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AMEEICUS, GEORGIA; SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1882.
TABERNACLE SERMONS.
BY REV. T. BeWITT TALMAGE
UNFAIRNESS.
‘‘With what measure ye mete, it shall he
measured to you again.”—St. Matthew,vii.,2
In the greatest sermon ever preached
—a sermon about fifteen minutes long,
according to the ordinary rate of speech
—a sermon on the Mount of Olives, the
preacher sitting while He spake, ac
cording to the ancient mode of oratory,
the people were given to understand
that the same yardstick that they em
ployed upon others would be employed
upon themselves. Measure others by a
harsh rule and yon will be measured by
a charitable rule. Give no mercy
to others and no mercy will be given to
you. “With what measure ye mete,
it shall be measured to you again.”
There is a great deal of unfairness in
the criticism of human conduct. It
was to smite that unfairness that Christ
uttered the words of the text, aud my
sermon will be a re-echo of the divine
sentiment. In estimating the misbe
haviors of others we must take into
consideration the pressure ot circum
stances. It is never right to do wrong,
but there are degrees of culpability.
When men misbehave or commit some
atrocious wickedness, wo are disposed,
indiscriminately, to tumble them all
over the bank of condemnation. Suffer
they ought, and suffer they must, but
in difference of degree.
In the first place, in estimating the
misdoing of others, we must take into
calculation the hereditory tendency.
There is such a thing as good blood,
and there is such a thing as bad blood.
There are families that have had a
moral twist in them for a hundred years
back. They have not been careful to
keep the family record in that regard.
There have been escapades and maraud
ings and scoundrelisms and moral de
ficits all the way back, whether you
call it kleptomania or pyromania or
dipsomania, or whether it be in a mild
er form and amount to no mania at all.
The strong probability is that the pres
ent criminal started life with nerve,
muscle and bone contaminated. As
some start life with a natural tendency
to nobility and generality and kindness
and truthfulness, there are others who
start life with just theopposite tendency
and they are born liars, or born mal
contents, or born outlaws or born Bwin
dlers. 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
supported by high patronage. I had
the pleasure of being present at one of
their anniversaries in 1879, presided
over by the Earl of Kintore. By a wise
law in England,after parents have com
mitted a certain number of crimes, and
thereby show themselves incompetent
rightly to bring up their children, the
little ones are taken from under perni
cious influences and put in reformatory
schools, where all gracious and kindly
influences shall be brought upon them.
Of course,the .experiment is young, and
it has yet to be demonstrated how large
a percentage of the children of convicts
may be brought up to respectability
and usefulness. But we all know that
it is more difficult for children of bad
parentage to do right than for children
of good parentage. In this country we
are taught by the Declaration of Amer
ican Independence that all people are
born equal. There never was a greater
misrepresentation put in one sentence
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 one horse cost SIOO and another
horse cost $5,000? Why does one
sheep cost $lO and another sheep cost
$500? Difference in blood. We all
are wise enough to recognize the differ
ence of blood in horses, in cattle, in
sheep, but we are not wise enough to
make allowance for the difference in
human blood. Now, I demand by the
law of eternal fairness that you be more
lenient in your criticism of those who
were born wrong, in whose ancestral
line there was a hangman’s knot, or
who came from a tree the fruit of which
for centuries has been gnarled and
worm-eaten. Dr. Harris, a reformer,
gave some marvellous statistics in his
story of what he called “Margaret, the
Mother of Criminals.” Ninety years
ago she lived in a village in upper New
York State. She was not only poor,
but she wasvicious. She 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 fur
ther down in her crimes. That was
ninety years ago. There have been
628 persons in that ancestrial line, 200
of them criminals. In one branch of
that family there were twenty and nine
of them have been in State prison, and
nearly all of the others have turned out
badly. It is estimated that that family
cost the conutry and State SIOO,OOO, to
say nothing of the property they de
stroyed. Are you not willing, as sen
sible people, to acknowledge that it is a
fearful disaster to be born in 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 son of Ahab or the son of
Joshna? It is a very different thing
to swim with the current from what it
is to Bwim against the current, as some
of you have, no doubt, found in your
summer recreation. If aman find him
self in an ancestrial current where there
is goed blood flowing smoothly from
generations to generations, it is not a
"very great credit to him if he turn out
good and honest and pure and upright
and noble. He could hardly help it.
