The Penn's Grove record., 1889-07-20

harness or saddle, and a short turn
down the road. Then we go back to the
house, and you get me in the right
light, and show me the Kensetts and
Bierstadts on the wall, and take me into
the music room, and show me the bird
cages, the canaries in the bay-window
answering the robins in the tree-tops.
Thank you! ! never enjoyed myself
more in the same length Of time. Now,
why do We not do so with
H CHARACTERS OF OTHERS,
and show the bloom and the music and
the bright fountains? No. We say,
come along, and let me show you that
mans character. Here is a green.
scummed frog-pond, and there's a
filthy cellar, and ] glIess under that
hedge there must be q black snake.
Come, and let us for an hour or two re-
gale ourselves with the n~uisances. Oh,
my friends, better cover up the fanlts,
and extol the virtues, and this habit
once established of universal friendli-
s will become as easy as it is this
morning for a syringa TO flood the air
with sweetness, as easy as it will he
further on in the season for "A quail to
whistle up from the grass. When we
hear something bad about somebody
whom We always supposed to be good,
take out your leadpencil, and say; "Let
me see! Before l accept that baleful
story against that mans character, 1
will take off from it twenty-five per cent.
for the habit of exaggeration which be-
longs to the man who first told the
story; then I will take off twenty-five
per cent. for the additions which the
spirit of gossip i'll every community has
put upon the original story; then l will
take off twenty-five per cent. from the
fact that the man may have been put
into circumstances of overpowering
temptation. So l have taken off seventy
five per cent. But | have not heard
his side of the story at all, and for that
I take off the remaining twenty
five per cent" Excuse me, sir, but |
don't believe a word of it.
But here comes in
A DEFECTIVE MAXIM,
often quoted: ''Where there is so
much smoke there must be some fire"
Look at all the smoke for years around
Jenner, the i~ntroducer of vaccination,
and the smoke around Columbus, the
discOverer, and the smoke around Mar
tin Luther, and S~avonarolo, and Calico,
and Paul, and John, and Christ, and
tell me where was the frei That is one
of the Satanic arts to make smoke with
out fire. SANDER, like the world, may
be made out of nothing. If the Christ
ian, fair minded, common:sepsiOal spirit
in regard to others predominated 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 together? Nothing hut the
grace of God can ever put us into such
a habit of mind and heart as that, The
tendency il in the opposite direction,
This is
THE WAY THE WORLD TALKS;
1 put my name on the back of a mans
note, and l had to pay it, and l will
never again put my name on the back
of any mans note. l gave a beggar ten
cents, and five minutes after / saw him
entering a liquor store to spend it. l
will never again give a cent to Il beggar.
1 helped that young man start in bust
ness, and 10, after a while. he came and
opened a store almost next door to me,
and stole my customers. l will never
again help young man start IN bust
ness. 1 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
So men become suspicious and
and selfish, and at every
wrong done them they put
another layer on the wall of their ex-
c~lusiveness, and another bolt to the door
that shuts them out from sympathy with
the world. They get cheated out of a
thousand dollars, or misrepresented, or
disappointed, or betrayed, and higher
goes the wall, and faster gopa another
Bolt, not realizing that while they lock
others out, they lock themselves in; and
some day they will wake up to find
themselves imprisoned in
A DAsTARDLY
No friends to others, others are nc
friends to them. There's an island half
way between England, Scotland, and
Ireland called the Isle of Man, and the
dash against all sides oft, andI am
told there is no more lovely place than
hat Isle of Man; but when q man be.
comes ~insular in his disposition, aud
cuts himself off from the main land OF
the worlds sympathies, he isdespicable,
and all around him is an Atlantic ocean
of selfishness. Behold that Isle OF
Mani
Now, surprising that you have, by o
divine regeneration, got right toward
God and humanity, and you start out tc
practice my text. "a man that haiti
friends must show himself friendly
Fulfil this by all forms of
APPROPRIATE SALVATION.
Have you noticed that the head IL SC
that the easiest thing on earth j,
to give a nod of recognition? TG sWipG
the head from side TO side, as when il
is wagged in derisipn, ID unnatnrai ano
to throw it hack, invite;
vertigoi hut to drop the chin i'll greeting
il accompanied with so little eSertior
that oil day long, apd every day, you
might practice it without the least sem
hlance of fatigue, So, also, the struct
ure of the hand indicates handshaking
the k1uckles not madesO that the finger
oan turn out, but SO made that the fingers
eau turn in, as in clasping hands; ant
the thumb divided from and set aloo.
from the fingers, so that while the fling
ers take your neighbor's hand ON one
side, the thumb takes it on the other
and, pressed together, all the faculties
of the hand give emphusis 10 the %saluta
ton FIVE sermons in every health,
hand urge US to haBdshaking,
Besides this, every day when yor
start out, load yourself up with
KIND THOUGHTS,
hind wells, hind expressions, and kline
greetings, When a man on womand doe
well, tell him 50, tell her 40. II yol
meet someone who is improved III healti
and It Is demonstrated i'll girth and color
say: ''How we'll You look!' ,Butif, OF
the other hand, under the wear and tea
of life he appears pale and exhausted
do not introduce sgnitGWS sntlects, o
shy a;ny ,l,ins at ali about physical con
dit on. In the case ofimproved health
You have by your words gireI. aiiothe
i'm ulse towards the robust aud ny
jocund; while in the oAse pl the iallin'
health you have arrested the decline b.
Your silence, by which he concludes
iii [ were really So htl.y pf he woul,