Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1889-05-10
Disinterestednes the Charm Of Indi-
VidualitY.
IFrom The Wduerly Progress, by j. l..
LODGE, ID. D., Editor.

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LODGE, ID. D., Editor.
Walking through picture gallery, mul
tiplied products OF artistic genius invite L
study Of outlines, proportion, form, color
all which educated taste perceives and APP
propriates for present enjoyment, perhap!
with mediate influence upon thought, anC
thence upon character. One painting Of al
the variant groups seizes and chains the
rapt attention. 1t may be that Of Charlotte
Oorday, behind the bars Of Abbaye Prison
to- morrow to issue from the gate of the
Conciergerie and submit her fair neck to "the
razor of the revolution" for the assassina.
ton OF the tyrant Marat, or 1t may be that
Of The Prisoner Of Chillon, wasting from
dungeon darkness, starvation and vermin
for religions sake. The soul of the beholder
meets the soul in the picture, and these souls
abide together. The rudest natures yield to
SO powerful an appeal to all that was once
pure and true in them, to all whose last
traces of divinity In humanity have not
been obliterated by the horrible serpent's
trail. From the copy on the retina thought
carries to the original, now transferred to
the mind, and, spite of personal inlerioritV,
intnitively convicted, regrets for loss in com
parison, and wish for emulation, have sim.
ultaneous birth.
Very singular psychological and moral
phenomenon, that hatred of virtue because
its face and voice are both condemnatory,
never can compass in the materialized, con-
crete fact what it scorns in the abstraction.
The quality per Sc is despised, the embodi
ment of the quality is secretly reverenced !,
II not openly copied precept, though pow
erful, following, in this as in every case, its
necessary law, and yielding the place OF su-
preme influence to its junction with exam
ple. The rarer the example, the more
striking its power. Selflshness is the brand
and bane OF most mortals One will be dill
igent if personal profit lure. Another will
join multitude to do evil if the majority
can promise security and advantage. Yet
another will brave adverse criticism il the
cause be conducted by himself, but would
lose the opportunity tor benevolence rather
than another should lead the van. Wood,
hay, stubbe, great quantities of brass
these are the materials among which all
such must be classed--tit only for such base
uses as they may elect to serve, hurttul to
the mundane sphere, an offense against the
universe, and fuel for the final conflagra.
ton.
God has need of richer stuff with which
to. execute His purposes and carry on the
world He separates the gold, even the sill
yer, that His own glorious Name may be
honored, and His teebiest creatures blest, by
the ministry Of chosen spirits. These men
do what they may to elevate and happily,
but never raise hand Il, strike down what
is already falling, or make more miserable
what is sufficiently unhappy. They plant
trees whose ruitage they know they Ger
tainly shall never enjoy Uneducated them
selves, they strain every nerve to educate
their children and the children of like un
fortunutes. Biest with prOvident parents
themselves, they give of their plenty or pen
ury To found asylums for wretched orphans
They stifle their own sobs to wipe the tears
from other eyes, and try to smile to light up
beclouded faces, though their own hearts
are sadly darkened. They wish no man
poorer than themselves, but rejoice in the
prosperity OF all. There's sublime com
passion in this kind of man.
AS light November SHOWS to empty nests,
AZ grass to graves, as moss TO midewed
stones,
AS July suns 10 ruins, through the rents,
AS minstering spirits to mourners, through
loss,
As heaven itself to men, through pangs of
death,
He Genes uncalled wherever grief has come.
Observation-Disclosures is courage: Havelock,
toiling over the fiery plains of India, in the
face OF heat dust and death, to quell the
Sepoy mutiny, and rescue from the throat
Of devils butchery the remnant of Euro.
peans who had escaped the horrd slaugh-
ter. IL is self sacrifice: That young ply
stefan who went as II volunteer 10 the chair
of death beside the fever patient with writ
ing materials because one must die to learn
how To save all others and who lost con.
seriousness and breath together rs the last
direction was written 1t is patriotism La
fayette and Madame Roland, the former de.
parting from France, the latter calmly dying
under the guilotine, when the Revolution
was no longer n struggle for liberty, but
pr'jstitnted means ior arson, murder, athe-
ism, tyranny and terror Such names shall
live forever in mems memory and shine like
FURNISHED gold on the proudest page Of his
tory. Dsinterestedness, love OF human
kind, divine sympathy, good will TO the
race, obliviousness Of self, made their enc
mics To be at peace with them, and wreathed
round their life and death halo of glory
Living is more than life principle is better
than profit; charity is richer than covet
business; duty more precious than diamonds.
Disinterestedness, pure and honest, makes
plain face more beautiful than any picture,
for such a face is reflection from the face
OF God