But suppose he is born in an ancestrial
line, where the influence have been bad
and there has been a coming down over
a moral declivity, if the man surrender
to the influences he will go down under
the overmastering gravitation unless
some superhuman aid be afforded him.
Now, such a person deserves not your
excoriation but your pity. I)o not sit
with the lip curled in scorn and with
an assumed air ot angelic innocence
looking down upon such moral precip
itation. You had better get down on
yonr knees and first pray Almighty God
for the rescue, aud next thank the Lord
that you have not been thrown under
the wheels of that Juggernaut. In
Great Britain and the United States, in
every generation, there are tens of thou
sands of persons who are fully develop
ed criminals and incarcerated. I say
in every generation. Then I suppose
there are tens of thousands of persons
not found in their criminality. In ad
dition to them there are tens of thous
ands of persons who, not positively be
coming criminals, nevertheless have a
criminal tendency. Anyone of all those
thousands, by the grace of God, may
become a Christian,and resist the ances
trial influence and open anew chapter
of behavior, but the vast majority of
them will not, and it becomes all men,
professional and unprofessional, minis
ters of religion, judges of courts, phil
anthropists and Christian workers, to
recognize the fact that there are these
Atlantic and Pacific surges of heredity
evil rolling on through the centuries.
I say, of course, a man can resist this
tendency just as in the ancestrial line
mentioned in the first chapter of Mat
thew. Yon see in the same line in
which there was a wicked Reheboam
and desperate Manassas, there after
ward came a pious Joseph and a glori
ous Christ. But, my triends, you must
recognize the fact that these influences
go on from generation to generation. 1
am glad to know, however, that a river
which has produced nothing but mias
ma for a hundred miles may after a
while turn the wheels of factories, and
help support industrious and virtuous
populations, and there are family lines
which were poisoned that are a benedic
tion now. At the last day it will be
found out that there are men who have
gone clear over into all forms of in
iquity and plunged into utter abandon
ment, who before they yielded to the
first temptation resisted more evil than
many a man who has been moral and
upright all his life. I suppose you are
all good men and women. There never
were so many good people as there are
now in the world. Of all the centuries
this the best century, and of all the de
cade, and of all the years this is the
best year, and of all the months this is
the best month, and of all the days this
is the best day. We stand this mo
ment at the apex of six thousand years
of progress. It is easier now to raise a
thousand dollars for a charitable object
than it used to he to raise ten cents.
The world is five hundred per cent,
better now than it used to be. But sup
posing now that in this age,when there
are so many good people, you are the
very best. Supposing all that, I will
come down into this audience and I will
select the very best man m it. 1 do not
mean the man who would style himself
the best, for he probably 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 you in a depraved home. I
will put you in a cradle of iniquity.
Who is that bending over that cradle?
An intoxicated mother. Who is that
swearing in the next room? Your fa
ther. The neighbors come in to talk
and their jokes are unclean. There is
not in the house a Bible or a moral
treatise, but only a few scraps of an old
pictorial. After a while you are old
enough to get out of the cradle, and you
are struck across the head for naughti
ness, but never in any kindly manner
reprimanded. After a while you are
old enough to go abroad, and you are
sent out with a basket to steal. If you
come home without any spoils ycu are
whipped until the blood comes. At
fifteen years of age you go out to fight
your own battles in this world, which
seems.to care no more for you than for
the dog that has died of a fit under the
fence. You are kicked and enffed and
buffeted. Some day, rallying your
courage, you resent some wrong. A
man say3: “Who are you? I know who
you are. Your father had free lodging
at Sing Sing. Your mother—she was
up for drunkenness at the Tombs Court.
