The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1889-07-12

habit once established of universal
friendliness will become as easy as 1t is
this morning for a syringa to flood the
air with sweetness, as easy as it will be
further on in the season for quail to
whistle up from the grass When we
hear some thing bad about somebody
whom we always supposed to be good
take out your lead pencil and say: ''Let
me sect Before I accept that baleful
story against that mans character, will
take off from it twenty-five per cont. Tor
the habit Of exaggeration which belongs
TO the man who first told the story; then
viii take of twenty-five per cent. for
the additions which the spirit Of gossip
in every community has put upon the
original story; then I 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 of seventy five per cent But
have not heard his side of the story at
all, and for that reason L take off the re-
naming twenty five per cent" Excuse
me, sir, don't believe a word of it.
But here comes in a defective maxim,
so often quoted: ''Where there is so
much smoke there must be some fire."
Look at all the smoke for years around
Jenner, the introducer of vaccinations;
and the smoke around Columbus, the
discOvererS and the smoke around Martin
Luther, and Savonarola, and Calico, and
Paul. and john, and Christ, and tell me
where was the fire? SANDER, like the
world, may be made out of nothing. If
the Christian, fair-minded, common
sensicaI spirit in regard to others pre-
dominated in the world we should have
the millennium in about six weeks, for
would not that be la NIB and lion, COW
and leopard lying down together? Moth
ing but the grace of God can ever put us
into such a habit of mind and heart as
that The whole tendency is in the oppo-
site direction. This is the way the
world talks: put my name on the back
of a mans note and 1 had t. pay it, and 1
will never again PIT my name on the
back of any mans note. gave beggar
ten cents, and five minutes after 1 saw
him entering a liquor store to spend it. 1
will never again give a cent to a beggar.
helped that young man start in bust
ness, and 10, after awhile, he came and
opened a store almost next to me, and
stole my customers. 1 will never again
help young man start in business. /
trusted in what my neighbor promised to
do, and he broke his word, and the Psalm
ist was right before he corrected himself
for ''all men are liars"
Now, supposing that you have, by a
divine regeneration, got right toward
God and humanity, and you start out to
practice my text: "A man that hath
friends must show himself friendly"
Fulfill this by all forms of appropriate
tatiOns. Have you noticed that the
head is so poised that the easiest thing
on earth is to give q nod of recognition?
To swing the head frOIi side to side, as
when it is wagged in derision, is IN
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
semblauce of fatigue. So, also, the
structure of the hand indicates hand
shaking; the knuckles not made so that
the fingers can turn out, but so made
/ that the fingers can turn in as in clasping
/ hands; aud the thumb divided from and
/ set aloof from the fingers. that while
/ the fingers take your neighbours hand on
| one side, the thumb takes It 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 handshakiug.
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 improved in health, aud
it is demonstrated in mirth and color.
| say: "How well you look!' But if on the
/ other hand, under the wear and tear of
! life, he appears pale and exhausted, do
/ not introduce sanitary subjects, or say
any thing at all about physical cOndi-
! tiOns. In the case Of improved health,
! you have by your words given another
| impulse towards the robust aud the jo-
| cuud; while in the case of the failing
health you have arrested the decline by
your silence, by which he concludes: 'Ii
/ 1 were really so bad off, he would have
| said something about it."
We are all, especially those of nerv-
| Gus temPeram ent, susceptible 70 kind
words ana discouraging words. Form q
! conspiracy against us, and let ten men
meet US at certain points on our way tC
| business, and let each one say: GLOW
| sick you look" though we should start
out we'll, after meeting the first and hear
/ ing his depressing salute, we would be-
/ gin TO examine our symptoms. After
meeting the second gloomy accosting we
would conclude we did not feel quite as
well as usual. After meeting the third
our sensations would be dreadful; and
after meeting the fourth, unless we ex-
pected a conspiracy, we would go home
and go to bed, and the other six pes
simists would be a useless surplus of dis
cuura cement. Ny dear sir, my dear
madam, what do you mean by going
| about TINS world with dfSheartenmeutSi
Is not the supply OF gloom, and troub le
and misfortune enough to meet the de-
mand, without your running a factory OF
pins and spikes? Why should you plant
black aud blue in the world when God SO
seldom plants them? Plenty of scarle
colors, plenty of yellow, plenty of green
plenty of pink, but very seldom plant
black or blue.
never saw black flower, and there.
| only here and there a blue bell or viO-
let; but the blue is for the most part re.
served for the sky, and we have to lool
! up TO see that, and when we look up ne
color can do US harm. Why not plan
along the paths of others the brightnessee
instead of The glooms? Do not prophecy
misfortune. II you must be a prophet a
all be an Ezekiel, and not jeremiah. II
ancient times prophets who foretoid evi
were doing right for they were divinel,
directed; but the prophets of evil in on
time are generally false prophets. Som,
of our weather. wise people are prophesy
ing that We shall have a summer o
unparalleled scOrch. Il will not be tina
at all. l think we are going 20 have
summer uf great harvest aud universe
health; at eny rate know as much abou
il as they do. Last fan all the weather
/ prophets agreed in saying we SHOULD
| have a winter of xtraoI binary severity
billiards. on the heels Of blizzard. II wa
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