The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1889-07-11

and for that reason I take off the remaining
| twenty-five per cent" Excuse me- sir, ! don't
believe word Of IL.
But here comes in a defective maxim, so
often quoted: "Where there is so much
| smoke there must be some fire.p Look at all
the smoke for years around Jenner, the intro
ducer Of vaccination; and the smoke around
| Columbus, the discoverer; and the smoke
| around Martin Luther. and Savonarola and
Galieo, and Paul. and John. and Christ, and tell
me where was the fire. That Is one OF the
| Satanic arts 10 make smoke without fire
| Slander, like the world, may bo made out OF
nothing. IL the Christian, fair minded, COM
| mon sensical spirit In regard 70 others pre-
dominated In the world, we should have the
millennium In about six weeks, for would not
| that be lamb and lion, COW and leonard living
down togetheri Nothing but the grace OF
God can ever put us into such habit o:
mind and heart as that The whole tendency
is in the opposite direction. This is the way
| the world talks: ~ put my name on the back
| of mans note, and had TO pay IL, and will
never again put my name on the back of any
mans note. / gave n beggar ten cents, and
| five minutes after saw him entering liuuor
cent to a beggar. helped that young man
start in business, and 10, after a WHILE he
came and opened store almost next door TO
me, and stole my customers. l will never
again help young man start I'm business I
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 liars" So men become suspicious
and saturnine and cclfish, and at every add-
tional wrong done them they put another
layer on the wall Of their exclusiveness, and
another bolt TO the door that shuts them out
/ from sympathy with the world They get
cheated out OF thousand dollars, or misin-
! terpreted. or disappointed, or betrayed, and
higher goes the wall, and fnster goes another
bolt, not realizing that while they lock others
/ ont, they lock themselves in; and some day
they wake up TO find themselves imprisoned
in a dastardly habit. No friends 10 others,
Others are no friends TO them. There's an
island half way between England Scotland
and Ireland, called the Isle Of Man, ana the
seas dash against all sides OF t. and am told
that there is no more lovely place than that
1slc Of Man; but when man becomes insular
In his disposition, and cuts himself of from
the main land of the worlds sympathies. hu
is despicable, and all around him IL an Atlun-
tic Ocean OF selnshneSs Behold that Isle of
Mani
Now, supposing that you have, by divine
I regeneration, got right toward God and hui
manity. and you start out to practice my
text "A man that hath friends must show
himself friendly" Fulfill this by all forms of
appropriate salutaton. Have you noticed
that the head is so poised that the easiest thing
on earth Is TO give n nod Of recognitionf To
swing the head from side to side as when il
is wagged in derision, is unnatural and un.
! pleasant; to throw IL back, invites vertigo;
but to drop the chin in greeting is accom-
panied with so little exertion that all day
long and overy day you might practice IL 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 80 made that the fingers
| can turn in, as in claspng hands; and the
thumb divided from and set aloof from tho
fingers, so 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 10 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 n man or woman does well, tell him so,
tell her so. II you meet somo one who is i'm.
proved in health, and it is demonstrated in
| girth and color, say: "How we'll YOU look~
! 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-
cludes. "If were really SO badly Off, he
would have said something about it." We are
oil, especially those Of a nervous tempera-
ment, susceptible to kind words and dscour-
J aging words. Form u conspiracy against us,
and let ten men meet us at certain points on
our way over TO business, and let each ono
say; How sick you. look" though
| we should start out well, after meeting
the first and hearing his depressing salute,
I we would begin to examine your symptoms
After meeting the second gloomy accosting,
we would conclude we did not feel quite rs
well as usual. After meeting the third, our
sensations would be dreadful and after meet
ing the fourth unless we expected conspir-
ncy, we would go home and 20 20 bed and
| the other six pessimists would be useless sur
| plus OF discouragement. My dear sir my dear
madam, what do you mean by going about
this world with disheagtonmentsf Is not tho
supply OF gloom and trouble and misfortune
| enough 10 meet tho demand without your
running factory of pins and spikesy Why
should you plant black and blue in the world
| when God 50 seldom plants themS Plenty
OF scarlet coors plenty of yellow plenty OF
! green, plenty OF pink, but very seldom n
| plant black or blue. | never saw black
| Hover, and there's only here and thore blue
| bell or violet; but the blue is for the most
! part reserved for the sky, and We have TO
| look up 20 see that, and when We look up no
! color can do MS harm. Why not plant along
the paths of others the brightnesses instead OF
the glooms Do not prophesy misfortune. III
you must be prophet NJ all be an Ezekiel
and not n Jeremiah. In ancient times proph-
cts who foretold evil were doing right, for
they were divinely directed; but the proph-
| 'NS VI tNh IN lliilt are Htl0TallN
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. i think we are going 10 have II
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 win
ter of extraordinary severity, blizzard on the
heels of blizzard. II 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 up with helpful words and deeds
The hymn once sung in our churches is unit
to be sung, for it says;
J 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