Get out of my way, you low-lived
wretch!” My brother, suppose that
had been the history of your advent and
the history of your earlier surroundings
would you have been the Christian man
you are this morning, seated in the
honse of God? I tell you nay. You
would have been a vagabond, an out
law, a murderer on the scaffold atoning
for your crime. All these considera
tions ought to'make us merciful in onr
dealings with the wandering and the
lost.
Again, I have to remark, that in onr
estimate of the misdoing of the people
who have fallen from' high respectabil
ity and usefulness, we must take into
consideration the conjunction of circum
stances. In nine cases out of ten a man
who goes astray does not intend any
positive wrong. He has trust funds;
He risks a part of those funds in invest
ment; He says; “Now if I should lose
that investment I have my own proper
ty, five times as much, and if this in
vestment should go wrong I could eas
ily make it up; I could five times make
it up.” With that wrong reasoning
he goes on and makes the investment
and it does not turn out quite as well
as he expected, and he makes another
investment, and, strange to say, at the
same time all his other affairs get entan
gled, and all his other resources fail,
and his hands are tied. Now he wants
to extricate himself. He goes a little
further on in the wrong investment.
He takes a plunge further ahead, for
he want3 to save his wife and children,
he wants to save his home, he wants to
save his membership in the church.
He takes one more plunge and all is
lost. Some morning at if) o’clock the
bank door is not opened, and there is a
card ou the door, signed by an officer
of the bank, indicating them is trouble,
and the name of the defaulter or the
defrauder heads the newspaper column,
and hundreds of men say, “Good for
him!” hundreds of other men say, “I’m
glad it’s found out at last;” hundreds
of other men say, “Just as I told you;”
hundreds of other men say, “I couldn’t
possibly have been tempted to do that;
no conjunction of circumstances could
ever have overthrown me,” and there is
the sun. Your children’s mirth was
once music to you. Now, it is deafen
ing. Yousay, “Boy s,stop that racket!”
You turn back from June to March. In
the family and in the neighborhood your
popularity is ninety-five per cent. off.
The world says; “What is the matter
with that disagreeable man? what a
woebegone countenance! I can’t bear
the sight of him.” You have got your
pay at last—got your pay. You feel
just as that man felt, that man for
whom you had no mercy, and my text
comes in with marvelous appositeness:
“With what measure ye mete, it shall
be measured to you again!” In the study
of society I have come to this conclu
sion, that the most of the people want
to be good, but they do not exactly
know how to make it out. They make
enough good resolutions to lift them
into angelhood. The vast majority of
people who fall are the victims of cir
cumstances; they are captured by am
buscade. If their temptations should
come out in a regiment and fight them
in a fair field, they would go out in the
strength and the triumph of David
against Goliath. But they do not see
the giant and they do not see the regi
ment. Suppose temptation should come
up to a man and say; “Here is alcohol;
take three tablespoonsful of it a day un
til you get dependent upon it; then, af
ter that, take half a glass three times a
day until you get dependent ypon that
amount; then go on increasing the
amount until you are saturated from
morning until night, and from night
until morning?” Do you suppose any
man would become a drunkard in that
way? Ah! no. Temptation comes and
says: Take these bitters, take this ner
vine, take this nightcan.” The vast
majority of men and women who are
destroyed by opium and by rum first
take them as medicine. In making up
your dish of criticism in regard to them
take from the castor the crust of sweet
oil and not the crust of Cayenne pepper.
Be easy on them. Do you know how
that physician, that lawyer, that jour
nalist became tho victim of dissipation?
Why, the physician was kept up night
by night on professional duty. Life
and death hovered in the balance.
His nervous system was exhausted.
There came a time of epidemic and
whole families were prostrated, and his
nervous strength was gone. He was
all worn out in the service of the pub
lic. Now, he must brace himself up.
Now, he stimulates. The life of this
mother, the life of this child, the life
of this father, the life of this whole
family, must be saved, and of all these
families, must be saved, and he stimu
lates, and he does it again aud again.
You may criticise his judgment, but
remember the process. It was not a
selfish process by which he went down.
