Pike County Democrat, Volume 30, Number 11, Petersburg, Pike County, 21 July 1899 — Page 7

STRAINING AT GNATS. $>r. Talmage Preaches on Hetman Inconsistency. make* (lit af aa Anelcif Eplcma t* Illustrate the Polly of MaaktaO~ 6 Prone to Ma«alfy Small Thiaie*. ileedle** of the Ureat. (Copyright, Lout* Kloppch, 1835.) "Washington. July 1C. In this discourse, founded on an anfdent epigram repeated by Christ, Dr. Talmage illustrate* the folly of being 'very particular about .insignificant 'things while neglectful of vast con* -«erns. The text in Matthew 23:21, “Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat ^«nd swallow a camel.” r A proverb is compact wisdom, knowledge in chunks, a library In a sentence, the electricity of many clouds discharged in one bolt, a river put through A mill race. When Christ quotes the proverb of the text. He means to set forth the ludicroi& behavior of those who make u great bluster about small -«ins and have no appreciation of great •ones. In my text a small insect and a large quadruped are brought into comparison—a gnat and a camel. You have in museum or on the desert seen the latter, a great awkward, sprawling creature, with back two stones :high and stomach having a collection ■of reservoirs for desert travel, an*anixnal forbidden to the Jews as food, and in many literatures entitled “the ship •of the desert.'’ The gnat spoken of in the text is in the grub form. It is boro in pool or pond, after a few weeks be•coraes a chrysalis, and then after a few •days becomes the gnat as we recognise it. But the insect spoken of in the text is in its very smallest shape, and it yet inhabits the water, for my text is a misprint, and ought to read “strain out a •Shot.” „ My text shows you the prince of in•consistencies. A man, after long ob

senation, who has formed the suspicion that in a cupful of water he is about to drink, there is a grub or the ^grandparent of a gnat.' He goes aud gets a sieve or a strainer. He takes the water and pours it through th£ sievo in 'the broad light. He says: “1 would rather do anything almost than drink this water until this larva be extirpated.” This water is brought under inquisition. The experiment Is successful.' The water rushes through the sieve and leaves against the side of the sieve the grub or gnat. Then the man •carefully removes the insect aud drinks the water in placidity. Hut going out one day, and hungry, ^e devours a “ship of the desert,” the camel, which the Jews were forbidden to eat. The gastronomer has no compunctions of conscience. He suffers from no indigestion. He puts the lower jaw under tJ|| camel’s forefoot, and his upper jaw over the hump of the camel’s back, and gives one swallow and the dromedary •disappears forever. He strained out a gnat, he swallowed a camel. While Christ \ audience was yet smiling at the appositeness and wit of his illustration—for smile they did, unless thevnvere too stupid to understand the hyperbole—Christ practically said to them: “That is you.” Punctilious about small things; reckless about affairs of great magnitude. Ko subject •ever winced under a surgeon’s knife more bitterly than did the Pharisees under Christ’s scalpel of truth. As an anatomist will take a human body to pieces and put the pieces under a mi^•croscope for examination, so Christ finds His way to the heart of the dead ■Pharisee and cuts it out and puts it tinder the glass of inspection for &11 .generations to examine.' Those Pharisees thought that Christ would hatter them and compliment them, and how they must have writhed under the red^ hot words as He said: “Ye fools, ye ■whited sepulchers, ye blind guides, which strain out a gnat and swallow a •. camel.” • ^ There are in our day a great many gnats strained out and a great many •camels swallowed, and it Js the object ■Of this sermon to sketch a few persons who are extensively engaged in that business. ^ First, I remark that all those ministers of the Gospel who are very scrupulous about the conventionalities of religion, but put no particular stress upon matters of vast importance, are photographed in the text. Church servj tees ought to be grave and solemn. There is no room for frivolity in religious convocation, but there are illustrations, and there are hyperboles like that of Christ in the text that will irradiate with smiles any intelligent -audience. There are roen^like those

