West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1889-07-11

OF a mans note and 1 had TO paw it' and will
never again put my name on the back OF znv
mans note. ! gave n beggar ten cents, and
hve minutes after saw him entering lfouor
store TO spend it, win never again give a
cent TO beggar. helped that young man
start In business, and To- after a while. be
came and opened q store almost next door 20
nae, and stole my customers. I win never
again help young man start I'm business I
trusted In what my noighbor promised TO do,
and ne broke HIS word, and the Psalnaist was
right before he corrected himself, for 'all
men are liars" 80 men become suspicious
and saturnine and selfish, and at every addi-
aonai wrong done them they put another
layer on the wall Of their exciusiveness. and
another bolt TO the door that shuts them out
rom sympathy with the world. They get
cneated out OF a thousand dollars or misin-
terpreted, 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 wake up to find themselves imprisoned
In dastardly habit No friends 20 Others.
Others are no friends to them. There's ar,
island half way between England. Scotland
and Ireland, called the Isle Of Man, and the
seas dash against all sides of IL, and am told
tnat there Is no more lovely place than that
Isle OF Man; but when man becomes insular
IN MS disposition, and cuts himself Off from
the main land of the worlds sympathies. he
Is despicable, and all around him Is an Attain
tic Ocean Of selfishness Behold that IsIe ~
Mani
Now, supposing that you have, by divine
regeneration, got right toward God and hui
manty. and you start out TO practice my
text: "a man that hath friends must show
himself friendly" Fulfill this by all forms of
appropriate salutation. Havo you noticed
that tho head is SO poised that the easiest thing
on earth is to give a nod of recognition? To
swing the head from side to side, as when IL
is wagged In derision, Is unnatural and un.
pleasant; to throw it back, invites vertigo:
but 10 drop the chin in greeting Is accom-
panied with so little exertion that all dav
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 finger,
can turn n, IN, as in clasping hands; and the
numb divided from and set aloof from tho
fingers, so that while the fingers take your
neighbor's hand ON one side. the thumb takes
IL on the Other, and pressed together, all the
faculties OF the hand give emphasis TO the
ssaIusatlon. Five sermons in every healthy
hand urge us to Misunderstanding.
Besides this, every day when You start ont
load yourself up with kind thoughts. kind
words, kind expressions and kind greetings
Wnen man or woman does well tell him So
tell her so. II you meet some one who IL i'm.
proved in health, and it is demonstrated in
girth and color, say: "How we'll YOU loolxp,
But II, on the other hand, under the wear and
tear OF life he appears pale and exhausted.
20 not introduce sanitary subjects or say
In the case of improved health, You have by
your words given another impulse toward
the robust and the jocund; while in the
case or the failing health you have arrested
cludes: ''If 1 were really so badly of he
would have said something about it. % We are
all, especially those of a nervous tempera-
ment, susceptible TO kind words and discour-
aglnE 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:D thotf1h
we should start out well, after meeting
the nrst and hearing his depressing salute
we would begin to examine your symptoms
AFTER meeting the second gloomy accosting.
we would conclude we did not feel quite as
wei as usual. After meeting the third, our
sensations would be dreadful and after meet
ing the fourth. unless we expected a conspir-
wcy, 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 disheartenmentsf Is not the
supply OF gloom and trouble and misfortune
enough to meet the demand without your
running factory OF pins and spikesY WHY
should you plant black and blue in the world
when God so seldom plants them Plenty
Oh scarlet colors plenty of yellow, plenty of
green, plenty OF pink, but very seldom a
plant black or blue. / never saw a black
Hover, 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 giooms' Do not prophesy misfortune IL
you must be prophet at all be an Ezekiel
and not Jeremiah. In ancient times proph-
cts VINO 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 or unparalleled scorch. It viii not be
that at all. think we are going to have n
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-l
Der chariots, and no one has any authority
In our time TO announce their coming Load
yourself mp 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 keen miserable
an the time: The old song sung at the pianos
a. quarter OF century ago was right; s'Kind,
words Can Never Die" Such kind words
nave tnelr nests in kind hearts and when
Gle round in flights that never cease and
sportsmans gun cannot shoot them and
storms cannot ruffie their wings. and when
they cease fight in these lower skies OF earth
they sweep around amid the higher attitudes
OF heaven
, Oh what glorious state Of things TO have
the friendship OF Godi Why, we could afford
20 have all tho world against US and all other
worlds against us If we had God for MS He
could IN minute blot out this universe. and
IN another minute make a better universe. Il
have no idea that God tried hard when He'
made all things. The most brilliant thing
known 20 us is light, and for the creation of
tnat he only used n word of command. "A
out OF mint the frOntiersman strikes a shark
so out OF one word God struck the MONDAY
sun For the makingo Of the present universe
do not read that God lifted SO much as n
hnger. The Bible frequently speakg 81
Iods hand, and Gods arm, aud Gods
shoulder, and Gods foot; then sup
pose He should put hand and arm ana
SHOULDER and foot 70 utmost tension. what
.Ould he not makoY That God of such
demonstrated and undemonstrated strength
GA may have for your present and everiast-
% friend. But n stately and retfcent friend
trd 20 get at, but as approachable az a
lntry mansion on a summer day when ALI
doors and windows are wide open
Clrist said. II am the door.s And He is a
wide door, high door, n palace door. an
always open door. Ny four-year-old child
got hurt, and did not cry until hours after
when her mother came home and then sho
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