It was magnificent generosity through
which he fell. The attorney at the bar
for weeks has been standing in a poorly
ventilated court room listening to the
testimony and contesting in the dry
technicalities of the law, and now the
time has come for him to wind tip, and
he must plead for his life of his client,
and his nervous sy stem is all gone. If
he fail in that speech his client perishes.
If he have eloquence enough in that
hour his client is saved. He stimulates.
He must keep up. He says, “I must
keep up.” Having a practice, you see
how he is enthralled. You may crit
icise his judgment, but remember the
process. Do not be hard. That jour
nalist has had exhausting midnight
work. He has had to report speeches
and orations that kept him up till a
very late hour. He has gone with
much exposure working up some case
of crime in company with a detective.
He sits down at midnight to write out
his notes from a memorandum scrawled
on a pad under most unfavorable cir
cumstances. His strength is gone.
Fidelity to the public intelligence,
fidelity to his own livelihood, demands
that he keep up. He must keep np.
He stimulates. Again and again he
does that and he goes down. You
may criticise his judgment in the mat
ter, bnt have mercy. Remember the
process. Do not be hard.
My friends, this text will come to
fulfilment in some cases in this world.
The huntsman in Farinsteen was shot
by some unknown person. Twenty
years after, the son of the huntsman
was in the same forest and he ac
cidentally shot a man, and the man in
dying said, “God is just; I shot your
father just here twenty years ago.” A
bishop said to Louis XI., of France:
“Make an iron cage for all those who
do not think as we do—an iron cage
in which the captive can neither lie
down nor stand straight np.” It was
fashioned the awful instrument of
punishment. After a while the bishop
offended Louis XI. and for fourteen years
he was in that cage, and could neither
lie down nor stand up, Tit for tat.
It is a poor rule that will not work both
ways. “With what measure ye mete,
it shall be measured to you again.”
Robespierre sends innocent people to
guillatine. Time passes on, and Robes
pierre, by that very instrument, is de
capitated, Maximinuß has the eyes of
Christains put out. He dies with a
disease of the eyes. Valens has Chris
tians burned to death in escaping from
their pursuers. He is buined to death
in Bis own house. The Donatists threw
the holy sacrament of Jesus Christ to
the dogs They themselves were de
voured by the dogs. “With what
measure ye mete, it shall he measured
to you again.” O, my friends, let us
go home resolved to scold less and pray
more. That which in the Bible is used
as the symbol of all gracious influences
is the dove, not the porcupine. We
may so unskilfully manage the lifeboat
that we shall run down those whom we
want to rescue. The first preparation
a superabundance of indignation, but
no pity. The heavens full of lightning,
but not one drop of dew. If God treat
ed us as society treats that man, we
would all have been in hell long ago!
Wait for the alleviating circumstances.
Perhaps he may have been the dupe of
others. Before yon let all your hounds
out from their kennel to maul or tear
that man, find out if he has not been
brought up in a commercial establish
ment where there was a wrong system
of ethics taught; find out whether that
man has notan extravagant wife who is
not satisfied with his honest earnings,
and in the temptation to please her he
has gone into that ruin into which
enough men have fallen, and by the
same temptation, to make a procession
from New York Battery to Central
Park. Perhaps some sudden sickness
may have touched his brain, and his
judgment may be unbalanced. He is
wrong, he is awfully wrong, and he
must be condemned, but 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 rigTiteous in
dignation if you must about that man’s
conduct, but temper it with mercy. But
you say, “I am sorry that the innocent
should suffer.” Yes, lam too—sorry
for the widows and orphans who lost
their all by that defalcation. I am
sorry also for the business men, the
honest business men who have had their
affairs all crippled by that defalcation.
I am sorry for the venerable bank pres
ident, in whom the credit of that bank
was a matter of pride. Yes, lam sor
ry also for that man who brought all
the distress,sorry that he sacrificed body
mind, soul, reputation, heaven, and
went into tho blackness of darkness
forever. You defiantly say, “I could
not be tempted in that way.” 'Perhaps
you may he tested after a while. God
has a very good memory, and He some
times seems to say, “This man feels so
strong in his innate power and goodness
he shall be tested; he is so full of bitter
invective against that unfortunate, it
shall be shown now whether he has the
power to stand.” Fifteen years go by.
