimes seems to say : “This man feels so strong in his innate power and goodness ho shall be tested. He is so full of bitter invective against that unfortunate it shall be shown now whether he has tho power to stand.” Fifteen years go by. The wheel of fortune turns several times and you are iu a crisis that you never could have anticipated. Now all the powers of darkness come around, and they chuckle and they chatter and they say: “Aha, here is the old fellow who was so proud of his integrity and who bragged he couldn’t be overthrown by temptation and was so uproarious ia his demonstrations of indignation at tho defalcation 15 years ago! Let us see!” It .Shall Ce .'Measured. God lets the man go. God, who had kept that man under his protecting ! care, lets the man go and try for him self the majesty of his integrity. God ! letting the man go, the powers of dark ness pounce upon him. I see you some ! day iu your office in groat excitement. One of two things you can do. Be hon est and bo pauperized ami havo your children brought home fro school, your family dethroned in soo.^i influ ence. The other thing is, you can step a little aside from that which is right, you can only just go half an inch out of the proper path, you can only take a little risk, and then you have all your finances fair and right. You will have a large property. You can leave a for tune for your children and endow a col lege and build a public library iu your native town. You halt and wait and halt and wait until your lips get white. You decide to risk it. Only a few strokes of the pen now. But, oh, how your bund trembles, how dreadfully it trembles! The die is cast. By the strangest and most awful conjunction of circumstances any ono could havo imagined you are prostrated. Bank ruptcy, commercial annihilation, expo sure, crime. Good men mourn and devils hold carnival, and you see your own name at tho bead of tho newspaper col umn iu a whole congress of exclamation points, and while you are reading the anathema in tho reportorial unci edi torial paragraph, it occurs to you how much this story is like that of the defal cation 15 years ago, and a clap of thun der shakes tho window sill, saying, “With what measure ye meto it shall bo measured to you agaiu!” FUr»U Is Wra’.t. Y'ou look in another direction. The re is nothing like ebullitions of temper to put a muu to disadvantage. You, a man with calm pulses and a fine digestiou and perfect health, cannot understand how anybody should be capsized in tem per by an infinitesimal annoyance. You say, “I couldn’t be unbalanced in that way.” Perhaps you smile at a provoca tion that makes another man swear. You pride yourself on your imperturb ability. You say with your manner, though you havo too much good taste to say it with.your words; “I havo a great deal mure sense than that man has. I havo a great deal more equipoise of temper than that man has. I never could make such a puerilo exhibition of myself us that man has made.” Let me see. Did you not say that you could not bo tempted to an ebullition of temper? Some September you eomo home from your summer watering place and you havo iusidu, away back in your liver or spleen, what wo call in our day malaria, but what the old folks called chills and fever. You take quinine un til your curs aro first buzzing beehives and then roaring Niagaras. You take roots and herbs; you take everything. You get well. Dut tho next day you feel uncomfortable, and you yawn, end you stretch, and you shiver, and you consume, and you suffer. Vexed more than you can tell, you cannot sleep, you cannot eat, you cannot bear to see any thing that !• iks happy, you go out to 1 t . ~ . ..A , * kick the cat that is Asleep in the sun. Ytmr children’s mirth was once inusio tO^rou; now it is deafening. You say, ‘.'Boys, stop that racket.’’ You jtura back from Juno to March. Iu tho family and in the neighborhood your populari ty is K5 per emt off. Tho world says: “What is tiio matter with that disa- greeablo man? What a woebegone coun tenance! I can’t bear the sight of him.” You have got your pay at last—got your pay. You feel just as tho man felt, that man for whom you had no mercy, and my text comes in with marvelous ap- positeuess, “With what measure yo mete it shall he measured to you again. ” Victims of Circumstance. In the study of society I have come to this conclusion—that the most of the people want to tw good, but they do not exactly know how to make it out. They make enough good resolutions to lift them into angelhood. Tho vast majority of people who fall