The Atlanta constitution., 1894-02-27

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Aye. the most glorious Being the world
ever saw was foreseen by Isaiah who de-
! scribed his face bruised and gashed and
| scarified anc said of him, His visage was
| so marred more than any man." So you see
that the loveliest face in the universe was
| Il SCARED face.
And now l am going to tell you Of some of
! the chisels that work for the distguration
or irradlatfon of the human countenance.
! One of the sharpest and most destructive of
! these chSels of the countenance is cynic-
ism. That sours the disposition and then
sours the face. 1t gives contemptuouS curl
to the lip. 1t draws down the corners of the
mouth and initiates the nostril as with 81
malodor. What David said in haste they
say in their deliberations: "All men are
liars;'' everything is going to ruin. All men
and women are bad, or going to be. So
ciety and the church are on the down grade.
Tell them of act of benevoence. and
they say he gave that to advertise himself.
They do not like the present fashion OF
hats for women or of the coats for men.
They are opposed to the administration,
municipal and state. and national. Some
how. food does not taste as it used to. and
they wonder why there are no poets or
orators. preachers as when they were
boys. Even Solomon one of the wisest,
and. at time, one of the worst men.
falls in the pessimstic mood and cries out
in the twenty-first chapter OF Proverbs
"Who can find Virtuous woman? If he
ndu DeiltN6u nliuSeil DellcT s.Hi htpl IA sooc'
associations, he would have not written that
Interrogation point applying the scarcity OF
good womanhoOd CyniciSn, ii n habit, as
it is with tens of thousands Of people, writes
itself all over the features: hence so many
sour Vissages all up ard down the street.
up and down the church and the world.
One good way to make the world wise IS
to say it is worse. Let a depressed ana tore
boding opinion of everything take possession
of you for twenty years, and you VIII ne
n sight to behold. 1t is the chastlsemeit ol
God that when a man allows his heart 10
lie cursed with cyncsm his face becomes
eioomed and scowled and lachrymosed ana
blasted with The same mldnlGht.
But let Christian cheerfulncss try us
chisel upon a mans countenance. Feeling
that all things are for his good, and that
God rules. and that the Bible being true
the worlds foralzation is rapidly approach
ing, and the day when beer mug, ana dehll-
john, and distillery, and bombShell ana
rife pit, and seventy-four pounperS' ana
roulette tables, and corrupt books, ana Sa-
tanic printing press will have quit work,
the brightness that comes from such ailtcl-
patton not only gives zest to his work. bui
shines in his eyes and SloWS IN ms cneeli
and kindles a morning in his entire coHh-
tenance. Those are the faces | look for in
an audience. Those cOuntenances are sec
tions Of millennal glory. They are heaven
inpersona ted. They are the scupturinS pt
COOS right hand. They are hosnnnas in
human flesh. They are halleluJahs a-hGht-
ed They are Christ reincarnated j do not
care what your features are or whether
YOU look like Your father. or your mother,
look like one under the heaFenS-to
God and man you are beautiful Mlchael
Angelo, the sculptor. visiting Florence, some
one showed him in Il yard piece of marble
that was SO ShapelesS it seemed of no use.
and Angelo was asked if he could make
anything out of it, and if so was told he
could own it. The artist took the marble,
aud for nine months shut himself up to
work FIRST trying to make of it a statue of
David with his foot on Goliath. but the mar
be was not quite long enough at the base
to make the PROSTATE form OF the giant,
and so the artist fashioned the marble
into another figure that is to be famous
tain time because of its eXpressiveness.
ltlvely &C came in and asked by Angelo
oes te15 criticism and he said it was beaut-
, 80 tiI1 ut the nose of the statue was not OF
peIildPs 5i hit shape. Angelo picked up from the
fsc.,r of,rue sand and tossed it about the
il Yet il waatue. preopding he was using
GLE in which the stronger was IEement SuS
the weaker, and the universal to sulderfdi''Ns
the purely local. said the
1t is possible that the ST ~, ~,
who shrank -i,o ,k 80. -stilssed 1t at all MY
frie}sd3--the grace of God comes the
heart of d man woman and then at
tempts to change fOrbidding and prejudi-
cial face into attractiV eneSs. Perhaps the
face is most unpromisinG for the Divine
Sculptor. But having changed the heart
II DeSlnS 10 WORK On tne tOuiIltlldIlCt Nltl
celestial chisel and i1to all the lineaments
of the face puts gladness aud an eXpecta
ton that changes it from glory to glory,
and though earthly criticism may diSap
prove of this or that in the appearance Of
the face Christ says Of the newly created
countenance that which PLATE said OF Him
''Behold the man!'
Here is another mighty chisel for The
countenancc. and you may call it revenge or
hate or malevolence. This spirit having
taken possession OF the heart it Cncamps
seven devils under the eyebrows. 1t puts
cruelty into the compression of the lips.
You can tell from the mans looks that he
is pursuing some one and trying to set even
with him. There are suggestions of Nero,
and Robespcrre, and DiOcletan, and thumb
screws and racks all up and down the feat
ures. Internal artists with murderers' dag
gers have been cutting away at that Wis
age. The revengeful heart has built its
perdition n the rcvcngefu countenance.
Disguration of diabolic passion!
But here comes another chsel to shape
the countenance, and it is kindness. There
came a moving day, and into her soul NOV
ed the whole family of Christian graces,
with all the children and grandchildren,
and the command has come forth from
the heavens that that Woman's face shall
be made to correspond with her superb soul.
Her entire face from ear to ear becomes
the canvas on which all the best artists
of heaven begin to put their finest strokes,
and OF the small compass of that face are
put pictures of sunrise over the sea, and
angels of mercy going up and down lad
ders all a-nash, and mountains of tranSflg-
uration and noon-day in heaven. Kindness!
1t is the most magnificent sculptor that
ever touched human countenance. No one
could wonder at the unusual Genlallty IN
the face of William Window, secretary of
the treasury of the United States, after
seeing him at the New York banquet just
before he dropped dead. turning his wine
glass upside down, saying: Il may by
doing this offend some, but by not doing
| might damage many" BE kind to your
friends. Be kind to your enemies. BE kind
to the young. BE kind 10 the Old. BE KIND
to your rulers. BE kind to your servants
BE kind to your superors. BE kind to your
interiors Be kind to your horse. BE Kind
to your dog. BE kind to your cat. Morn
ing, noon and night be kind and the effects
of it will be written i'll the language OF
vour face That is the gospel of physiog-
nomy. A., ., -
A f{ayonne merchant was i'll the south OF
Europe for his health, and sitting on the
terrace one morning in, his invalidsm, he
saw q rider flung from horse INTO th;
river and without thinking oL MS own
weakness the merchant dung off his nVa-
lids gown and leaped into the stream and
swan to the drowning man, ana ctutchlhS
him as he was about to sink the last tine,
bore him in safety to the bank, when Slanc-
ing into the face of the rescued man, he
cried. .'hIy God! have saved nay own son.
All kindness comes back to us in one way