The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-09-24

cles. Then it Is surrounded by the teet,,
OF the lower jaw, 80 many ivory bars,
and then by the teeth Of the upper Jaw,
more ivory bars. Then outside Of ali
are the two lips with the power of COM
preston and arrest, and vet notwith-
standing these four imprisonments or
limitations, how many take no hint in
regard to the dangerous power of the
tongue, and the results are iaceratlon,
specification and damnation.
There are those If they know good
thing about you and bad thing. will
mention the bad thing and act as though
they had never heard the good thing.
Now there are two sides to almost every
ones character, and we have the choice
of overhauling the virtue or the vice.
We can greet Paul and the ships crew
as they come up the beach of Malta with
the words: "What a sorry looking set
you are! How little of navigation YOU
must know TO run on these rocks! Didn't
you know better than to put out on the
Mediterranean this wintry month? It
was not much of a ship anyhow, or it
would not have gone to pieces so soon
as that. Well, what do you want? We
have hard enough work to make living
for ourselves, without having thrust on
us two hundred and seventy-slX raea-
muffins."
Not so said the Maltese. l think they
said: Come in! Sit down by the fire
and warm yourselves! Glad that YOU
all got OIL with your lives. Make YOUR
selves at home. You are welcome to
all we have until some ship comes in
sight and YOU resume your voyage.
Here, let me put bandage on your
forehead, for that is an ugly cash you
got from the floating timbers, and here
is man with a broken arm. We will
have a doctor come to attend to this
fracture" And though for three
months the kindness went on, we have
but little more than this brief record,
The barbarous people showed us no
little Kindness"
on! say the cordial thing! Say the
useful thing! Say the hospitable thing!
Say the helpful thing! Say the Christ
like thing! Say the kind thing! L adj
nit that this is easier for some tempera. .
ments than for others. Some are born
pessliulsts, and some are born optlmlsts,
and that demonstrates itself all through
everything. 1t is a cloudy morning
You meet pcssimist and you say,
what weather today?" He answers,
Its going to Storm" and umbrella
under arm aud waterproof ovcrcoat
show that he Is honest in that utter
ance. On the same block, minute af-
ter, you meet all optimist, and you say,
"What weather today" Good wealth
er; this is only fog and will soon scat.
ter.' The absence of umbrella and alb,
sence OF waterproof overcoat show it is
an honest utterance.
On your way at noon to luncheon yor
meet an optimistic merchant and yor
say, What do you think Of the com
mercial prospects," and he says
"Glorious. Great crops must brlns
great business. We are going to have
such an autumn and winter of prosperity
as we have never seen." On your way
back to your store you meet a pessimis
tic merchant. "What do you think oil
The commercial prospects?" you ask
Aud he answers: "Wcl!, 1 don't know
So much grain will surfet the country
Farmers have more bushels but less
prices, and the grain gamblers will get
their fist IN. There is the Mckinley bill,
and the hay crop is short in some places,
and in the southern part of Wisconsin
they had hailstorm, and Our business
Is as dull as 1t ever was" You will
find the same difference in judgment of
character. a man of good reputation
is assailed and charged with some evil
deed. AT the first story the pessimist
will believe in guilt. 1.-THE papers said
so, and that's enough. Down with
hlm!"
OPTIMIST AND PESSIMIST.
The optimist will say: II don't be-
lieye word of it. l don't think that a
man that has been rs useful and seem.
ingly honest for twenty years could have
got of the track like that. There are
two sides to this story, and l will wait
to hear the other side before l condemn
him." My hearer, if you are by nature
pesslmist, make a slYecial effort by the
grace OF God to eXtirpate the dolorous
and the hypercritical from your DISPOSE
ton. Believe nothing against anybody
until the wrong is established by at least
two witnesses ofintegrity. And if guilt
be proved, find out the cXtenuating cir
cumstances if there are any.
And then commit to memory 80 thai
you can quote for yourself and quote for
others that exquisite thirteenth chapter
OF First Corinthians about charity that
suffers long and is kind, and hopeth all
things and cndureth all things. BY
pen, by voice, in public and in private, =,
say all Iood about people you can think
OF, and if there be nothing good, then
tighten the chain of muscle on the back
end OF your tongue, and keep the ivory
bars OF teeth on the lower jaw and the
ivory bars of teeth on the upper Jaw
locked and the gate o. your lips tightly
closed and your tongue shut uD.
What a place Brooklyn would be to
live in, and all the other cities and
neighborhoods to live IN, if charity DOM
mated! What ii all the young and old
gossipers were dead! The Lord hasten
their funerals! What if tittle-tattle and
whispering were out of fashion! What
II in cipherng out the value OF other
peoples character, in our moral arith-
metlc, we struck TO addition instead of
satisfaction! Kindness! Let us morn
ing, noon and night pray for it until we
get it. When you can speak good
word for some one speak it. If you can
cOnscienti0usly give letter or c0mmen-