The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1889-07-03

come along and let me show you that mans
character. Here is Q green scummed frog
pond, and there's . filthy cellar, and l guess
under that hedge there must be black
snake. Come and let us for an hour or two
regale ourselves with the nuisances. o, my
friends, better cover up the faults and extrol
the virtues, and this habit once established
Of universal friendliness will become as easy
as 1t is this morning for syringa to flood
the air with sweetness, as easy as 1t will be
further on in the season for quail to
whistle up from the grass. When we
hear something bad about somebody
whom we always supposed to be
good, take out your lead pencil and say:
"Let me seel Before / accept that baleful
story against that mans character, will
take Off from 1t twenty five per cent. for the
habit Of exaggeration which belongs to the
man who first told the story; then l will
take OF twenty-five per cent. for the addi-
tions which the spirit Of gossip in every
community has put upon the original story;
then will take of twenty five per cent
from the fact that the man may have been
put into circumstances Of overpowering
temptation. Sol have taken of seventy
five per cent But have not heard his side
Of the story at all, and for that reason
take of the remaining twenty-five per
cent" Excuse me, sir, l don't believe a
word of 1t.
But there comes in defective maxim, so
often quoted: Where there is so much
smoke there must be some fire." Look at
the smoke for years around Jenner, the intro
ducer Of vaccination and the smoke around
Columbus, the discoverer; and the smoke
around Martin Luther, and Savonarola, and
Calico and Paul, and John, and Christ and
tell me where was the fire. That is one Of
the Satanic arts TO make smoke without fire.
Slander, like the world, may be made out Of
nothing. II the Christian, fair MINDED, COM
mon sensical 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
lying down togetherl Nothing but the
grace Of God can ever Nlt us into such a
habit of mind and heart as that. The whole
tendency is in the opposite direction. This
is the way the world talks: l put my name
on the back Of mans note, and l had TO
pay it, and will never again put my name
on the back of any mans note. / gave O
| beggar ten cents, and five minutes after
saw him enter liquor store to spend 1t. l
| will never again give a cent TO beggsr. l
helped that young man start In business
and 10 after while, he came and opened a
store almost next door TO me, and
stole my customers. l VIII never again
nelp young man s.art IN business. o
trusted in what my neighbor promised To
do' and ne oroke MS WORD, ana the rsaimist
was right before he corrected hlmseli, for
AL men are liars" so men become sus-
picious and saturnine and selnsh, ana at
every addluonal wrong done them they put
another layer on the wall OF tneir exclusive
ness, and another bolt 70 the door that shuts
them out from sympathy with the world
Ihey get cneated out OF thousand doilars'
or mlsinterpreted, OF disappointed, OF Dc
trayed, and hlgher goes tnew wall, ana lasoer
goes another oolt, not reaiiling that wnne
tney lock others OUT they lock otners IN
ana some day they wake up 70 nnd them,
selves imprisoned IN dastaroiy naort' NO
friends 10 otners, others are no iriehus 70
them. There's an Island nan way oetween
england, scotland ana Ireland called too
Isle OF Man, and the seas dash against all
sides OF IT, and am told that there is nc
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when man becomes insuiar IN ms uis'
posluon, ana cuts nlnsell on from INC man
land OF the worlds sympatnies, ne is ae
spicaple, ana al around nim is an Atlsout
ocean OF seinsnness' benoiu that lsie o.
Mani
Now, supposing that you have, by adivin'
regeneration, got right toward God andihu
manity, and you start out TO practice my
text "a man that hath friends must show
himself friendly" Fulnli this by all forms
OF appropriate salutation. Have you no
ticed that the head Is 80 poised that the
easiest thing on earth is TO give nod Of
recognitioni To swing the head from side
to side, as when II is wagged In derision, Is
unnatural and unpleasant; 70 throwlt back
invites vertigo; but TO drop the chin IN
greeting is accompanied by 30 little exer
ton that all day long and every day you
might practice 1t without the least sem
blance OF fatigue. SO, also, the structure oi
the hand indicates handshahng; the
knuckles not made so that the fingers turr
out, but 80 made that the fingers can turr
in as In clasping hands; and the thumb di
vided from and set aloof from the fingers, Sc
that while the fingers take your neighbor's
hand on one side, the thumb takes II on the
other, and, pressed together, all the faculties
Of the hand gives emphasis to the saluta
tion. Five sermons in every healthy hand
urge us TO handshaking.
Besides this, every day when you star
out, load yourselfup with kind thoughts
kind words, kind expressions, and kind
greetings. When man or woman does
well, tell him so, tell her so. II you meet
some one who is improved In health, and \
is demonstrated in girth and color, say
"How well you lookup But II on the Other