Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-07-11

often quoted: Where fbsrs = - =
smoke there must be some fire J.,L =. IN
the smoke for years around Jenner the MR.
queer OF vaccination; and the smoke around
columbus the discoverer. and the smoke
r rrJunu Msrtln Luther, and Savonarola and
Calico. and Paul and John and Chris; and ell
me where was the fret That Is one of Tho
Satanic arts to make smoke without H.,
Islander, ike the world NAV be made ouf ~
nothing. If the Christian. fair minded COM
mon sensical spirit IN regard to Others nre.
dominated in the world, we should have fbe
miIennium In about six weeks, for would not
that be lamb and lion. COW and Icons ri I,;,,,,
down togetberf Nothing but the oraes 20 ~
Tod can ever put US into such a hahit ~
mind and heart as that The whole tendency
Is IN the opposite direction This Is tie NC !,
the world talks; II put NV name ON tba MI,
OF mans note, and had to paw il ara I will
never again put my name on the back 81 any
mans note gave beggar ten cents. and
hve minutes after saw him entering ! l,,uor
store to spend it, l will never agsin i've a
cent to beggar. helped that young man
start In business and 10, after a while he
came and opened a store almost next door 70
me, and stole my customers. will never
again help young man start ia business. /
trusted In what my neighbor promised TO do
and he broke his word and the Psalmist was
rlgnt oeiore ne corrected himself, for all
and saturnine and selfish, and at every addi-
nonal wrong done them they put another
layer on the wall of their exclusiyeness. and
another bolt TO the door that shuts them caif
from sympathy with the world. They get
chested out of a thousand dollars, or misin-
terpreted, or disappointed, or BETRAYED. and
higher goes the wall, and faster goes another
bolt, not realizing that while they lock Others
ont, they lock themselves in; and some day
they wake up TO find themselves imprisoned
in dastardly habit. No friends to Others
Others are no friends 10 them. There's an,
island half way between England Scotland
and ireland, called the Isle of Man. and the
seas dash against all sides of it, and am told
that there Is no more lovely place than tAat
isie OF Mani but when man becomes insular
In his disposition, and cuts himself off from
the main land OF the worlds sympathies. hs
Is despicable and all around him s an Allan
nc Ocean OF seldshness. Behold that Isle OF
Mani
Now, surprising that you have, by divine
regeneration, got right toward God and hu-
manity. and you start out to practice my
Text; "A man that hath friends must show
himself friendly Fulfill this by all forms of
appropriate salutation- Have you noticed
that the head Is SO poised that the easiest thing
on earth Is 10 give nod of recognitions To
swing the head from side to side, as when it
Is sagged in derision, is unnatural and un-
pleasant; to throw it back, invites vertigo;
but 10 drop the chin in greeting is accom-
panied with so little exertion that all day
long and every day you might practice il with
out the least semblance of fatigue. So also
the structure Of the hand indicates hand-shak-
ing; the knuckles not made so that ohe fingers
can turn out, but so made that the fingers
can turn in, as in clasping hands; and the
thumb divided from and set aloof from the
fingers, SO that while the fingers take your
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IL on the other, and pressed together all the
faculties Of the hand give emphasis to the
salutatioD. Five sermons in every healthy
hand urge us to Misunderstanding
Besides this, every day when You start cut
load yourself up with kind thoughts Kind
words, kind expressions and kind greetings.
When a man or woman does we'll tell him so,
tell her so. II you meet some one who is inn
proved in health, and it is demonstrated in
girth and color say: How well You lookr'
But If, on the other hand, under the wear and
tear of Life he appears pale and exhausted,
do not introduce sanitary subjects or say
anything at all about physical conditions.
In the case Of improved health, you have by
your words given another impulse toward
the robust and the jocund; while in the
case of the failing health you have arrested
the decline by your silence, by which he con-
cludes: IF l were really so badly off, he
would have said something about it. " We are
ALL especially those Of a nervous tempera-
ment susceptible TO kind words and discour-
aging words. Form conspiracy against US,
and let ten men meet us at certain points on
nur way over TO business, and let each one
,ay: 'How sick you loo's;" though
we should start out well, after meeting
the first and hearing his der cessing salute,
we would begin to examine your symptoms.
After meeting the second gloomy accosting,
we would conclude we did not feel quite as
well as usual After meeting the third our
sensations would be dreadful, and after meet
ing the fourth, unless we expected a conspir-
acy, we would go home and go to bed. and
the other six pessimists would be a useless sur
plus of discouragement My dear ir,my dear
madam, what do you mean by going about
this world with dishearteumentsy Is not the
supply of gloom and trouble and misfortune
enough to meet the demand without your
running factory of pins and spikest Why
should you plant black and blue in the world
when God 50 seldom plants them Plenty
Of scarlet colors plenty Of yellow, plenty OF
green, plenty of pink, but very seldom
plant black or blue. / never saw black
hower and there's only here and there blue
bell or a violet; but the blue is TOR the most
part reserved for the sky, and 7e have to
look up to see that, and when we look up no
color can do us harm. Why plant along
the paths of others the brightnesses instead of
tuc NiSfNAAAn ~ bot PAOfAe1y
you must be prophet at all be an Ezekiel
and not Jeremiah. In anciene times proph-
cts who foretold evil were doing right for
they were divinely directed; but the proph-
cts of evil in our time are generally
false prophets Some of our FEATHER wise
people are prophesying We shall have a sum
mer of unparalleled scorch. 1t viii not be
that at all think we are going to have
summer of great harvest and universal
health; at any rate know as much about 1t
Is they do Last fall all the weather proph-
sts agreed IN saying We should have win
ter Of extraordinary severity. blizzard on the
heels of blizzard It was the mildest winter
erer remember to have passed. Indeed;
the autumn and the spring almost showed
winter out of the procession Real troubles
have no heralds running ahead of Their som
ber ehariots. and no one has any authority
n our time to announce their coming: Load
yourself up with lelpful words and deeds
The hy1nn once sung III our churches = unnt
10 be sung, for it says:
We should suspect some danger near
Where we possess delight
In other words manage to keep miserable
N the time. The old song sung 81 the p1enos