The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-11

II have not heard his side of the story at all,
and for that reason take Off the remaining
twenty-five per cent? Excuse me, sir, / don't
believe n word Of IL.
But here comes in a defective maxim, so
often quoted; "Where there is so much
smoke there must be some fire. Look at all
the smoke for years around Jenner, the intro
ducer OF vaccinations; and the smoke around
Columbus, the discoverer; and the smoke
around Martin Luther. and Savonarola and
Galileo, and Paul. and John and Christ. and tell
me where was the fire! That Is one OF the
Satanic arts 70 make smoke without fire.
Slander, like tho world, may be made out OF
nothing. IL the Christian, fair minded, COM
mon sensicol spirit In regard TO others pre-
dominated In the world, we should have the
millennium In about six weeks, for would not
that be lamb and lion, COW and leopard living
down together' Nothing but the grace OF
God can ever put us into such habit o:
mind and heart as that. The whole tendency
Is in the opposite direction. This is the way
the world talks: "1put my name on the back
of a mans note, and / had to pay II, and will
never again put my name on the back Of any
mans note. / gave n beggar ten cents, and
five minutes after saw him entering liquor
store TO spend It, i will never again give
cent TO a beggar. helped that young man
start In business, and 10, after a while, he
came and opened store almost next door TO
me, and stole my customers will never
again help young man start In business. /
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 suspicious
and saturnine and selfish, and at every addi.
tonal wrong done them they put another
layer on the wall OF their exclusiveness, and
another bolt TO the door that shuts them out
from sympathy with the world. They get
cheated out Of a thousand dollars, or misn-
terpreted, or disappointed, or betrayed and
higher goes the wall and fnster goes another
bolt, not realizing that while they lock others
out, they lock themselves in; and some day
they wake up to find themselves imprisoned
in dastardly habit. No friends 10 others,
others are no friends to them. There's an
island half way between England, Scotland
and Ireland, called the Isle Of Man, ana the
seas dash against all sides Of 10, and am told
that there is no more lovely place than that
lso of Man; but when n man becomes insular
in his disposition, and cuts himself off from
the main land Of the worlds sympathies. ha
is despicable, and all around him IA an Allan
tic Ocean OF seliishneSs. Behold that Isle of
Mani
Now, supposine that you have, by a divine
regeneration got right toward God and hui
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 Il 10 give n nod Of recognitioni To
swing the head from side to side, as when il
Is waggod in derision is unnatural and un.
pleasant; TO throw IL back, invites vertigo;
but to drop tho 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 the fingers
can turn out, but so made that the fingers
can turn in, rs In clasping hands; and the
thumb divided from and set aloof from tho
fingers, so that while the fingers take your
neighbours hand on one side. the thumb takes
It on tho other, and pressed together, all the
faculties Of the hand give emphasis 10 the
salutation. Five sermons in every healthy
hand urge Us 20 hand-shaking.
Besides this, every day when you start out.
load yourself up with kind thoughts, kind
words, kind expressions and kind greetings.
When n man or woman does well, tell him so,
tell her so. II you meet some one who is inn
proved in health, and IL is demonstrated in
girth and color say: "How we'll YOU lookw
But IL, 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: III / 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 n conspiracy against us,
and let ten men meet us at certain points on
our way over TO business, and let each ono
say: How sick you look" though
we should start out well, after meeting
the first and hearing his depressing salute,
we would begin TO examine your symptoms.
After meeting the second gloomy accosting,
we would conclude we did not feel quite as
we'll as usual. After meeting the third our
sensations would be dreadful, and after meet
ing the fourth, unless we expected conspir-
acy, we would go home and 10 10 bed and
the other six pessimists would be a useless sur
plus or dlscouragement My dear sir, my dear
madam, what do you mean by going about
this world with disheactenmentsp Is not tho
supply OF gloom and trouble and misfortune
enough 20 meet tho demand without your
running factory of pins and spikesS Why
should you plant black and blue in the world
when God 50 seldom plants thems Plenty
OF scarlet coiors' plenty OF yellow, plenty Of
green, plenty of pink, but very seldom u
plant black or blue. | never saw black
Hover, and there's only here and there a blue
bell or n violet; but the blue is for the most
part reserved for the sky, and we have TO
look up 10 see that, and when we look up no
color can do us harm. Why not plant along
the paths Of Others the brightnesses instead OF
the glooms? Do not prophesy misfortune IL
You must be prophet at all be an Ezekiel
and not n jeremiah In ancient times proph-
cts who foretold evil We're doing right for
they were divinely directed; but the proph-
cts of evil in our time are generally
false prophets. Some Of our weather wise
people are prophesying we shall have sum-
mer OF unparalleled scorch. IL will not be-
that at all. i think we are going 10 have a
summer of great harvest and universal
health; at any rate know us much about it
as they do. Last fall all the weather proph-
cts agreed in saying we should have win
ter of extraordinary severity, blizzard on the
heels of blizzard. II was the mildest winter
! ever remember to have passed. Indeed, i
the autumn and the spring almost showed
winter out of the procession Real troubles
have no heralds running ahead of their som-i
Der 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 churches is unflt
to be sung, for it says:
We should suspect some danger near
Where NE possess delight
In other words manage TO keep miserable