are the victims of circumstances. They arc captured by ambuscade. If their temptations should come out in a regiment and fight them iu a fair field, they would go out iu the j strength and the triumph of David against Goliath. But they do not see the giants and they do not see the regiment. Temptation comes ahd says, “Take these bitters, take this nervine, take this aid to digestion, take this night cap. ” The vast majority of men and women who are destroyed by opium and by rum first take thorn as medicines. In making up your dish of criticism ia re gard to them, take from the caster and the cruet of sweet oil and not the cruet of cayenne pepper. Do you know how that physician, that lawyer, that journalist became tho victim of dissipation? Why, the physi cian was kept up night by night on pro fessional duty. Lifo and death hovered in the balance. His nervous system was exhausted. There came n time of epi demic and whole families were pros trated and his nervous strength was gone. He was all worn out in the serv ice of the public. Now he must brace himself up. Now ho stimulates. The life of this mother, tho life of this child, tho lifo of this father, the lifo of this whole family must be saved and of all these families must be saved, and La stimulates and Le does it again and agaiu. You may criticise his judgment, but remember the process. It was not a selfish process by which ho went down. It was magnificent generosity through which he fell. Do Not Be Hard. That attorney at the bar for weeks has been standing iu a poorly ventilated courtroom, listening to the testimony and contesting in the dry technicalities of tho law, and now tho time has come for him to wind up, and ha must plead for the lifo of his client, and his nerv cuh system is all gone. If he fails in that speech, his client perishes. If be havo eloquence enough in that hour, his client is saved. He stimulates. That journalist has had exhausting midnight work. He has had to report speeches and orations that J:c pt him up till a very late hour. He be.-; gone with much exposure working up some case of crime in company with a detective. Ho sits down at midnight to write out his notes from a memorandum scrawled on a pad under unfavorable circumstances. His strength is gone. Fidelity to the public intelligence, fidelity to his own livelihood, demand that he keep up. Ho must keep up. Ho stimulates. Again and again he does that, and he goes down. You may criticise his judgment in tho matter, but have mercy. Re member the process. Do not be hard. My friends, this text will come to fulfillment iu some casus iu this world. The huntsman in Farmsteen was shot by some unknown person. Twenty years after tho sou of the huntsman was iu the sumo forest, and he accidentally shot a man, and the man iu dying said, “God is just; I shot your father just here 20 years ago.” A bishop said to Louis XI of Franco, “Make uu iron cage for all tho^o who do not think as we do —an iron cage iu which tho captive can neither lie down nor stand straight up. ” It was fashioned—the awful instrument of punishment. After awhile the bishop offended Louis XI and for 14 years he was in that same cage and could neither lie down nor stand up. It is a poor rule that will not work both ways. “With what measure ye meto it shall bo meas ured to you agaiu.” Ub, my friends, let us be resolved to scold less and pray more! What headway will we make iu tho judgment if in this world wo have been bard on those who havo gone astray? What headway will you and I make iu tho lust great judgment when we must have mercy or perish? The Bible says, “They shall have judgment without mercy that showed no mercy.’’ I see the scribes of heaven looking up into tho face of such a man, saying: “What, you plead for mercy, you whom iu ell your life never had any mercy on your fellows? Don’t you re member how hard you were in your opinions of those who were astray? Don’t you remember when you ought to havo given a helping hand you employ- e-d a hard heel? Mercy! You must mis speak yourself when you plead fur mer cy here. Mercy for others, but no mercy for you. Look,” say tho scribes of heaven, "look at that inscription over tho throne ot judgment, tho throne of God’s judgment. ” boo it coining out latter by letter, word by word, sentence Ly sentence, until your startled vision reads it and your remorseful spirit ap propriate:! it: “With what measure ye meto it shall bo measured to you again. Depart, yo cursed!” ASH CLEANSES THE LIVER AND BOWELS AUD FORTIFIES THE SYSTEM TO RESIST FREVAILIRG DISEASES. PRICE •1.00 PER MOTTLE. SO lo BY ALL DRUGGISTS. t ASE~Cherokee Drug Co. Special Agents. Is a remedy of sterling value. It positively cures all Bronchial Affections, Cough, Cold, Croup, Bronchitis and Grippe. You can always rely on it. DR. BULL’S COUGH SYRUP is indispensable to every family. Price 25 cts._Shur^all substitutes. Chew LANGE'S PLUGS. The Great Tobacco Antidote.lOc. Dealer j or rr.aii.A.C.Keyer & Co.. Beito.