The Red Cloud chief., 1889-07-05

the Christian, tAir-rrin.ied. commDn-,ens
icaf spirit ia ard to U hers ~prsdoni-
mated in the word We should have the
mii!eun um in about six weeks for would
not that b.. lamb and lion, COW andl-opard
lying down tcgs:hsr? Nothing but tbs
grace OF God can ever put US into such .
habit Of mind and heart a. that The
whole tendency 10 in the opposite dirsc-
tion.
This is the way the world talks: I put
my name o . b back II q mans note and
| had TO pay il and I will never again put
my name On the back Of any mans nots.
I gave . b-ggar Ten cents and fiv. minute
AZ Or l saw him enter ng . liquor store to
spend it viii nev.r again give . cont to
. begxar. ! helped that young man start
in business and 10. after awhile he came
and opened Q store almost next door and
stole my customerA I will never again
help . young man start in business l
trusted in what my nsighbor promised to
do and he broke his word and The PsaImist
was right before he corrected himself, for
oNA . bAoAS ~ 0lCo SoS0
picious and saturnins and selfish.
and At every additional wrong done
them they put another layer On the
wall Of their exctusivenesA a
another holt to the door hat
shuts them out from sympathy with the
world. They get cheated out OF . thou.
san dollars o. misin Interpreted, or disap-
pointed, or betrayed and higher goes tins
->fl >.l >.~k>. k~f -
alis Nc that while they loci tn.rs ont
they wake up to ind themselves iIapris-
oned in . dastardly habit No friends 20
others, others are no friends to them
Now. supposing that you have, BY . di:
vine regeneration, got right toward God
and humanity, and you start cut to prac-
tics my text "A man that hath friends
must show himself friendly" Fal6i this
BY oil forms OF appropriate saiutation.
that the easiest thing on earth 10 TO give it
. nod Of r~ecognit:On: To swing the head
from side to side, - whsni il 10 wagged in
derision. 10 unnatural and unpleasant:
to throw it back inv t.s vertigo; but to
drop the hin in greeting is accompanied
with 80 little sxersioa that al day long
end every day you might practice it without
the least s-mblancs OF fafigua So, also.
shaking; the knuckles not made 50 that
the fingers can turn in. IS in claspinE
hands divided from and set aloof from the
fingers, so that while tn. fingers clasp
your neigabor's hand on one side. the
thumb takes it on the other, and pressed
together. Al the faculties Of the hand
-,-A >-~l>.s. - .-- ~
ssrmons in every healthy hand urge rs to
hsndshsking.
Besides this every day when you start
ont, load yourself up with / nd thoughts,
kind words. kind expressions and kind
greetings. WIN . man or woman does
we'll, tell him so, tell her so. II you meet
some one who i. improved in health, and
it is demonstrated in 2irth and color. say:
How we'll you look" But if on the other
hand, under the wear and tear Of life he
appears . and exhausted. do not intro
duce sanitary subjects or say any thing
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 dec inc by you silence. by which 10
concludes III I were really 20 badly o3.
he would have said something atous it,"
We are all, especially those Of nervous
temperament susceptible to kind words
and discouraging words. Form . on.
spiracy against uA and let ten men meet
Is at certain points On our way over to
bu -iness, and let each say: How sick
you io,k:" though we should start out
veil, after meeting the first and bearing
his depressing salute, We would be-
gin to examine cur symptoms.
After meeting the second gloomy
acccsting we would conclude we did
not feel quite As well As usual. After
meeting he third our sensations would be
dreadful and after meeting the fourth,
nile We suspected . conspiracy. We
would 60 home and 90 to bed and the
other SIX pessimisrs would be q useles,
surplus of encouragement. Ny dear sir,
my dear madam. what do you mean BY
going about this world with dishearten-
ment: l. not the supply OF g;oom and
trouble and misfortune enough TO meet the
demand without running . factory OF
pins and spikes! Why should you plant
black and blue in the world when God so
seldom plants them: Plenty of scarlet
coior& plenty of yellow, plenty Of green. !
plenty OF pink, but very seldom . plant.
black or blue. Inever saw q black flower.
and there's only here and there q blue.bell
or q violet; but the blue is for the most
part reserved for the SKY. and We ave to
ND to see that and Whan We look up no
color can do US harm. Why not plant
along the path OF others the brightnesses
instead Of the glooms. Do not prophssy
misfortune. II you must Be a prophet 1T
al! be an Ezekiel. and not . jeremiah.
In ancient times prophets Who I retoid
evil were doing right. for they were die
vinely directed; but tn. prophets OF evil
in our time are generally false prophets |
Some of our weatherwiss people are
prophesying We shall have q summer Of
unparalleled scorch. 1t will not be tb1t
at all think We are going to haze s
summer Of great harvest and universal
health: n any rat. l know as uch houe
it ~ they do Last fall all the veAshet
prophets agreed in saying We should have
winter o; extraordinary severity. big.
gard on the heels OF blizzard - va tAX
winter l ever remember to Fave
passed Indeed the autumn and t.e
spring almost showed winter Ous 81 ths |
procession. Real troubles have no heraids
running ishAaa o. theis -s0mher -eharioes |
and no ssJ authoc,tS M odf; tRe,