Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1888-04-26

will not only bedwarf your soul but it will
fatten your skull, bemean your eve, put
pinchedness Of look about your nostril,
give bad curl to the lip and expel from
your face the divine image in which
you were created. When you near a
man or woman abused drive in on the de-
fendant's side. Watch for excellencies in
others rather than defects, morning glo-
ries instead Of nightshade. II some one is
more beautiful than You, thank God that
you have not so many vanities to contend
with. II some one has more wealth than
you. thank God that you have not so great
stewardship 10 answer for. If some one Is
higher up in social position, thank God that
those who are down need not fear fall. II
some one gets higher office in Church or
State than you, thank God that there are
not 50 many to wish for the Fastening Of
your obseQuies.
The Duke Of Dantzig in luxurious apart
ments was visited by pialn friend, and to
keep his friend from jealousy, the Duke
said: 'You can have all have If you will
stand twenty PAGES of and let me shoot at
You hundred tlmes.' 'No. no." said his
friend. WELL" said the Duke, ''to gain
all my honors ] faced on the battle field
more than q Thousand gunshots fired not
more than ten PAGES on"
A minister of small congregation COM
planned to a minister OF large congregation
about the sparseness Of his attendance.
'Ah," SAID the one of large audience, "my
son. you will find in the day Of judgment
that you had quite enough people for whom
to be held accountable"
Substitute for jealousy an elevating emu.
lation. Seeing others good, let US try to
be better. Seeing others Industrious, let
US work more hours. Seeing others benev-
olent, let US resolve on giving larger per-
centage OF our means for charity. May
God put congratulations for others into our
right hand and cheers on our lips for those
who do brave and useful things. Life is
short at the longest; let it all be filled up
with helpfulness for others, work and sym.
pathy for each others misfortunes. and
our arms be full OF white nantes to cover
UP the mistakes and failures of others. II
an evil report about some one come to US,
let US put on it most favorable construc-
ton, as the Rhone enters Lake Leman foul
and comes out crystalline.
Do not build so mu CHI on the transitory
differences Of this world, for soon it will
make no difference to US whether we had
81. Zoo, 600 or ten cents, and the ashes into
which the tongue Of Demosthenes dis
solved are just like the ashes into which
the tongue OF the veriest stammerer went
II you are assaulted by jealousy make no
answer. Take it as a compliment, for poo
pie are never jealous Of q failure. Until
your work is done you are invulnerable.
Remember how our Lord behaved under
such exasperatlons. Did they not try
to catch Him in His wordl Did they
not call Him the victim Of intoxicants!
Did they not misinterpret Him from the
winter OF the year l to the spring Of the
year 80; that is, from His first infantile cry
to the last groan Of His assassination Yet
He answers not q word. But 50 far from
denolishing either His mission or His
good name, after near nineteen centuries
Ho 0utranks every thing under the skies
and is second to none above them and the
archangel makes salaam at his footstool.
Christ's bloody antagonists thought
that likely they had finished Him
when they wrote over the cross
His accusation in three languages,
Hebrew and Greek and Latin, not realizing
that they were by that act introducing Him
to all nations, since Hebrew is the hottest
language and Greek is the wisest of
tongues and Latin the widest spoken. You
are not the first man who had his faults
looked at through microscope and his
virtues through the wrong end Of q tele-
scope. Pharaoh had the chief butler and
baker endungeoned, and tradition says that
all the butler had done was to allow fly
In the Kings cup and all the baker had
done was to leave gravel in the Kings
bread.
The world has the habit of making a
great ado about what you do wrong and
forgetting to say any thing about what you
do right, but the same God will take care
Of you who provided for Merlin, the Chris
tian martyr, when hidden from his pursu-
ers in hay NOW in Paris, and hen came
and layed an egg close by him every morn
ing, thus keeping him from starvation.
Blessed are they that are prosecuted,
although persecution is severe cat
aplasm. Ointment may smart tho wound
before healing it. What soft pillow to
die on ii, when we leave the world, we can
feel that, though thousand people may
have wronged US, we have wronge3 no one;
or, having made envious and jealous at
tacks on others, we have repented Of the
sin, and as far as possible made reparation.
The good resolution Of Timothy Poland in
his quaint but exquisite hymn, entitled,
Most Any Day." we might well unani-
mously adopt:
Wen keep all right and good within,
Our work will then be free from sin:
Upright we'll walk through thick and thin
Straight on our way.
Deal just with all; the prize well win
Most any day.
When He who made all things just right
Shall call US hence to realms of light,
Be it morn, or noon, or cen or night,
We will obey
Wen be prepared to take our flight
Most any day.
Our lamps we'll fill brimful OF OIL
That's good and pure, that would not spot.
And keep them burning all the while
To light our way;
Our work all done we II quit the soil
Most any day.