uanu guides oi ane text wno auvooare 'only those things in religious service •which draw the corners of the mouth -down and denounce all those things which have a tendency to draw the corners of the mouth up, and these men •will go to installations, and to presbyteries, and to conferences, and to associations, their pockets full of fine sieves to strain out the gnats, while in *heir own churches at home every Sunday there are 50 people sound asleep. They make their churches a great •dormitory, and their somniferous Sermons are a cradle and the drawled out hymns a lullaby, while some wakeful «oul in a pew, with her fan, keeps the flies off unconscious persons approximate. Now, I say it is worse to sleep in •church than to smile in church, for the latter implies at least attention, while •the former implies the indifference of the hearers and the stupidity of the ■speaker. j In old age, or from physical infirmity, or from long watching with the sick, drowsiness will sometimes overpower cme, but when a minister qt the ’Gospel looks off upon an audience and finds healthy and intelligent people -struggling with drowsiness it is time for him to give out the doxology or -oronounce the benediction. The greet — r ■ 'V - -V' - ■ . •

fault of church services to-day *a not too much vivacity, but *oo much somnolence. The one is an irritating gnat that may be easily strained out, the other is a great sprawling and sleepyeyed camel of the dry desert, in all our Sabbath schools, in all our Hible classes, in all our pulpits, we need to brighten up our religious message With such Christlike vivacity as we bud in the text. j „ , Oh. how particular a great many people are about the Inllnltesimals while they are quite reckless a bout the magnitudes! What did Christ say? J)id He not excoriate the people in his time who were so careful to wash their hands before s meal, but did not wash their hearts? It is a bad thing to have unclean hands. It is a worse thing to have an unclean heart. How mapy people thtrea^e in our time who are very anxioufnhat after their deith they shall be bulled with their faces toward the east and not at ail anxious that during their whole life they should face in the right direction, so that they shall come up in the resurrection of the just, whichever way they are buried^ How many there are chiefly anxious that a minister of yhe Gospel shall come in the line of apostolic succession, not caring so much whether he copies from Apostle Paul or Apostle Judas! They have a way of measuring a gnat until it is larger than a camel. Again, my subject photographs all those who are abhorrent of small sins while they are, reckless in regard to magnificent thefts. You will find many a merchant who, while he is so careful that he would not take a yard

of cloth or a spool of cotton from the counter without paying for it, and who, if a bank cashier should make a mistake and send in a roll of bills live dollars too much, would dispatch a messenger in hot haste to return the surplus, yet who will go into a stock company, in which after awhile he gets control of the stock, and then waters the stock and makes $100,000 appear like $200,000. He only stole $100,000 by the operation. Many of the men of fortune made their wealth in that way. One of those men engaged in such unrighteous acts that evening, the evening of the very day when he watered the stock, will find a wharf rat stealing a daily paj^er from the basement doorway* and will go out and catch the urchin by the collar and twist the collar so tightly the poor fellow' has no power to say that it was thirst for knowledge that led him to the dishonest act, but grip the collar tighter and tighter, saying: “1 have been looking for you a long while. You stole my paper four or five times, haven’t you, you miserable wretch?” And then the old stock gambler, with a voice they can hear three blocks, will cry out: “Police, police!” That same man the evening of the day in w hich he watered the stock will kneel with his family in prayers and thank God for the prosperity of the day, then kiss his children good night with an air which seems to say: “I hope you all will grow up to be as good as your father.” Prisons for sins insect ile in size, bi$ palaces for crimes dromedarian. No mercy for sins animalcule in proportion, but great leniency for mastodon iniquity. A poor boy slyly takes from the basket of a market woman a choke pear5—saving some one else from the cholera—and you smother him in the horrible atmosphere of Raymond street jail or New York tombs, while his cousin, who has been skillful enough to steal $50,000 from the city, you make a candidate for the state legislature. There is a good deal of uneasiness and nervousness now’ among some people in our time who have got unrighteous fortunes—a great deal of uneasiness about dynamite. I tell them that God will put under their unrighteous fortunes something more explosive than dynamite—the earthquake of His omnipotent indignation. It is time that. we learn in America that sin is not excusable in proportion as it declares large dividends and has outriders in equipage. Many a man is riding to perdition, postilion ahead and lackey behind. To steal one copy of a newspaper is a gnat; to steal many thousands of dollars is a camel. There is many a fruit dealer w’ho would not eonsent to steal a basket of peaches from a neighbor's stall, but who w’ould not scruple to depress the fruit market, and as long as I can remember we have heard every summer the peach crop of Maryland is

