News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1889-07-11

on earth is to give a nod of recognition? To
swing the head from side to side, as when it
| is wagged in derision, is unnatural and I'M
pleasant; to throw it back, invites vertigo;
| but to drop the chin in greeting is accom-
panied with so little exertion that ell day
| long and every day you might practice it with
out the least Semblance of fatigue. So also
| the structure of the hand indicates hand-shak-
| ing; the knuckles not made so that the fingers
can turn out, but so made that the fingers
can turn in, as in ciasping hands; and the
thumb divided from and set aloof from the
fingers, so that while the fingers take your
| neighbours hand on one side. the thumb takes
1t on the other, and pressed together, all the
faculties of the hand give emphasis to the
salutation. Five sermons in every healthy
hand urge us to Misunderstanding.
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 woman 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 lookp'
But II, on the other hand under the wear and
tear OF life he appears 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 con-
-iutltS. IL L were really 50 Ddlly OILs ne
would have said something about it" We are
all, especially those of q nervous tempera-
ment, susceptible to kind words and discour-
aging words. Form 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" though
we should start out well, after meeting
the first and hearing his depressing salute,
we would begin to examine your symptoms.
After meeting the second gloomy accosting,
Il ~
well as usual After meeting the third, our
sensations would be dreadful, and after meet
ing the fourth, unless we expected a conspir-
acy, we would go home and go to bed and
the other six peSsimists would be useless sur
plus of encouragement. My dear sir, my dear
madam, what do you mean by going about
this world with disbursements? Is not the
supply of gloom and trouble and misfortune
enough to meet the demand without your
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 colors, plenty of yellow, plenty of
green, plenty of pink, but very seldom
plant black or blue. l never saw a black
flower, and there's only here and there 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 glooms Do not prophesy misfortune. If
d
and not Jeremiah. In ancient times proph-
cts who foretold evil were doing right for
they were divinely directed; but the proph-
cts of evil in our time are generally
false prophets. Some of our weather wise
people are propheSying we shall have a sum-
mer of unparalleled scorch. 1t will not be
that at all. think we are going to have a
summer of great harvest and universal
health; at any rate know as much about it
as they do. Last fall all the weather proph-
cts agreed in saying we should have a win
ter OF extraordinary severity, blizzard 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 som
Der 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
A quarter of a century ago was right: kind
Words Can Never Die" Such kind words
ave their nests in kind hearts, and when
hey are Matched out and take wing they cir
lie round in flights that never cease, and
iportsman's gun cannot shoot them, and
,torms cannot ruffie their wings, and when |
hey cease flight III these lower skies of earth |
they sweep around amid the higher attitudes |
IF heaven.
Oh, what glorious state of things to have |
The friendship of Godl Why, we could afford |
have all the world against us and all other /
worlds against us If we had God for u.s. He |
Ould in a minute blot out this universe, and |
i another minute make better universe. 1 |
ave no idea that God tried hard when He /
nade all things. The most brilliant thing
,nown to us Is light, and for the creation of 4
nat He only used a word of command. As
Tut of flint the frontiersman strikes spark,
30 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
inger. The Bible frequently speaks of .
Gods hand, and Gods arm, and Gods |
shoulder and Goals foot; then sun
shoulder and foot to utmost tension, what
,Ould He not Ina1e2 That God, of such
demonstrated and undemonstrated strength
-ou may have for your present and everlast-
lg friend. But stately and reticent friend |
ard TO get at but as approachable as a
0untry mansion on a summer day when all /
christ sad: Il am the door" And He is a
wide door, a high door, a palace door, an /
always open door. My four-year-old child /
got hurt, and did not cry until hours after |
when her mother came home, and then she /
burst into weeping, and some of the dolneS- |
tics not understanding human nature, said |
to her; why did you not cry beforeY' She |
There was no one to cry to-" |
Now 1 have to tel you that while human |
sympathy may be absent, divine sympathy |
love and get His love; your service /
and secure His help; your repentance /
and have His par Ion. God friend? Why, |
that means all your wounds indicated, all 1
your sorrows soothed, and if some sudden ca
-astrophe should hurl you out of earth il would |
1nly hurl you into heaven. If God is your
'riend you cannot get out of the world too |
quickly or suddenly, 50 far as your own hap |
Diness is concerned. There were two Chris /
5ians last Tuesday who entered heaven; the /
'ne was standing at a window in perfec6 |
health watching the shower, and the light |
hing instantly slew him; but the lightning
I'D not fash down the sky as swiftly as his |
spirit flashed upward. The Christian man |
who died on the So he day next door had |
been for n year or two failing in health and |
,Or the last three months had suffered from a |
disease that made the nights sleepless and the
lays an anguish. Do you not really think |
that the case of the one who went instantly |
was more desirable than the one who entered |
the shining gate through long
ane of insomnia and congestion? In |
the one case it was like your standing
YEARLY at door, knocking and waiting, and
if it will ever open, and knocking
and waiting again; while in the other case,
t was a swinging open of the door at the
first touch of your knuckle. Give your
to God, and have Gods friendship
Tor you, and even the worst accident will be
4 victory.
How refreshing is human friendship, and |
true friends, what priceless treasured When |
sickness comes, and trouble comes and death
comes, we send for our friends first of all, |
and their appearance in our doorway in any
crisis is reinforcement, and when they have /
entered we say: ''Now it is all rightn Oh |
what would we do without friends, personal |
friends business friends, family friends? But !
we want something mightier than human
in the great exigencies. When |
Jonathan Edwards in his final hour had given |
the last good-by to all his earthly friends, |
he turned on his pillow and closed his eyes |
saying: Nov where is Jesus
IF Nazareth my true and never failing |
friend?" Yes, | admire human friendship as
seen in the case Of David and Jonathan, of |
Paul and OnesiphCrus, of Herder and Goethe, |
of Goldsmith an Reynolds, of Beaumont and |
Fletcher, OF Cowley and Harvey, of Eras- |
mus and Thomas More, of Leasing and Men
of Lady Churchill and Princess
Anne, of Orestes and Pylades, each re-
questing that himself might take the point of
the dagger so the other might be spared; of
Epaminondas aud Pelopidas, who locked
their shields in battle determined to die to-
gether; but the grandest, the nigh test, the
tenderest friendship in all the universe
is the friendship between Jesus Christ
and a believing soul Yet after all
have said l feel ] have only done
what James Marshall the miner did
in 1913, in California, before its gold mines
were known. He reached in and put
upon the table of his employer, Captain SUIT
ton, a thimbleful of gold dust. "Where did you
get that?' said his employer. The reply was:
II croft IL this morning from a mill race