Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1870-04-12

these peculiarities is the same that uses
and applies them. As the body mould
ed by the soul, the body in return mani
tests the soul to those who have eyes to
see spiritually. Yet, despite the faithful
ness of Nature to law in all her workings,
what are all other mysteries to us COM
pared to the mystery written on human
faces AS 10 one is able to sound to its
wondrous depths his own heart, it need
not surprise that little thought is given
to the riddles that we are increasingly Of
fered to solve. We are, day after day,
confronted with the presenpe Of an aggre,
gate life, and the teachings Of the spirit
ual nature are ike drttms filled with
conf~s,d meetings and undcternlinabie
shapes.
Taero are faces which we meet in the
streets into which has passed a subtler
mystery than the mind can think on
They belong to that highest type Of face
of which the standard is thought. They
are of the order Of face that provokes
speculation while it repels it. We would
give something to know whence comes
tlat suJtls thing which has 50 mar
velously incorporated Itself with the phys
ical lineament4 1t may he born of trou-
bic, trouble that has fastened upon the
face, aud teaseI it ,nt> beauty as the wind
makes beautiful the snowflake. Trouble
there surely has been, for there is 10 mys-
terry without sadness aid tie sad mys-
terry Of these faces must have been wrought
BY the 3exng Of years. There are faces
that seem wanting in depth, albeit they
are full fraught. Such faces are false
hoods, Yet they are false unktdwihgly
They cannot speak the mind; the Inca
meuts ale of the hardest marble; Natures
chisel has worked dexteio ousIy enough its
part but life has failed to penetrate the
granite front. 1t has avenged its incapac-
ity BY certain deep seams but all DELI
cacy is wanting. We miss the luminous
effect, the. shining of the soul behind.
Such faces come upon Us rudely, but not
with the disappointment Of immaturity.
The full lruition Of divine art is there !;
only its coarseness bluuts our sympathetic
perception. Yet we need not forget that
to the cunning eye God is as visible in the
rude root as in the rose. Nay, he symbo-
lies his workmanship by what is false and
fair. The scowl of the murderer, the
greeting of lovers eyes, are the product
ions Of the same art, each cxQuisitely per-
feet IN It's kind.
There are faces that haunt the memory,
where met when encountered, may not be
recalled. They stand out from the dark
ness of night, aud fade and faint along the
dreams of sleep You have seen them in
the streets, bat did not pause to cons der
them at the time. There was nothing
indeed, so it seemed, about them to startle
YOU into attention. 1t is only when they
reappear that they surrrise,.or alarm, OF
terrify.
There are faces 10 be encountered, all
dispassionate, save il the eyes which burn
with the passions that deny tEeit ifftclli'
gence to the ace. When the wearers Of
sdch fcshy masks die, their souls escape
through thar eyes. They would find them
the Only outlet. With other men the spir'
it mglt depart as the perfume departs
from the flower, The soul seems to chate
at being pent up within such narrow linz
its as the eyes. You can see it dilating
ri aud contracting upon the keen retina, as
one who approaches window to fud
egrcss and retres, and returns again and
again.
There are faces which all men meet
which all men know, which all men love
When they reappear unto the eye they
do not haunt, they soothe. They are min
istering faces, faces which seem crowned
like saint with a halo of light Of whose
subtle irradiation the heart is alone scnsi
Bile. In such faces is to be found no per-
stnifcatiou of the darker emotions Of life
The lips and the eyes are genial with .
tenderness to which wisdom has impaired
the exquisite refinement Of a faint sadness
Such faces cannot offend, neither in theil
reflections OF in their bescechings neither
in their gadness when confronting despair
nor in their peacefulncss when opposing
anger, nor in their love when facing hate
Upon them humanity has tamI cd its fair
est impress. They are not more describ
able than faces which are werd, Or Gun
r ming, or intellectual, or harghty or de
PRAYED. But they embody the idcaisu
It aIl thinkers on the Madonna, all painter
Of Charity, all dreamers Of some swcees
achievement Of God, strive to realize
Nor let them be held impossible becaus
I Of this faultlessnesS of expression; or nor
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