The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-02-28

triumph over destroyed human cOunte-
nance,
l do not wonder that when an oppos-
ing attorney i'm Philadelphia court
room cruelty referred TO this personal dis
hgurement Benjamin II. Brewster replied
I'm these words: when | was a babe,
was a beautiful blue-eyed child. | know
this because my dear dead mother told
me SO. But l was one day playing with
my sister when her clothes took fire,
and l ran TO her relief and saved her.
but i'll doing so my clothes took fire. and
the fire was not put out until my face
was as black as the heart of the scoun-
drel who has just now referred TO my
Disagreement"
HerOism conquering physical disabill-
ties! That scholarly. regular features
are not Necessary for making powerful
impression witness Paul. who photo
graphs himself as i'm bodily presence
weak" and George WHITEHEAD whose
eyes were struck with strabismus; and
Alexander II. Stephens. who sat pale
and sick in an invalid's chair while he
thrilled the American congress with his
eloquence, and thousands of invalid
preachers and Sabbath-sChOOl teachers
and Christian workers. Aye. the most
glorious being the world ever saw was
forseen by Isaiah. who described his face
bruised and gashed and scarified and
said of him. His visage was SO married
more than any man." SO You see that
the loveliest face in the universe was
scared face.
Rebukc of PesSimism.
And now / am going 10 tell you Of
some of the chisels that work for the
disfguration or irradiation of the human
cOuntenance. one Of the sharpest and
most destructive Of those chisels of the
countenance is cynicism. That sours
the disposition and then sours the face.
II gives a contemptuous curl To the lip.
1t draws down the corners OF the mouth
and initiates the nOstrilS as with a malo-
dor What David said in haste they
say i'm deliberation. "-All men are liars.
Everything is going TO ruin. All men
and women are bad or are going To be.
Society and the church are on the down
grade. Tell them Of an act Of beEeVo-
lence. and they say he gave that 10 adj
vertiSe himself They do not like the
present fashion of hats for women or
of coats for men They are opposed to
the administration. municipal and state
and national. Somehow food does not
taste as il used To. and they wonder
why there are no poets or orators or
preachers as when they were boys
Even Solomon. one of the wisest and
at one time one Of the worst Of men.
falls into the pessimstic mood and cries
out in the twenty-first chapter Of prov
cribs, Who can ind Virtuous woman
II ut udu tcldNtu iiHlStil hflttt anu
kept in good associations, he would not
have written that Interrogation point
implying the scarcity of good woman
hood. CyniciSm. if a habit as il is with
tens of thousands of people. writes itself
all over the features: hence 50 many
sour Visages all up and down the street.
all up and down the church and the
world.
one good way TO make the world
worse Is To say il is worse. Let de-
pressed and foreboding opinion of every
thing take possession Of YOU for twenty
years and you will be a sight To behold.
1t is the chastisement Of God that when
a man allows his heart To- be cursed
with cynicism his face becomes gloOmed
and sCowled and lachrymosed and blast
ed with the same midnight.
The Change of Heart.
But let Christian cheerfulness try its
chisel upon a mans countepance. Feel
ing that all things are for his good. and
that God rules. and that the bible being
true the worlds liberalization is rapidly
approaching. and the day when beer
mug and demijohn and distillery and
bOmbshell and rifle pit and Seventy-fOur
Founders and roulette tables and corrupt
book and satanic printing press will
have quit work the brightness that
comes from such anticipation not only
gives zest To the work. but shines in
his eyes and CLOVIS in his cheek and kim
dies a morning in his entire counte-
nance. Those are the faces / look for in
an audience. Those cOuntenanceS are
sections Of millennial glory. They
are heaven impersonated. They are
the sculpturing Of Gods right hand
They are hOsannas in human flesh They
are hallelujahS alighted. They are
Christ reincarnated.
l do not care what your features are
hnr
your father or look like no one under
the heaNens-to God and man YOU are
beautiful. Michael Angelo. the sculptor
visiting Florence, some one showed him
in back yard piece of marble that
was so ShapeleSS il seemed of no use
and Angelo was asked il he could make
anything out OF il. and if 50 he was told
he could own il. The artist took the
marble and for nine months shut him
self up to work. first trying 10 make Of
ii statue of David. with his foot on
Goliath, but the marble was not quite
long enough at the base 10 make the
PROSTATE form Of the giant and so the
artist fashioned the marble into another
figure that is famous for all time be-
cause of its expessiveaess.
A critic came in and was asked by An
gelO for his criticism and he said II
was beautiful. but the nose of the statue
was not Of right shape Angelo picked
up from the floor some sand and tossed
IL about the face Of the statue. pretend
ing he was using his chisel to make the
Improvement suggested by the critic
What do YOU think Of IL now?' said
the artist. Wonderfully improved, "
said the critic. Well" said the artist,
i have not changed il at ALL"
sly friends, the grace Of God comes 10
the heart Of a man or woman and then
attempts to change any forbidding AMI
pre1udiced face into attractiveness. Per-
hapS the face is the most promising for
the divine sculptor. But having changed
the heart il begins TO work on the coun-
tenance with celestial chisel and into all
the lineaments Of the face puts a glad
ness and an expectation that change il
from glory 10 glory and though earthly
criticism may disapprOve 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.
Shaping the Counfenance.
Here Is another mighty chisel for the
eountenance. and you may call it re-
venge or hate or malevolence. This spir-
it having taken possession of the heart.
it encamps seven devils under the eve
brOws- 1t puts cruelty into the compress
sion Of the lips. You can tell from the
mans looks that he is pursuing some
one and trying TO get even with him.
There are suggestions Of Nero and
Robespierre and DiOcletian and thumb
screws and racks all up and down the
features Internal artists, with murder
ers daggers, have been cutting away
at that visage. The revengeful heart has
hill