The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-07-04

Plenty of scarlet colors, plenty of yell
low, plenty of green, plenty of pink,
but very seldom plant black or blue.
| never saw black flower. and there's
only here and there a blue bell or
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 paths of others the
brightnesses instead OF the glooms2
Do not prophesy misfortune. If you
must be prophet at all bean Ezekiel,
and not jeremiah. In ancient
times prophets who foretold evil were
doing right, for they were divine
ly directed; but the prophets of
evil in our time are generally
false prophets. Some of our weather
wise people are prophesying we shall
have summer of unparalleled scorch.
1t will not be that a. all. | think we
are going to have a summer of great
harvest and universal health; at any
rate know as much about as they do
Last fall all the weather prophets
agreed IN saying we should have
winter of extraordinary severity, bliz-
zard ON the heels of blizzard. 1t was
the mildest winter 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 churches is unfit to
be sung, for it says:
We should suspect some danger near
Where we possess delight.
In other words, manage to keep
miserable all the time The old song
sung at the pianos quarter of a cen
tury ago was right: kind words can
never die" Such kind words have
their nests in kind hearts, and when
they are Matched out and take wing
they circle round in flights that never
cease, and sportsmans gun cannot
! shoot them, and storms cannot ruf1ie
their wings, and when they cease
fight in these lower skies of earth
| they sweep around amid the higher
attitudes of heaven. At Baltimore few
days ago talked into a phonograph
| The cylinder containing the words
was sent on to Washington, and the
next day that cylinder, from anoth-
er Photographic instrument, when
turned, gave back to me the very
words l had uttered the day before,
and with the same intonations. Scold
into a phonograph, and it will scold
| back. Pour mild words into phono-
graph, and it will return the gentle
ness. Society and the world, and the
church, are monographs. Give them
acerbity and rough treatment, and
acerbity and rough treatment you will
get back. Give them practical friend
liness, and they will give back practi-
cal friendliness. A father asked his
little daughter Mary, why is it that
everybody loves your" She answered.
II don't know, unless 1t is because l
love everybody" "a man that hath
friends must show himself friendly"
We want something like that spirit of
sacrifice for others which was seen in
the English channel, where in the
storm boat containing three men was
| upset, and ali three were in the water
struggling for their lives. A boat
came to their relief, and a rope was
| thrown to ono of them, and he refused
to take it, saying: First fling it to
Tom; he is just ready to go down. !
can last some time longer" A man
| like that, be he sailor or landsman, be
he in upper ranks Of society or lower
ranks, will always have plenty of
friends. What is true manward is true
Godward We must be the friends of
| God if we want him to be our friend.
We cannot treat Christ badly all our
lives and expect him to treat us loving
ly. | was reading of a sea fight, in
which Lord Nelson captured French
officer, and when the French officer of
fered Lord Nelson his hand, Nelson re-
piled: First give me your sword, and
then give me your hand" Surrender
of our resistance to God must precede
Gods proffer of pardon to us. Re
pentance before forgiveness. You
must give up your rebellious sword
before you can get grasp of the
divine hand.
IT Is GOOD TO HAVE GODS FRIEND
| SHIP
0, what glorious state of things to
have the friendship of Godi Why, we
could afford to have all the world
against us and all other worlds against
us if we had God for us. He could in
minute blot out this universe, and
in another minute make better uni
verse. / have no idea that God tried
hard when he made all things. The
most brilliant thing known to us is
light, and for the creation Of that he
only used word of command AS
out of flint frontiersman strikes a
spark, so out of one word God struck
the MONDAY sun. For the making of
the present universe do not read that
God lifted so much as a finger The
Bible frequently speaks of Gods hand,
and Gods arm and Gods shoulder.
and Gods foot then suppose he
should put hand and arm and
shoulder and foot to utmost ten
sion, what could lie not makel That
God, of such demonstrated and un.
demonstrated strength, you may have
for your present and everlasting
friend. But a stately and reticeni
friend, hard to get at, but as approach
able as country mansion on sum
dows are wide open. Christ said; 81
am the door" And he is wide door
high door. a palace door, an always
got hurt and did not cry until hour.
|
and then she burst into weeping, anC
some of the domestics, not understand
ing human nature, said TO her: why
i did you not cry before2" She answer
cd: There was no one to cry to,
Now have TO tell you that while hu
l man sympathy may be absent, divine
sympathy is always accessible. Giv'
, God your love and get his love
your service and secure his help
: your repentance and have hi
e pardon. God friendi Why
r that means all your wounds medi
Gated, all your sorrows soothed
r and il some sudden catastrophe shoulC
/ hurl you out of earth 1t would onl,
hurl you into heaven. II God is you
\ friend, you cannot go out of the worlt
I too quickly or suddenly, so far as you
G own happiness is concerned. Their
were two Christians last Tuesday wh'
!. entered heaven; the one was standing
Q at a window in perfect health watch
e ing a shower, and the lightning In
|. stantly slew him; but the lightnin,
l. did not flash down the sky as swift,
d as his spirit flashed upward. Tn
i Christian man who died on III
a same day next door had been 70
\ a year or two failing in health, an,
;: for the last three months hai
o suffered from disease that made tn
q nights sleepless and the days an an
2 guish Do you not really think tina
Ir the case of the one who went Instant,
d was more desirable than the ono VIII
lie entered the shining gate through
|. long lane Of insomnia and congestion
Is In the one case it was like your stand
g ing weariiy at door, knocking an
4 waiting, and wondering il il viii eve
"a Oman and Knocking and waiting gair