The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-02-26

presidential cabinet. What a triumph
over destroyed human counte
nance. ! do not wonder that wher
an opposing attorney in a Philadelphia
court room. cruelty referred to this per
sonal disagreement, BENJAMIN F. Brew
ster replied in these words: when / was
babe 1 was bsa ltiful blue-cyed child
/ ! know thissbeCause nv dear dead mother
told me 90; bat | was one day playing
1 with my sister, when her clothes took fire
aud I ran TO her relief, and saved her, but
in doing 50 my clothes took fire, and the
| fire was not put out until my face was as
black as the heart of the scoundrel who
/ has just now referred to my disfigure
[ ment.n HerOism conQuering physiCa
| disabilities. That scholarly regular fea
| lures are not necessary for making power
! ful impression. witness Paul. who photo
| graphs himself as in bodily presence
weak and George Whiteield, whose
/ eyes were struck with strabismus; and
! Alexander II. Stephens, who sat with pale
/ and sick face in invalid chair while he
! thrilled the Ameri an congress with his
/ eloquence; and thous N of iuvli1
! preachers, and Sa ia n 5. hoOl teachers.
/ and Christian work rs. Aye. the most gior-
! lous Being the world ever saw was fore
/ seen by Isaiah who described his face
| bruised and gashed, and scarifed, and
| said of him: His visage was so married
| more than any man. So you see that
| the loveliest face in the universe was a
| SCARED face.
and now am going to tell you of some
| of the chisels that work for the distigura-
! ton or irradiation of the human counte-
nance. One of the sharpest and most de-
| structive of those chisels of the cOunte-
| nance is cynicism. That sours the dispo-
sition and then sours the face. 1t gives
| contemptuous curl to the lip. 1t draws
down the corners of the mouth ana in
| fates the nostril as with a malodor
| What David said in haste they say in
their elaboration: "All men are liars !"
everything is going TO ruin. All men and
women are bad, or going 10 be. Society
and the church are on the down grade.
Tell them of an act of benevolence, and
they say he gave that to advertise him
self. 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. Some
how food does not taste as it 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 pessimis-
tic mood, and cries out in the Jwenty-frst
chapter of Proverbs. ''Who can find a
himself better and kept in good associa-
ton, he would not have written that in
terrogation point implying the scarcity
Of good womanhood. Cynicism, if habit,
as it is with tens of thousands of people,
writes itself all over the features: hen e
so 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 1t is worse Let
depressed 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 1achrymosed, and blasted
with the same midnight.
But let Christian cheerfulness try its
chisel upon mans countenance. Feeling
that all things are for his good, and that
God rules, and that the Bible being true,
the worlds fiorali alton is rapidly APP
preaching, aud the day when bear-mug
and demil ohm, and disJillery, and bomb
shell. and ri1e-pit, and seventy-four
Founders, and roulette tables. and corrupt
book and satanic printing press will have
quit work, the brightfie that comes
from such anticipation not only gives ze5t
to, his work but shines in his eyes and
glows in his cheek and kindles morning
IN his entire couutenance. Those are the
faces | look for in an audience. Those
CountenanceS are sections of millenuial
glory. I icy are heaven impersonated.
They are the sculpturing of Gods right
hand. They are hosannas in human flesh
They are hallelu abs a-lighted They
are Christ reincarnated l do
not care what your features are
or whether you look like your
father, or your mother or look like no
one under the heavens-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 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, and 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 marble 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
famous for all time because of its express
siyeness. a critic came in and was asked
by Angelo for his criticism, and he said
it was beautiful, but the nose of the
statue was not OF right shape. Angelo
picked up from the floor some sand and
tossed it about the face of the statue,
pretending he was using his chisel
TO make the Improvement suggeste led
by the critic "What do YOU thin6 of it
nowR'' said the artist. wonderfully i'm
Proved said the critic well" said
the artist II have not changed it at all ~
My friends, the grace of God comes to the
heart of a man or woman and then at
tempts to change a forbidding and pre-
judicial face into attractiveness Per
haps the face is most unpromisng for the
Divine Sculptor. But having changed
the heart it begins TO work on the counte-
nance with celestial chisel, and into all
the lineaments of the face puts gladness
and an expectation that changes il from
glory to 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 Iilate
said of Him Behold the mani"
Here is another mighty chisel for the
countenance, and you may call it revenge,
or hate, or malevo ence This spirit
having taken. possession of the heart it
encampsseven devils under the eye brows.
IL puts cruelty into the compression of
the lips. You can tell from the man S
looks that he is pursuing some one and
trying to get even with him. There are
suggestions of Nero, and Robespierre, and
Diocletian, and thum bscrews and raczs
all up and down the features Internal
artists with murderers' daggers have
been cutting away at that visage The
revengeful heart has built its perdition
in the revengeful countenance. Dishg-
/ uratlon OF dia bolic passion