-Md. CANDY CATHARTIC CURE CONSTIPATION JOc 25c 50c ALL DRUGGISTS ft? eiREE’) >0l " hi* demonrtrated ten thonsand times that it is ulniosi infaiiihiu FOR WOMAN’S PECULIAR WEAKNESSES, IrrejmUritie, and derangement*, it has become tho leading remedy for this class of troubles. It exerts & wonderfully healing, strength ening and soothing influence upon the menstrual organs. It cures • ’whites” ami falfingofthe womb. It stops flooding and relieves sup* . -t-J. C. JEFFERIES,4- • . , • ' t £ GAFFNEY, C. Attorney and Counsellor at I.av/. Practices i All the Courts. Collections a Specialty DR. CHAS. A. JEFFERIES,. Physician and Surg^n. Sl*F( IIA I.TI ESSUIIOF.i;Y. F.V F F.AR a V& THROAT. Office. Cherokee Drug Co’s ‘tore jk | Telephone No. 40. I * pressed and painful menstruation. For Change of Life it is the best medicine made. It is beneficial during pregnancy, and helps to bring children into homes barren for years. It invigorates, stitnu- li.es, strengthens the whole sys tem. This great remedy is offered to all afflicted women. Why will any woman sufier another minute with certain relic’ within reach? Wine of Cardui only costs $l.M) per bottle a: your drug store. For advice, in ease’s retfiiiriii'j npedal directions, address, giving symptoms, the “Ladies’ Advisory Department,” The Chattanooga Medicine Co., Chat tanooga, Tcnn. Rev. J. W. SMITH. Camden, S.C.. says: “My wife used Wine ut Cardui at home for felling of tho womb «mj it entirely cured her.’’ WINpSOfffVABO.BI’ Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. Jones Si Cc ’s Sirre Can bo found at otTioc six days In : iO w< t V. J. E. WEBSTER, Offieein Court Hoiisu.d’rolmto Judr'-'sof:. i Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec tions a soecialtv. IV. W. HARMIV, ATTORNEY AT LAW, I I SI tic U si >u rg; uml Otiffney, ». O. | W ILL practice In nil tho Courts. I n. he reached over the 'phono from i u ! - | roll Sc Ftney's Hunk, sit my office In lilacks- burg. sit any moment. O. L. Schcmpekt. Tnos. B. liCTLElr. W.m. McGowan. Skating Rink. If you wish to spend an even- SCHUMPERT,» BUTLER * & * McGOWAR., ingin delightful recreation and i attoi«w«v.*-at-ua'vv. healthful exercise go to the skai-j Lnion and Gafmey, S. C. ing rink, in the store-room re- 1 . '’'sly '' ; ‘ r '' fuI iin<l piomptsitteutijngiven * . . . .. . . to all busi?M*ss entrusted to ns. CUHtly tMVCtud by \\ . (). Lip-: t^riTuctioeinaU thecourts. . scomb A Rro., on (iranard St. , ————- NYw suites: first-class atU’u-jDR. J. F. GARRETT, tion given to ladies. None but t-n .11 i.i i i Dentist, those who conduct themselves Q a ff n properly admitted. Doorsopen 1 at <S o'clock ; skating, 10c an hour or 2oc for the evening. J. E. McARTIirR, Mgr. R. O. SAMS, Real Estate, Fire and Life Insurance. s. c. Office over J. R. Tolleson’s new storo In office f'.ora 1st to 2Gth of each month; At Blacksburg Thursday ir.orninir each week, returning to office at 2:!r. > Wm. Vrxito. .1 \s. Mo no, .1. n. . □ fidon. S. ('. l'uion.*>. e. o.i ■ i.-v. ' i ’ >.ITYX1^0 A; JYttok vs-.vt-I .aw. GAE^rsccv, m. e. Office over Fciurlc & I’rlco's furnii arc stun*. Mill jirsicticc In sill the eniii'ts i.* tic-S' , . , and I nited Sisites. All huslm—.ents nstec • Office dsiys. Mondays and Ssiturdsiy*. and us will receive prurnut uUcutiuii. other dsiys when not engaged. ] ! offer the foil ,winy rrsiI estsite lor : A Zi lu Coincidence. An extraordinary coincidence con nected with tho Zola trial was tho fact that while the novelist was being so plnckily defended iu cue court Ly Maitro Lubori iu another and adjoinin” court a man named Zola was condemned to three years’ hard labor for forniiiK tho j signature of a certain Mine. Lubori, neither the convict nor bis victim being iu any way connected with M. Emile Zulu or his idvocuto. 1 bcsuitlful residence lot Cor. Limt Music , mid Buford Mircts. 2 hcsiui it ill n "ddcnce lots on Hsice st rciiA 4 l.niui I fill nsidcnce lol s on VIcS I i:: A **’. | in Icsiiitiful residenc • lots on Hut ledge '>». fl.l hcsiutitu I residence lot s mi ITil rvlcu St. 4 Im'SiuI iful resilience lot s < n Johnson Si. 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