A Just and Discriminating Judge
By Editor
Apropos of our first-page article is an incident in the life of Franklin. When nineteen years of age, he visited London, and, desiring work, he called at a printing-office. The foreman, having little faith in the knowledge of colonial boys, said, "Ah, a lad from America seeking employment as a printer. Well, do you really understand the art of printing? Can you set type?" Franklin stepped to one of the cases, and, in a short time, set up these words from the first chapter of John: "Nathaniel said unto him, Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth? Philip saith unto him, Come and see." The delicate reproof in the matter put into type had its effect, and the work was done so quickly and correctly that Franklin was at once given a position. So with the Greater than Franklin, the works that He did bore witness of Him; it mattered not where He lived. And so with all: it matters little where we live if duty calls there, but how we live. A Just and Discriminating Judge.
A Tacoma, Wash., city paper tells us that in Department No. 2 of the Superior Court Judge Chapman excused a juror from duty on the seventh day, because the juror had conscientious convictions against serving on the Sabbath. In stating the case before the court Mr. Shindler said, "Before I was a Christian I was honest in the service of my employer; now, judge, would you have me be otherwise in my service to God?" Mr. Shindler did a right and wise thing in thus candidly presenting his case; and the judge did a right and just thing in continuing the case over the Sabbath day.