Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1894-03-09
J fHHFEYH HgHHtA hYn FACE
II iainaee Brings Words OF Cheer
TO Homely People. =
with GOD In Their Live. ana - g.,
Their Hearts the Hons,isst w..
may become Transfirured
.~ss, and Attractive.

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AS the subject Of recent sermon in
the brooklyn tabernacle Rev r. Da-
wiz !, ialmage took THE, Human
acc oaslng his words on the text:
a. mans wisdom maketh hfs face. 70 alma
anu she Doioness Of his face shall he CHANGED.
-Ecclesiates. Wifi l. ~ ''' 'n"ns oN'
mus q iittie change in. our English
translator. . brings out. the better mean AN.
ing OF the text, which sets forth that
the character of the face is decided bv
Inc character of the SOUL The nnaif,
features OF our countenance were de-
clded by the Almighty, and we can not
ciiahge enem; but under God we de-
cue "hether we shall have counte-
nances benignant or baleful. sour or
swee WTat1ul or genial, benevolent
or sneaB3 henest or scoundrelly. ifn-
pndent or modest, Outrageous or cow
afdi " frank or sneaking. In all the
works OF God there is nothing more
wonderful than the human counte-
nance. Though the longest face is
less than twelve INCHES from the hair
line Of the forehead to the bottom OF
the chin, and the broadcast face is less
than ielght.inches from cheek bone to
cheek bone, yet in that small compass
uod hath wrought such differences
that the one billion and six hundred
million OF the human race may be dis
tingulShed from each other by their
faclal appearance. The face is ordi-
narlly the index of character. 1t is the
throne of emotions 1t is the battle
field of the passions. It is the catalogue
OF character. 1t is the map of the mind.
Now, what practical religious and
eternal use would | make of this sub
]ect? | am going to show that while
we are not responsible for features,
the Lord Almighty having decided
what they shall be pre-natally, as the
Psalmist declares when He writes: 'In
Thy book all my members were writ
ten which in continuance were fash
Toned when as yet there was none OF
Them" yet the character which under
God we form will chisel the face most
nightly. Every man would like to
have been made in appearance an
Alcibiades, and every woman would
like to have been made a Josephine.
We all want to be agreeable. Our
usefulness depends so much upon it
that | consider it important and Chris
tan for every man and woman to be
as agreeable as possible. The SLOUGH.
the sloven, the man who does not care
how he looks, all such people lack
equipment for usefulness A minister
who has to throw guild of tobacco out
of his mouth before he begins to
preach, or Christians with beard un-
trimmed, making them to look like
wild beasts come out of the liar, yea,
unke!npt, uncombed, unwashed, disa-
greeable men or women, are q
hndrance to religion more than a
recommendation.
And now | am going to tell you OF
some of the chisels that work for the dis
fguration or irradiation ofethe human
countenance. One of the sharpast and
most destructive of those chisels of the
countcnance in Cynicism. That sours
the disposition and then sours the
face. It gives a contemptuous curl to
the lip. 1t draws now the corners of
the mouth and initiates the noStril as
with malodor What David said in
haste they say in their deliberation:
''All men are liars" everything is GO
ing to ruin. ALI men and women are
bad, or going to 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
himself They do not like the present
fashion of hats for women, or of coats
for men. They are opposed to the ad-
ministration, municipal, and state, and
national. Somehow, food does not
taste us 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,
calls into the peSsimistic mood, and
cries out in the twenty-tirst chapter OF
Proverbs: "Who can find virtuous
woman?" If he had behaved himself
better and kept in good associations he
would not have written that interroga-
TN 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; hence
SO many sour visages all up and down
the church and the world. One good
way to make the world worse is to say
it is worse Let depressed and fore
boding opinion of everything take
possession of you for twenty years and
you will be sight to behold. 1t Is
the chastisement of God that when
man allows his heart to be cursed
with cynicism his face becomes
gloomed and scowled and lachrymosed
and blasted with the same midnight.
But let Christian cheerfulness try
its chisel upon mans countenance.
Feeling that all things are Tor ms
good, and that God rules, and that the
Bible being true the worlds horallza-
ton is rapidly approaching, and the
day when beer-mug, and demlJohn,
and distillery, and bomb-shell, and
rifie-pit and seventy-four pounders'
and roulette tables. and corrupt books,
and satanic printing press Will have
quit work, the brightness that comes
from such anticipation not only gives
zest to his work, but shines In ms eyes
and glows in his cheeks and klndles
morning in his entire countenance
hose are the faces look lof ia az u
dience. Those countenances are sections
of millennial glory. They are Heaven
impersonated They are the sculpturlng
of Gods right hand. They are hosan'
mas in human flesh. They are halle
luiahs alighted. They are christ re
incarnated. / do no care what your
features are or whether you look like