Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-07-01

in regard to others predominated in the world
we snould have the millennium in about six
weeEs, for would not that be lamb and lion.
COW and leopard lying down together Moth
ing out the grace Of God can ever put us into
such habit of mind and heart as that. The
whole tendency is in the opposite direction.
This is the way the world talks: put my
name on the back of a mans note, and had 10
| pay it, and will never again put my name on
| the back of any mans note. Igave be-,gar III
cents, and i've minutes after saw him enter
| ing liquor store to spend it will never
again give cent to a beggar. 1 helped that
| young man start in business, and 10. after
| 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 sat-
urnine and selfish, and at every additional
wrong done them they put another layer on
the wall of their cxclusiveness, and another
bolt to the door that shuts them out from sym.
pathy with the world. They get cheated out OF
thousand dollars, misinterpreted, or dis
s, appointed, & or betrayed and & higher goes; the
that while they lock others out they lock them
selves in; and some day they wake up to find
themselves imprisoned in
DASTARDLY HABIT.
No friends to others, others are no friends to
them. There's an island half way between
England, Scotland and Ireland, called the Isle
of Man, and the seas dash against all sides of
it, and L am told that there is no more lovely
place than that Isle of Man: but when a man
becomes insular in his disposition, and cuts
himself off from the main land Of the worlds
sympathies, he is despicable, and all around
him is an Atlantic Ocean of selfishness Behold
that Isle of Mani
Now, supposing that you have, by a divine
regeneration, got right toward God and human
lty, and YOU start out to practice my text, "A
man that hath friends must show himself
frendly.' Fulfill this by all forms of appro-
pirate salutations. Have you noticed
that the head is so poised that the easiest
thing on earth is to give nod of rec
as when it is wagged in derisIon, is unnatural
and unpleasant; to throw it back. invites
vertigo; but to drop the chin in greeting is ac-
companied with so little exertion that all day
long and every day you might practice it with
out the least semblance of fatigue. So. also,
the structure of tho hand indicates handshak-
ing; the knuckles not made so that the fingers
can turn out, but SO made that the fingers can
turn in, as in clasping hands; and the thumb
divided from and set aloof from the fingers, SO
that while the fingers take your neighbors
other. and, pressed together, all the faculties
of the hand gives emphasis to the salutation.
Five sermons in every healthy hand urge US to
handshaking.
Besides this every day when you start out
load yourself up with kind thoughts, kind
words, kind expressions and kind greetings.
When man or woman does well, tell him SO,
tell her so. IT you meet some one who is i'm
proved in health, and it is demonstrated in
glrth and color, say: How well you look?'
But if, on the other hand, under the wear and
tear of life he appear 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 concludes: ''If l were
11rve I'D H.
thing about it" We are all, especially those
of nervous temperament,
SUSCEPTIBLE TO KIND WORDS
and discouraging words Form a conspiracy
against us, and let ten men meet us at certain
points on our way over to business. and let
each one say: 'How sick you look p though we
should start out well, after meeting the first
and hearing his depressing salute, we would
begin to examine our symptoms. After meet
ing 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, un-
less we expected a conspiracy. we would go
home and 60 to bed, and the other six pessl-
mists would be useless surplus of discourage
ment.
My dear sir, my dear madam, what do you
mean by going about this world with dis
heartenments? Is not the supply of gloom
and trouble and misfortune enough to meet
the demands without your running factory of
pins and spikes? Why should you plant black
and blue in the world when God so seldom
of green, plenty of pink, but very seldom a
plant black or blue. / never saw a 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 20 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 brightness instead of the gloomsf
be a prophet at all be an Ezekiel. |
and not Jeremiah. In ancient times |
prophets who foretold evil were
doing right, for they were divinely directed: |
but the prophets of evil in our time are gen. |
orally false prophets. Some of our weather |
wise people are prophesying we shall have |
that at all. think we are going to have a sum- |
mer 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 winter of extraordi- |
nary severity, blizzard 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 process |
sion. Real troubles have no heralds running |
ahead of their somber chariots and no one has |
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.
WINNING LOVE.
The old song sung at the pianos a quarter of |
a century 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 sportsman's gun cannot shoot |
them, and storms cannot ruffle their wings, |
and when they cease flight in these lower skies |
of earth they sweep around amid the higher |
attitudes of heaven. At Baltimore a few days |
ago l talked into phonograph. The cylinder |
containing the words was sent on to Washing |
ton, and the next day that cylinder, from an |
gave back to me the very words had uttered |
the day before. and with the same intonations. |
Scold into phonograph and it will scold back. |
Pour mild words into a phonograph, and it |
will return gentleness. Society and the world |
and the church, are monographs Give them |
acerbIty and rough treatment and acerbity |
AMI rough treatment you will get back. Give |
them practical friendliness, and they will give |
back practical friendliness. A father asked |
his little daughter: Mary, why is it that |
don't know, unless it is because love every |
body"
"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 a boat |
three men was upset, and ak three |
were in the water struggling for their lives. |
A boat came to their relief, and a rope was |
thrown to one of them. and he refused to take |
it, saying: First fling it to Tom; he is just |
ready to go down. 1 can last some time |
longer" man like that, be he sailor 'or
be he in upper ranks of society or
lower ranks, will always have plenty of friends.
W hat 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 end expect Him to treat us low
ingly. was reading of a sea fight. in which
Lord Nelson captured a French officer, and |
when the French officer offered Lord Nelson
his hand, Nelson replied: First give me your
sword, and then give me your hand" Surren-
der of our resistance to God must precede
Gods proffer of pardon TO us. Repentance be-