Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-25
EYE-SALYE.

ture, but OF the wisdom and love which sets
in motion, land controls it's power, they have
no perception.
To them the morning is but the begin
ming of the day. The red and crimson and
gold banners, which the sun waves before
him when he comes forth s'like strong
man to run race" are without meaning
to their unseeing eyes. The night, ''the
profile of the day. with it's countless stars
bears no message to them. In the early
spring when nature, like Lazarus, comes
forth from the tomb, and the barren earth
buds and blossoms anew, the sign manual
of God, ''the emblems of our own great
resurrection" how few see the sign or the
promise.
The eye-salVe recommended by the Great
Physician enables those who use it to see
themselves, not alone as others see them,
bat as they really are. 1t
opens the eyes to the light
of truth, and in that clear white light all
things assume their proper proportions, and
base man no longer appears noble, nor a
mean one exalted
the masks which hide mems real selves,
should fall off, and each stand confessed
before himself and the world, with all the
lmpurity and rottenness on the surface.
This eye-salve will not enable US to pen
citrate each others motives, but it will
make man very clear-sighted as regards
himself; it will introduce him to himself,
and his acquaintance will be an ever in
creasing surprise.
A great many actions appear clever and
smart to person before the amounting of
his eyes, that subsequently appear silly
and wrong. To have the last word in a
dispute, "to give another as good as he
sent" to speak ones mind on all occasions,
are esteemed by most persons evidences
of exceptional talent. 81 tell you I gave
him blast. 1 used him up completely. I
was proud of myself. did not know 1
was so smart" remarked man who had
just closed wordy quarrel.
Many men and women too have Rugged
themselves at the thought of how they
have worsted an antagonist in a strife of
vituperation.
There are others who imagine they were
created solely to strip off others DISCUSSES.
URmindful that their houses are of glass.
they throw stones at their neighbors. A
beautiful face they mistrust. "They know
that Madame Nature never superlntended
that makeup" With the severity of truth.
they would expose, before delighted audi
ence, the tawdriness, sham and false gilt
ter of life's stage. They are the self con-
stituted critics of society, of its pleasures
and habits. They know the secret springs
of human actions.
Have we not all met such persons, who
seemed to feel moral obligation to pune
ture the bubble of happiness whenever
they saw it?
There are other very good persons, who
consider themselves sort of religious
magnet, and that they can detect the pres
encs OF goodness by their own
powers of attraction. They know
Il Christian when they see him,
and having settled the matter of
their own salvation, they have leisure to
attend to their neighbors.
The great cause of this blindness is sell
fshness and ignorance. When a man is SO
selfish that he imagines that everything
was created with reference to himself, and
that he was placed on the earth to get all
he could, and to keep all he could get, the
only hope for him lies in the penetrating
eye-salve of truth. When a man is SO ig-
mr. nf ha nf i,1f oe
himself, that he considers his creation the
supreme work of God, and as rejecting
great credit upon the Creator, he will
nevsr see straight until he annoints his
eyes with this salve.
What effect would follow this annoint-
ing! To many of US it would be a more
wonderful revelation, than came to the
blind man when Jesus Amounted his eyes
with clay. Burns prayed for some power
to give US the gift of seeing ourselves as
others see US, but the salve of truth will
show us how we appear to Q God of 1nfn-
selves. Then our sharp, cutting
words, our crushing arguments
of blackguardism. with which
we silenced our adversary, will prove not
satisfactory victory, but shameful de-
feat.
1t is our ignorance that gives US courage
to press our opinions upon others. A bet
ter knowledge of the vast fields of learning
and our own limited capacities, would
bring humility. A man should be able to
"give reason for the hope that is in him.
he should have the courage of his convic-
tions, but it is the presumption of igno-
rance and over-weening self-importauce to
thrust them upon others. A proper use of
the salve would remedy such blindness.
If the self-constituted critics of society
could see, they would discover that the
painted shams and illusions they denounce
are the creation of their own envious minds.
That the motives they ascribe to others
spring from their own spiteful, soured
hearts. The powerful tonic of truth would
clear their systems of the malaria and
jaundice of seIfshness, and then they could
rejoice in others prosperity, and in the
success that might attend any honorable
effort ''to. get on in the world"
A person born to social and educational
advantages, if he could see, would neces-