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THE LEDGER; GAFFNEY, 8. C., MARCH 31, 1898.
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' 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
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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!”
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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. .
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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.
Is bene,tit'uI residence l.gson linford St.
I:’ liesiuiiful resell n - e lots on Smil!: V.
it besi’.st If u I n siden. e lets on C.,nl innut |i ui
Krederiel. -.1 reel.
fl besilll II III I e^h'egee lots on Logan • t feel.
it iH'UUtifnl t"vd nee lots on Depot si ref..
1 is'jtutifui residesiee lot on Limestone and
Montgomery st seels.
ii lots on .Mills Gap rosid, 2 7-ln sic res each, '
tine lo<-::tIon.
I cottage fronting Montgomery st reel.
1 cottage fronting Logan street.
linlots near continuation of Limestone St
in easy walk os' the factory.
125 acres imsir i'n'< n road, 2 iiiilci froto Liavc- 1
stone I list ilnte,
:in2 uctes, well uiMideil, on I’nlon road. 4'»
miles from Gnlfiioy.
1X7 acres near liro.td Ulvcr, hy magnlflcont
water powrs.
2 trsiels. well watered, 2‘i miles from t.aff-
ney. on rosu) to I'.icolet.
is I-'.’ acres 1 1 utlh from eorpornte limits,
in 2-J acres *,i mile from cor,mi ate limits.
52 acres Jus! outside I hr corporate limits.
1 house and lot. eonveuient to business, on
I >cjM>t si reel.
20 lols on Buford, Jefferies anti Montgom- ,
t ry streets.
122 acres, finely set I led, Just beyond corpo
rate limits.
xn shares (iaffnry Land and Improvement
Company.
Your ItusTicsa In tl -se lines Is respectfully
solicited.
EAKER & SCRUGGS.
f.I'M IIITICMICX.
II I . I X-s, - - .
All kinus of lumber sawed to * iler •*?
-'■lort notice. I !;■ irlng. ceiling. et.i.. c>
stantly on hand, til orders will reevi ,-
prompt at tent io.-t. \V:;i its when;. "Un <1
iiuylhiiig In our line. 5-.1-4I >•)
j» -ft •* V
The Best
Is always the checpcst,
j* sind you c,ii alwtn's .' t :lie best Savh.
Blirds, Doors and all kinds of Building
Material, including No i Keart-pine
Shingles from L. Hal : clicaia r fog
cash t halt on t ’me.
I buy for ca. Iliad eoi. 't|iicnt ly get ffc
hur;
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I Will Hake your Estimates
lor Material* f rec ci Chirac.
Very
spet.