Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1891-09-14

and that demonstrates itself all through
everything. 1t is cloudy morning
You meet q pessinist and you say
"What weather to-day?" He answers;
sits going to Storm" and umbrella IN
der arm and waterproof overcoat
show that he is honest In that utter
ance. On the same block, minute al
ter, you meet an optimist, aud you say:
"What weather to-day?" "Good wealth
err; this is only q fog and will soon
scatter" The absence OF umbrella and
absence of waterproof overcoat show IL
is an honest utterance. On your way
at noon to luncheon you meet an optl-
mistic merchant and you say: "What
do you think of the commercial pros
pects?" and he says, "Glorious. Great
crops must bring great business. we
are going to have such an Autumn and
Winter OF prosperity as we have never
seem" On your way back to your store
YOU meet a pessimistic merchant.
''What do you think of the commercial
prospects?" you ask, And he answers:
"Well, l don't know. So much grain
will surfeit the country. Farmers have
more bushels but less prices, and the
grain gamblers will get their fist In 1t.
There is the Mckinley bill, and the hay
crop is short In some places, and in the
Southern part of Wisconsin they had a
hail storm and our business Is as dull as
II 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
gnilt. 1.-THE papers said so, and that's
enough. Down with him." The opti--
mist will say: 81 don't believe word
of it. don't think that man that has
been as useful and seemingly honest for
twenty years could not get OF
the track like that. There are two
sides to this story and 1 will wait to
hear the other side before / condemn
him." My nearer, If you are by nature
pesslmist, make special effort by the
grace of God to extirpate the dolorous
and the hypocritical from your DISPOSE
ton. Believe nothing against anybody
until the wrong is established by at least
two witnesses of integrity. And If guilt
be proven find out the eXtenuating cir
cumstances, if there are any. And then
commit to memory so that you can quote
for yourself and quote for others that
exquisite thirteenth chapter OF First
about charity that suffers
long and is kind, and hopeth all things,
and endureth all things. By pen, by
voice, in public and in private, say all
the good 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 OF your
lips tightly closed, and your tongue shut
up. What place Brooklyn would be
to live in, and all the other cities and
neighborhoods to live In, if charity dom
mated! What If all the old and Young
gossippers were dead. The Lord hasten
their funerals! What II tittle-tattle and
were out of fashion! What
Il In ciphering out the value OF other
peoples character, In our moral arith-
netic we stuck to addition instead OF
subtraction Kindness Let US morn
ng, noon and night pray for it until
We get it. When you can speak good
word for some one, speak 1t. If you can
give letter of commend
4tion, give it. Watch for opportunities
or doing good fifty years after you are
lead. All my life has been affected by
he letter of introduction that the Rev.
Theological Seminary, wrote for me, q
10Y under him, whom | was seeking a
ettlement in whlU- to preaCh
irst pulpit. DR.. Van Vranken has been
cad more than thirty years, yel feel
he touch of that magnificent old pro-
essor. Strange sensation was 1T when
received a kind message from Rev.
Thomas Guard of Baltimore, the great
Methodist orator, six weeks after his
ieath. BY way of the eternal world?
Oh. no, by way Of this world. l did
lot not meet the friend to whom he
rave the message until nearly two
months after Thomas Guard had ascend
ID. So you can start word about some
inc that will be on its travels and Wig
,rous long after the funeral psalm
has been sung at your obsequies.
ZindnesSl Why II fifty men all aglow
With it should walk through the
ost world, methinks they would almost
abolish perdition.
Furthermore, there is kindness of &c
ton. That is what Joseph showed to
his outrageous brothers. That is what
David showed to Mephibosheth for his
father Jonathan's sake. That is what
showed to Paul in the Ro-
man penitentiary. That is what Will
liam Cowper recognized when he said
be would not trust man who would,
with his foot, needlessly crush worm.
That Is what our assassinated President
Lincoln demonstrated when his private
secretary found him in the capitol
grounds trying to get bird back to the
nest from which it had fallen, and
which quality the illustrious man ex.
hiblted years before when having with
some lawyers in the carriage on the
way to court passed on the road swine
fast in the mire, after awhile cried to
his horses "Ho!" and said to the gen.
tleman, 81 must go back and help that
hog out of the mire." And he did go