a failure, ana by the time the crop comes in the misrepresentation makes a difference of millions of dollars. A man who would not steal one basket of peaches steals 50,000 baskets of peaches. Go down into the public library, in the reading-rooms, and see the newspa-per-reports of the crops from all parts of the country, and their phraseology is very much the same, and the same men wrote them, methodically and infamously carrying out the huge lying abouf the grain crop from year to year and for a score of years. After awhile there will be a “corner” in the wheat market, and the men who had a contempt for petty theft will burglarize the wheat bin of a nation and commit larceny upon the American corn crib. And some of the men will sit in churches and in reformatory institutions trying to strain out the small gnats of scoundrelism, while in their grain elevators and in their storehouses they are fattening large camels which they expect after awhile to swallow. Society has to be entirely reconstructed on this subject. We are to find that a sin is inexcusable in proportion as it is great. 1 know in our time the tendency is to charge religious frauds upon good men. They say; “Oh, what a host of frauds you have in the church of God in this day! ” And when the elder of a church, or a deacon, or a minister of the Gospel, or a superintendent of a Sabbath school turns out a defaulter, what display heads there are in many of the newspapers! Great primer type. Five-line pica. “Another Saint Absconded,” “Clerical Scoundrelism,” “Religion at a Discount,” “Shame on the Churches,” while there are a thousand scoundrels

outside the church to one inside the church, and the misbehavior of those who never see the inside of a church is so great that it is enough to tempt a man to become a Christian to get out of their company. But in all circles, religious and irreligious, the tendency is to excuse sin in proportion as it is mammoth. Even John Milton in his “1‘aradise Lost,** while he condemns Satan, gives such a grand description ot him you have bird work to withhold your admiration. Oh, this straining out of small sins like gnats and this gulping down great iniquities like cam* els! This subject does not give the picture of one or two persons, but is a gallery in which thousands of people may see their likenesses. For instance, all those people who, while they would not rob their neighbors of a farthing, appropriate the money and the treasure of the public. A man has a house to seli, and he tells hi* customer it is worth $20,000. Next day the assessor comes around aud the owner says it is worth $)5,000. The government of the United States took off the ta? from personal income, among other reasons, because so few people would tell the truth, and many a man with an income of hundreds of dollars a day made statements which seemed to imply he was about to be handed over to the overseers of the

jKXjr* lareiui to pay tneir passage from Liverpool to New York, yet smuggliug in their Saratoga trunk ten silk dresses from Paris and a half dozen watches from Geneva, Switzerland, telling the custom house officer on the wharf: “There is nothiug in that trunk but wearing apparel.” and putting a fivedollar gold piece in bis hand to punctuate the statement. Described in the text are all those who are particular never to break the law of grammar and who want all their language an elegant specimen of syntax, straining out all the inaccuracies of speech with a fine sieve of literary criticism, while through their conversation go slander and innuendo and profanity and falsehood larger than a whole caravan of camels, when they might better fracture every law of the language and shock their intellectual taste, and better let every,verb seek in vain for its nominative and every noun for its government, and let every preposition lose its way in the sentence, and adjectives and participles and pronouns get into a grand riot worthy of the Fourth ward of New York on election da}-, than to commit a, moral inaccuracy. Better swallow a thousand gnats than one camel. * Such persons are also described in the text who are very much alarmed about the small faults of others and have no alarm about their own great transgressions. There are in every community and in every church watchdogs who feel called upon to keep their eyes on others and growl. They are full of suspicions. They wonder if this man is not dishonest, if that tnan is not unclean, "if there is not something wroug rabout the other man. They are always the first to hear of anything wrong. Vultures are always the first to smell carrion. They are self-appointed detectives. I layithis down as a rule without any exception, that those people who have the most faults themselves are most merciless in their Watchings of others. From scalp of head to sole of foot they are full of jealousies and hypercriticisms. They spend their life in hunting for muskrats and mud turtles iustead of hunting for Rocky mountain eagles, always for something mean instead of something grand. They look at their neighbors’ imperfections through a microscope and look at th&jr own imperfections through a telescope upside down. Twenty faults of their own do not hurt them so much as one fault of somebody else. Their neighbors’ imperfections are like gnats, and they strain them out; their own imperfections are like camels, and they

