Show II I I ON GETTING EVEN I n 1 ii II I Well ell ell I J got even with hIm him any any- way vay I 1 have hav that Hl faction II lIe pl played a mean trick on me me but I go got get oven even with him Ho lie knows know by this time that hunt he ho cant can't get ahead of m me inC Time man spoke in a n. way that showed showed show show- ed hl his hia great satisfaction with himself I dont don't know a who he lie was for 01 I u c. caught caugh ht the thc speech I I ha have quoted as I stood by hl his side Ide on a street corner waiting waltin for n a chance to cross But since thaI that tha I have often thought of his lila words and how contemptible they made him ap ap- ap pear pem How delighted he was that lint he had hac got even with tho the man who hn had In his estimation at least done one him a awron wron wrong It never seemed tI to enter hi his mind that In bragging about getting oven even he lie revealed a a. quality In his nature nature na nit- I ture turo of which he should have hav been heen most heartily heartH Some man had played a mean menn trick on him and in getting even e It had hue been necessary for him to he be equally mean This ho he did not seem heom to com corn It takes neither Intellect nor courage to get got even oven with an m enemy The savage savage sav say age or the time imbecile is capable c. of workIng work work- Ing lug out full ull revenge alon along the line of ot otan an aim eye for an eye CC anti and a Tooth for fora a tooth It is so vcr very easy to slip down to the time level of tho the ono one who has ha injured us Ug No courage Is required neither any kindness no But after all how can we blame mc the individual for or getting even in this cowardly way when the great g arm ol of the law sets sels him a 0 bad bod example Do Does ono man kill another Revenge Is Isquick Isquick quick for fOl the law gets even b by taking a life liCe In return for a a. life liCe It I Is all so 30 ea easy so IO quickly done tIone Such a dispensation of justice reQuires re- re Quires no tedious attempt at nt reformation reformation reformation reforma reforma- tion no dealing with a mans man's soul Ills hand hantI brought death deaUl to one of his fellow fellow fellow fel fel- fel- fel low men and antI so shall the time law bring death to him Tim Tho cr very foundation of or tho the Christian Chris Curls thin tian faith alth Is in lu the belief heller that an aim unregenerate unregenerate un- un regenerate soul can not enter tho kingdom kingdom king king- dom Ioni of heaven Yet th the tho more moro unregenerate a 0 soul the tho more moro atrocious the tho crime crimo committed com corn time the Quicker does th the law In Inde decree deree doree de do- ree cree that It bo ho sent to tho great unknown un un- mown known so 50 that it may no longer contaminate con con- this world No o matter what It t. t ts future That is left to take roke care carer sf r f Itself v Verily the tIme angels in heaven must moc mock at the pra prayers ers that are offered at the foot of the scaffold The Tho well- well regulated Christian community prays for the future welfare of the soul ItIs ItIs it itIs Is deliberately sending sendIng- out of or this world black with crime Within tho time sight of church steeples and the thc sound of church chimes the thC one puny creature creature creature crea crea- ture is Ig crushed out of existence It Isso is isso isso so much easier to annihilate than to risk contamination or to work arduously to reform But some sonic time in those fair future years ear when our creeds creed shall hall In truth be graven on our hearts hear we e shall cease to lower ourselves to the time level of or the murderer b by murdering In lii turn We shall realize that to bring repentance repentance repent repent- ance to one murderers murderer's soul an and teach him to live a life lIe of usefulness and self sacrifice Is to ao co more mOle for the world than to send end ten thousand times thou thousand and murderers post-haste post into eternity man many of or them sullen of them cursing and a n. few oh few oh how few few repentant repentant No we can hardly blame thoughtless thought thought- lc less J men and women for Ing g abut Rut en c as ns long bug as the I Ilaw law ft elC spreads this doctrine broad broad- CM cast |