Show A SHORT SERMON TO wa WB US AND CO BY MAC there seems to be some mysterious influence that operates operated on human beings to make them act contrary to their knowledge of what is right of course there are but few guilty of committing gross crimes but who is there that can truthfully claim they act in ia all the minor affairs of life exactly according to their ku knowledge kroledge of what is acht I 1 doubt it there la Is one let us briefly investigate this ques question al ion in domestic life are we as mindful f ul about ministering to each others happiness as we should be Is not selfishness frequently maul manifest lestin in our eur home actions do we not occasionally siou sio nally ally indulge in ledfor IC r harsh barsh or unkind expressions do we always teach our families correct principles by precept and example in business matters dont we generally endeavor to ger gee the best of a trade do we invariably conscientiously give full value 1 in exchange labor or money we talk about sustaining home industries do our actions action correspond with our talk are not many of our artisans but scantily employed or forced into uncongenial avocations because most of us buy imported clothing house furnishings pictures and other articles of necessity comfort or luxury do we deal exclusively with our friends or do we help to sustain our enemies in religious affairs sh ah there I 1 think no one will dispute the statement that we all fall short of doing as well as we know tow are our everyday actions in accord with our sunday professions do we love the loru god with all and our neighbors as ourselves in none of our doings are we in ampre pre prone to act contrary to our knowledge Is right than in things pertaining to our physical well being it is surprisingly true that most of us po positively sit ively abuse our bodies dally daily producing clu c sickness and untimely death instead of controlling our appetites we cater to depraved fasts indulge in too many and wrong kinds of food and drink burt hening our digestive organs clogging our eur bodies and chereb thereby producing most of the ills that dlesk flesh is heir to we know or should know that tea and coffee tobacco and alcoholic drinks are injurious and yet we persist in their use we know or should know that flesh meats should be used need sparingly in cold weather only and yet many of us partake heartily of that kind of food about three times dally daily all the year round we know or should know that god has declared swine meat unclean and yet we find it or lard constitutes a portion of every meal in nearly all households I 1 need not endeavor to enumerate the things we do which we should not do they are innumerable each individual who to is not wrapped in a mantle of self righteousness will find no dif faculty in discovering evidences of 0 the the fact in him or herself although this anomalous inconsistent contrary disposition ivi evidently dently characterizes all mankind in greater or less leiss degree i there as no good reason or sense in a permitting such a perverse feeling to continually exert its harmful influence over our lives our moral and physical natures are lust just as sure to naturally suffer from the effects of the most simple wrong doings as more a severe evere punishments follow greater crimes tile the multiplicity of these little sins of omission and commission coci mission are appalling and should make us pause on this the threshold of a new Ye arand reso resolve ive to reduce their number hereafter remembering member mem bering that the little foxes spoil the vines I 1 |