The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1889-07-11

rns remaining 70 per cent" Excuse me. sir,
l qon believe O word OF it.
Du1 mere comes in a defective maxim 80
often quoted: "Where there $50 much smoto
There must be some fire." Look at ali the
smoke for years around Jenner, the intro.
queer OF vaccination; and the smoke around
olunDu the discoverer; and the smoke
|, nround Martin Luther and Savonarola and
uailieo and Pau and John and Christ and
leu me where was the fire? That ia one OF
Sne SATANIC arts to make smoke without fire.
nothing. If the Christian. fair minded. com.
mon:sensical spirit in regard to Others per
dominate in the world we should have the
millennium in about six weeks. for would not
that be lamb and lion, COW and leopard w.
ing down together? Nothing but the grace
OF dod can ever put us into such q habit OF
mn and heart as that. The whole ten
dency is in the opposite direction. This is
the back of mans note and had to pay it,
and will never again put my name on the
PACK OF any mans note. 1gave q beggar 10
cents and five minutes after ! saw him enter
ing q liquor store to spend it. l will never
again give a cent to a beggar. l helped that
young maj start in business, and 10! after
a while he camo and opened a store next
never again help u young man start in bust
ness. l trusted in what my neighbor prom
lsed to do and he broke his word, and the
psalmist was right before he corrected him
self, for"all men are liars" So men become
suspicious and saturine aud selfish. and at
every additional wrong done them they put
another layer on the wall of their exclusive
ness and another bolt to the door that shuts
them out from sympathy with the world.
They get cheated out of $1,000, or misinter-
preted, or disappointed, or betrayed, and
higher goes the wall and faster goes another
bolt, not realizing that while they lock others
out they lock themselves in, and some day
they will wake upto find themselves impris-
oned in = d~astardly habit. No friends to
Others: Others, are no friend to them. There's
an island half way between England, Scot
land, and Ireland called the Isle of Man, and
the seas dash against all sides of it. and I
am told that there is no more lovely place
than that Isle of Man; but when. a man be-
comes insular in his disposition and cut him
self off from the mainland of the worlds
sympathies he is ~despicable, and all around
him is an Atlantic ocean of selfshuess. Be-
hold that Isle of Man!
Now, supposing that you have. by a divine
regeneration, got right toward God and hu-
mainly, and you start out to practice my
text: "a mar that hath friends must show
himself friendly" Fulfill this by oil. forms of
appropriate salutation. Have you noticed
that the head is SO poised that the easiest
OHluS III edibl lS W give d uOu Vi cCOSul"
ton? TO swing the head from side to side,
as when it is waggedin derision. is un natural
and unpleasant; to throw it back
invites vertigo; but to drop the
chin in greeting is accompanied with
so little ~exertion that all day long and every
day you might practice it without the least
semblance Of fatigue. So, also, the structure
knuckles not made SO that the fingers can
turn in, clasping hands; and the thumb di-
vided from and set aloof from the fingers, SO
that while the fingers take your neighbours
hand on one side the thumb takes it to the
other and, pressed together, all the faculties
of the hand give emphasis to the salution.
Five sermons in every healthy hand urge us
to h~andshaking. ..
Besides this, every day when you start out
load yourself up with kind thoughts, kind
words, kind expressions, and kind greetings.
When a man or m does well, tell him so,
tell her SO. If you meet some one who is i'm
proved in health, and it is demonstrated in
girth and color, say: "How we'll you look!"
But, if on the other hand, under the wear
hausted, do not introduce sanitary subjects,
or say anything at oil about physical condi-
tons. 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 ar
he bsstsd c ths Sssl.ns e III your s''s wsrs by T ra'SS
about it," We are all, especially those Of
nervous temperament, susceptible to kind
words. From 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" thought we should
start out well, after meeting the first and
hearing his depressing salute we would begin
m ovornino an cunnptpunc Altar mantinU
the second gloomy accosting we would con-
clude we did not feel quite us well as usual.
After meeting the third our sensations would
be dreadful, and after meeting the fourth,
unless we expected q conspiracy, we would go
home and go to bed, and the other six pes
simists would be a useless surplus of dis
enlargement. My dear sir. my dear madame,
what do you mean by going about this world
with entertainments? Is not the supply of
gloom and trouble and misfortune enough
to meet the demand without your running q
factory of pins and spikes? Why should you
plant black and blue in the world when God
so seldom plants them? Plenty of scarlet col
ors, plenty of yellow, plenty of green, plenty
of pink, but very seldom a plant black or
blue. never saw q black flower n there's
only here and there o bluebell or a
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
If you must be q prophet at all be an
Ezekiel n not a jeremiah. In ancient
times prophets who foretold evil were doing
right, for they were diyinely directed, but
the prophets of evil in our time are generally
false prophets. Some of our weather-wise
people are prophesying we shall have a sum.
mer oil unparalleled scorch. 1t will not be that
- Ill s# II fhsr,1 vyos a rn n ofr1or RI Il ro n c,,u NJ
smer of great harvest and universal health;
at any rate I know ,as much about it al they
do. Last fall all the weather prophets agreed
in saying we should have q winter of extra
ordinary severity, sblizzards on the heels OF
blizzard. 1t vas the mildest winter l ever
remember to have passed. Indeed, the
autumn and the spring almost showed win
ter out Of the procession. Real troubles have
no heralds running ahead of their sombre
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, manageto keep miserable all
the time. The song sung at the pianos q
quarter of q century g 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 i flghts that never cease, and sports
mans gun can not shoot them, and storms
cannot rufle their wings, and when they
cease fight in these lower skies OF earth they
sweep around amid the higher attitudes of
heaven At Baltimore q few days ago l
talked into a Photograph. The cylinder con-
tanning the words was sent on to Washing
ton. and the next day that cylinder, from an
| other photographic instrument, when turn
| ed, gave back to me the very wordsI had
| uttered the day before, and with the same
| i%ntonations. Scold into a monograph and
| it will scold back. Pour mild words into q
| photograph audit will return the gentleness.
| Society and the world, and the church are
| monographs. Give them acerbity and
| rough treatment and acerbitys and rough