swallow them. But lest too many might think thej^ escape the scrutiny of the text. I have to tell you that we all come under the Divine satire when we make the questions of time more prominent than the questions of eternity. Come, now, let us all go into the confessional. Are not all tempted to make the question: Where shall I live now? greater than the question: Where shall I live forever? How shall 1 get more dollars here? greater than the question: How shall I lay up treasures in Heaven ? The question: How shall 1 pay my debts to man? greater than the question: How shall 1 meet my obligations to God? The question": How shall 1 gain the world? greater than the question: What if t lose my soul? The question: Why did God let sin come into the world? gTeaterthan the question: How shall I get it extirpated from my nature? The question: What shall 1 do with the 20 or 40 o$ 70 years of my sub-lunar existence? greater than the question: What shall 1 do with the millions of cycles of my post terrestrial existence? Time—how small it is! Eternity—how vast it is! The former more insignificant in comparison with the latter than a gnat is insignificant when compared with a camel. We dodged the text. We said: “That does not mean me, and that 'does not mean me,’* and with a ruinous benevolence we are giving the whole sermon away. But let us all surrender to the charge. What an ado . about things here! What poor preparation i4r a great eternity! As though a minnow were larger than a behemoth; as though a'swallow took wider circuit than an albatross, as though a nettle were taller than a Lebanon cedar, as though a gnat were greater than a camel, as though a minute were longer than a century, as though time were higher, deeper, broader than eternity. So the text which flashed with lightning of wit as Christ uttered it is followed by the crashing thunders of awful catastrophe to those who make the questions of time greater than the questions of the future, the oncoming, overshadowing future. Oh! Eternity Eternity! Eternity 1

A. BIRTHDAY PRESENT IT WAS a big shop, with big, beautiful! window*, wherein were writing ease* ef polished green morocco, letter cases elf sweet-smelling Russian leather, cigar cases of manly and even bloodthirsty crocodile —erery kind of ease in every kind of nuterial; there were miniature silver candlesticks for your writing table, holding rel wax candkcules; there were thick.sticks t £ sealing wax in the palest heliotrope to l« used in conjunction with them; there weie calendars, and lamps, and dressing casei, and hunting flasks, and gan-metal penci s for the pocket. It was a realty good shop, one which justified the placard which appeared in every or is of the vast plate glass windows: - ..*.> BIRTHDAY PRESENTS IN GREAT VARIETY. : A beautifully dressed schoolgirl, with slna i black legs and a red jacket and big, thought- | ful eyes, stood and stared into the window. As she gazed her eyes became still m<; re I thoughtful. Then she heaved a little sigh I and walked in. Somebody said, severely: “Forward, please!” and a moment later a young man with a frock coat and his fair hair parted in the middle was smiling at her as vehemer :ly as if he had been paid for it, whieh, ai a matter of fact, was the case. She said, timidly : “I want a birthday present.” •‘Certainly,” said the young man, with geniality. “Would it be for a gentleman or for a lady?” “It's for a girl, 15 years old to-day.” “You’re just in time,” said the young man to encourage her. “Anything which you are pleased to order shall be sent off at once; and we can inclose any card or letter which you wish to sendNvith it.” “Thank you,” said the giri, prettily. “Had you thought of any particular object?” “No, I thought I would leave that to you.” “Well, we have a great variety. There is a very pretty manicure set in celluloid, to look like ivory; 12 pieces; a miniature of an eighteenth-century lady is let into the lid of the box. Now, that is a very charming present, and we've sold a great many of them.” “Thanks,” said the schoolgirl; “they’re very pretty. Have you anything else?” _ “Well,” said the young man, “we are just introducing quite a new thing in work baskets.” “Yes, I should like to look at it if you would take it out of the baskets.” “What I meant was that the whole idea of the work basket was novel—in faet, we are only just putting it on the market. It is made of celluloid, shaped to look like the egg of the ostrich; it is lined with green silk, contains scissors, needle case, hall-marked silver thimble, compartments for cottons, buttons, and so on.” “Yes,” said the schoolgirl, “it looks very useful, and I'll take it if you like. I don’t want to give too much trouble. But the person for whom I wanted the present never does any work.” “No trouble, no trouble, no trouble,” 6aid the young man> shrilly, and with enthusiasm. “Would you like me to show you something further? Here is a very interesting paper knife made of celluloid in the shape of a serpent. The tail of the serpent lifts out and discloses a small pencil case, as you see. Our own invention; a most useful adjunct for the writing table. We can do this at a dollar ninety-eight. Perhaps you’d like something uioij* expensive?” “Well,” said the girl, timidly, “I feel as If I ought not to say it, but I think I should like something much more expensive.” > “Quite so; certainly. Pardon me one mo