The wheel of fortune turns several
times, and you are iri 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 fel
low who was so proud of his integrity
and who bragged he couldn’t be over
thrown by temptation, and was so up
roarious in his demonstrations of indig
nation at the defalcation fifteen years
ago. Let us see.”
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 in your office in great excitement.
One of two things you can do. Be
honest and be pauperized, and have
your children brought home from school,
your family dethroned in social 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 have a
larger property, you can leave a fortune
for your children, and endow a college
and build a public library in your na
tive 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 hand trembles, how dreadfully it
trembles. The die is cast. By the
strangest and most awful conjunction
of circumstances anyone could have
imagined you are prostrated. Bank-
JjjKg’tcy, commercial annihilation, ex-
V crime. Good men mourn and
devils hold carnival, and yon 6ee your
own name at the head of the newspaper
column in a whole congress of excla
mation points, and while you are read
ing the anathema in the reportorial and
editorial paragraph, it occurs to yon
how much this story is like that of the
defalcation fifteen years ago, and a clap
of thunder shakos the window-sill,say
ing, “With what measure ye mete, it
shall be measured to yon again!” You
look in another direction. There is
nothing like an ebullition of temper to
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put a man to disadvantage. You, a
man with calm pulses and oxine diges
tion and perfect health, cannot under
stand how anybody should be capsized
in temper by an infinitesimal annoy
ance. Yon say, “I couldn’t be unbal
anced in that way.” Perhaps you smile
at a provocation that makes another
man swear. You pride yourself on
your imperturbability. Yon say with
your manner, though you have too
much good taste to say it with your
words, “I have a great deal more sense
than that man has, I have a great deal
more equipose of temper than that man
has. I never could make such a pro
file exhibition of myself as that man
has made.” My brother, you do not
realize that that man was born with a
keen, nervous organization, that for
forty years he has been under a deplet
ing process, that sickness and trouble
have been helping undo what was left
of original healthfulness, that much of
his time it has been with him like filing’
saws, that his nerves have come to be
merely a tangle of disorders, and that
he is the most pitiable object on earth,
who, though he is very sick, does not
look sick and nobody sympathizes!
Let me see. Did you not say that you
could not be tempted to an ebullition of
temper? Some September you came
home from your summer watering place,
and you have inside, away back in your
liver or spleen, what we call in our day
malaria, but what the old folks called
chills and fever. Yon take quinine
until your ears are first buzzing bee
hives and then roaring Niagaras. You
take roots and herbs, you take every
thing. You get well. But the next
day yon teel uncomfortable, and yon
yawn, and yon stretch, and you shiver,
and you consume, and you suffer. Vex
ed more than you can tell, you cannot
sleep, you cannot eat, you cannot bear
to see anything that looks happy, you
go out to kick the cat that is asleep in
tor Christain uesfulness is warm
hearted common sense, practical sym
pathy for those whom we want to
save. W hat headway will we make
in the judgment, in the world if we
have been hard on those who have gone
astray? W hat headway will you and
I make in the last great judgement
when we must have mercy or perish?
The Bible says. “They shall have
judgement without mercy that showed
no mercy.” I see the scribes of heaven
looking up into the face of such a man
saying: “What! you plead for
mercy, you, who in all your life
never had any mercy on your fellows.
Don’t you remember how hard you
were in your opinions ot those who
went astray? Don’t you remember
when you ought to have given a
helping hand you imploved a hard
heel? Mercy! You must misspeak
yourself when you plead for mercy here.
Mercy for others, but no mercy for
you, “Look!” say the scribes of
heaven, “look at that inscription over
the throne of judgement, the throne of
God’s judgement.” See coming out
letter by letter, word by word, sentence
by sentence, until your startled vision
reads it. “With what measure ye
mete, it shall be measured to you again.
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