Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-07-11

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trusted IN what my neighbor promised to
do and he broke his word and the Psalmist
was right before he corrected himself, for
''all men are liars" So men become sus-
picious and saturnine and selfish,
and at every additional wrong done
them they put another layer on the
| wall of their exclusivenesS and
| another bolt to the door that
shuts them cut from sympathy with the
world. They get cheated out of thou
sand dollars or misinterpreted, or disap-
pointed, or betrayed, and higher goes the
wall and faster goes another bolt, not re-
aliz;ng that while they lock others out
| they lock themselves in; and some day
they wake up to find themselves impris-
oned in dastardly habit. No friends to
| others, others are no friends to them.
Now. supposing that you have, by di-
vine regeneration, got right toward God
and humanity, and you start out to prac-
tice my text. "A man that hath friends
must show himself friendly" Fulfil this
| by all forms of appropriate salutation.
Have you noticed that the head is so poised
that the easiest thing on earth is to give it
a nod of recognition? To swing the head
from side to side, as when it is wagged in
to throw it back. inv tss vertigo; but to
drop the chin in greeting is accompanied
with so little exertion that all day long
and every day you might practice it without
the least semblance of fatigue. So, also,
the structure of the hand indicates hand
shaking; the knuckles not made so that
the fingers can turn in. as in clasping
hands divided from and set aloof from the
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your neighbours hand on one side, the
thumb takes it on the other, and, pressed
together, al the faculties of the hand
give emphasis to tie salutation. Five
sermons in every healthy hand urge US to
haudshaking.
Besides this, every day when you start
out, load yourself up with kind thoughts,
kind words, kind expressions and kind
greetings. Whsn a man or woman does
we'll. tell him 80, tell her so. If you meet
some one who is improved in health, and
it is demonstrated in girth and color. say:
How we'll you look" But if on the other
hand, under the wear and tear of life he
appears Ia g and exhausted. do not intro
duce sanitary subjects or say any thing
at all about physical conditions In the
case of improved health you have by your
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robust and the jocund; while in the case
of the failing health you have arrested
the decline by your silence, by which he
concludes III l were really 50 badly off.
he would have said something about it,"
We are all, especially those of a nervous
temperament, susceptible to kind words
and discouraging words. Form a con-
spiracy against US, and let ten men meet
ne Of IN Mt 30
business, and let each one say: "How sick
you lock" though we should start out
we'll, after meeting the first and hearing
his depressing salute, we would be-
gin to examine our 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 meeting the fourth,
unless we suspected a conspiracy, we
would go home and go to bed, and the
other SIX pessimists would be a useless
surplus of encouragement. My dear sir,
my dear madam. what do you mean by
going about this world with dishearten-
ment? Is not the supply of gloom and
trouble and misfortune enough TO meet the
demand without running a factory of
pins and spikes. Why should you plant
black and blue in the world when God so
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 a black flower
and there's only here and there blue bell
or a violet; but the blue is for the most
part reserved for the sky, and we have to
look up to see that and when we look up no
color can do US harm. Why not plant
along the path of others the brightnesses
instead of the glooms? Do not prophesy
misfortune. If you must be a prophet at
all be an Ezekiel and not a Jeremiah.
In ancient times prophets who foretold
evil were doing right, for they were di-
vinely directed; but the prophets of evil
in our time are generally false prophets.
Some of our weatherwise people are
prophesying we shall have a summer of
unparalleled scorch. 1t will not be that
at all l think we are going to have
summer of great harvest and universal
health; at any rate know as much about
it as they do. Last fall all the weather
prophets agreed in saying we should have
a winter of extraordinary severity, bliz-
card on the heels of blizzard. 1t was the
mildeSt winter l ever 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 somber chariots
and no one has any authority in our time
to announce their coming. Load yourself
up with helpful words and deeds. The
hymn once sung in our church es is unfit
to be sung. for it says:
We should suspect some danger
Where we possess delight.
In other words, manage to keep miser-
cradle all the time. The old song sung at
the pianos quarter of century ago was
right: 'Knd words never die" Such
kind words have their nests in kind hearts
and when they are Matched out and take
wing they circle round in fights that
never cease, and sportsman's gun can not
ruffie their wings, and when they cease
flight in these lower skies of earth they
sweep around amid the higher attitudes
of Heaven. At Baltimore few days ago
talked into photograph. The cylinder
containing the words was sent on to
Washington, and the next day that
cylinder, from another Photographic in
strument, when turned, gave back to me
the very words l had uttered the day be-
fore, and with the same intonations.
Scold into the photograph ana it will
scold back Pour mild words into a
photograph, and it will return the
gentleness Society and the world,
and the churches, are phono-
graphs. Give them acerbity and
rough treatment. and acerbity and
rough treatment you will get back. Give
them practical friendliness and they will
give back practical fr;endliness. A father
asked his little daughter: MARY. why is !
it that every body loves you:" She an
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