. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. ocrites, which was ever after known and remem-bered as the ** measuring up sermon. It was full oftrenchant strokes at those who pretended to qualities andvirtues which they should possess, but did not. In speaking of the judge placed upon the bench to doequal and even justice between the opposing sides, hepictured the infamies that, in the name of god-like impar-tiality, were too often perpetrated. He showed him seatedin all his dignity, with the pleading counsellors and anxiousclients before him, and in
. The authorized pictorial lives of Stephen Grover Cleveland and Thomas Andrews Hendricks. ocrites, which was ever after known and remem-bered as the ** measuring up sermon. It was full oftrenchant strokes at those who pretended to qualities andvirtues which they should possess, but did not. In speaking of the judge placed upon the bench to doequal and even justice between the opposing sides, hepictured the infamies that, in the name of god-like impar-tiality, were too often perpetrated. He showed him seatedin all his dignity, with the pleading counsellors and anxiousclients before him, and in one hand the Scales wherein law weigheth equity down,while in the other lay the unhallowed bribe that had caused GROVER CLEVELAND. 71 him to pre-judge the case, pervert his high oflSce and soilthe very majesty of the law itself. •*This man, he said, this unjust judge, claims to befull weight, one hundred cents to the dollar and sixtypounds to the bushel of truth and honesty, but will hemeasure up, my friends, will he measure up? He then spoke of the merchant sanding his sugar in the. OLD JEMMY TAYLOR. silent watches of the night and tearing off thirty-four inchesto the yard of cottons, calicoes and silks. **This man, said the fearless old cynic, * pays his taxesbecause he has to, and his church contributions because itis popular. He wont pick your pocket, forge a check norstop a man upon the highway, for these operations requiremore of nerve and animal courage than he possesses, but 72 GROVER CLEVELAND. for all of that, do you think his honesty is heaped up andoverflowing as it should be; in other words, do you think itwill measure up? <*And there, too, is the Christian, he continued, **whobehind his prayer-book figures up his notes and mortgages,and exacts usurious interest from his brother. The prayerof such a man is not that his Heavenly Father shall givehim this day his daily bread, but that He shall give him
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