mem. He adjusted a ladder, ran up a fitment, and returned with a cardboard box held carefully in his hand. He whipped off the cover, ejaculated: “Stationery cabinet. Very handsome thing,” and pushed it over to the girl. “What,” she said, thoughtfully, “is this made of celluloid to resemble?” “Oh, this is not celluloid,” he answered, very seriously, with a drop in his voice; “this is distinctly an important present. You might give it to anybody. Real tortoiseshell* guaranteed. I doubt if we have a better stationery cabinet in the whole establishment. Beautiful work; all solid. Marked $27: say $25.” " “Twenty-five dollars,” said the girl, thoughtfully and obediently. The young man gazed at her with a moment’s distrust, and went on: _ “I couldn’t show you a finer thing than this, or one which is better worth buying, and I’ll tell you why. In a year’s time,” he said, confidentially, “this will be worth $30, or even more. The fact is that tortoiseshell is becoming rarer every year. It’s going up. Well, you’d hardly believe the rate at which it is going up.” “Oh,” she said, “I thought it was a stationary cabinet.” The young man looked still more distrustful, but he was speedily reassured. “Thanks, I’ll take it,” she said. “Many, many thanks. It is really too good of you.” “No trouble, no trouble, no trouble,” repeated the young man shrilly as before. “Always delighted to show you anything. James, pack this. Would you prefer to have it sent or will you take it with you?” “Thanks,” said the girl, “I’ll take it with me. It is reallyutoo good of you. I can’t think why you should do it.” “Now,” the young man continued, “would you like to have your account receipted while the article is being packed up? It was marked $27, but I think*we said $25.” “Yes,” she replied, “we both said it.” “Or, perhaps,” the young man continued, a little feverishly, “you would prefer to pay for it on delivery?” “Certainly not,” she said; “it is not in any danger, and I don’t Avant it delivered. 1*11 take it with me, and of course I sha’n’t pay for it. It’s a birthday present.” “So I understood,” said the young man; “but of course you must pay for it before you can give it aAvay.” “I’m not going to give it away—I’m going to keep it myself. It’s my birthday, and I wanted a present, and I saw your notice in the AvindoAv. What do you put such Hungs for iu the AAindoAV if you don’t mean them? You only mislead people. Are you going to give roe that real tabby stationery ease made of celluloid to look like an ostrich’s egg, or are you going to give me the new thing in paper knives, or what ?** “This is a shop,” said the young man, with dignity. “It is not a place for playing the fool.” “Then you shouldn’t have misled me with these notices, and made me Avaste the best part of 20 minutes in talking to you ” Seeing that a small shoal of customers had entered, she continued, raising her voice: “And I shall warn everybody I knew never to have anything to do with suon a dishonest and useless establishment.” Then she walked out in search of soms quiet place where she could laugh all by herself for an hour or so.—Barry Pan, in Saturday Evening Post,

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