The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1880-04-11
For the Sunday Bulletin.
THOUGHTS SUGGESTED ON READ
ING SELF REPRESSION" BY
A. NJ

IHOlGiJS SUGGESTED ON READ
ING SELF REPRESSION"
|. A. NJ.
We also have many times wondered WHY
people are so prone to catch the least whis
per OF evil against neghbor or indeed
friend and troll it as a sweet morsel under
their tongue" how eagerly we hasten to
meet some of our "dear five hundred to
tell what we have heard with just slight
addition until in twenty.fiour hours time.
the whisper with a few inuendues and a
slight shake of the head, has grown to such
proportions as would fill large volume,
not with the facts in the case; but false
hood. Let us but hear the first faint note
OF brother or sister making a false step,
the news seems to lend vitality to our very
being. How quickly We hear: II told you
so, no matter how pure the life of that one
has been in the past how many acts OF
kindness and words of cheer to the dis
tressed, we could not see or hear anything
that deserved our commentator but when
the clouds come, each vies with the
other to see how bitter they
can help to make the cup What matters
1t it the sorrowing one "sheds tears of
blood Our tongues must wag and help to
make the burden heavier. Christian char
ity you say, is balm. Yes it is; but where
is it. How different the word of God
teaches; "1f a man be overtaken in a
fault, ye which are spiritual restore such an
one in meeLiness, lest thou also be tempted"
Jesus said, "Ie that is without sim cast the
first stone" What is 1t that lends such
beauty and lustre to the Christian religion?
Weakness, kindness and above all, charity.
If we were as diligent in seeking out
the good qualities of those around us, as
we are their faults, how much happier this
world would be. No one is entirely devoid
Of redeeming qualities. Why not try to
cultivate the good we find and strive to
help them to higher plane, in place of
trying to drag them down by cold looks or
SANDER
Why is it that so many protested Chris
tan women draw their silk and velvet
habits close to their form, and with averted
head pass by on the other side when meet
ing one who perhaps in their estimation is
not quite as good as themselves? Yet
perchance, may be living truer life than
they; and some OF those women make
loud ado Of banding themselves together
for the avowed purpose Of elevating woman
kind and trying to raise the moral standard
higher say these very devoted friends of
humanity are often the first to hold up their
hands IN holy horror on hearing of some
unfortunate one, and cry "away with them,
cast her to the dogs All. my dear sister
the one you profess to follow did not do
that way. Jesus says, without charity ye
are as sounding brass, and tinkling Gym
balls Have you ever helped to send
fellow being farther along to perditon by
simply Withholding kind word IN their
hour of peril and distress, you might have
restored to society bright and shining or
namcnt, what will it avail if you do attend
every means Of grace, and fervently pray
with bowed head and bent knee Do those
prayers reach as high as the throne of
grace, or are they only lip service:
Dear reader are you gossip or
slanderer; if so, is "the skeleton in
your closest securely lockedl or
has some prying friend found a duplicate
key, and laid bare your heart: | trust not,
but never withhold the charity, you may
sorely need yourself at some future day
But oh how many whole souled men and
women there are whose kind words and
acts are as balm to the sorrowing heart,
and when the waters threaten to engulf lis
in the blackenng storm, how sweet is their
counsel and words of cheer. 1t makes
sweet some Of the bitter drops in our cups.
Such are like the waysidc violets to the
weary traveller, full of sweet perfume,
TRUST.