The Penn's Grove record., 1894-03-02

draws down the corners OF the mouth ana
initiates the uoStril AS with q malodor. nat
David said in haste they say in their deitOer-
alton, IAN men are liars" everything Is go
ing to ruin. AL men and women are bad or
art going to be. Society and the church are
m 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 ome or or coats
for men. They are opposed to the adminis-
tration. municipal and State and National
somehow God does not taste as u used TO,
and they wonder why there are no poets or
o-ltors 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 p~rssimistic mood and
cries out in the twenty-irst chapter OF Fro-
yer -, who can find a virtuous woman
IT he had behaved himsalf better and kept in
good associations, he would not have written
that interrogation point tmplyingthe scarcity
Of good ~womanhood. Cynicisn, it a habit,
as it is with tens of thousands OF people,
writes itself all over the features hence so
many sou visages all up and down the
street, all up and down the church and tho
world. One good way TO make the world
worse is to say 1t is worse. Let a depressed
and loreboding opinion of everything lake
possession of you for twenty years, n you
will be a sight to behold. 1t is the chastise-
4 Iltilt VI ATpu IiHt Wlibu u man hiAoNS hAo
heart TO be cursed with cynlcism his face be-
comes gloomed and scowled and ~lachrymosed
and blasted with the same midnight.
But let Christian cherriulness try its 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.
horalization is rapidly approaching, and the!
day when beer mug and demijohn and dlstli1
lery and bombshell and rife pit saventy-four
Dnundar and rnTiatta fablns and g0rruDt1
book 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 his eyes and glows in his.
entire countenanee. Those are the facts L
look for in an audience. Those countenancesi
are sections of millennial glory. They are,
heaven i~mpersonated. They are the SOUP
turing of Gods right hand. They are ho-
sannas in human flesh. They are halleluiahs
alighted. They are Christ reincarnated. l
donot 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 maj you are beautiful.
Michael Angelo, the sculptor, visiting
Florence, some one showed him in a back
| yard a piece of marble that was so shapeles5
that it seemed of no use, and Angelo was
asked If he could make anything out of it,
and II 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 Go
Hath, but the marble was not quite long
enough at the base to nah the PROSTATE
form of the giant, and so the artist fashioned
the marble into another figure that is so IA
nous for all time because of its expressive
ness. A critic came in and was asked by
Angelo for his criticism, and he said it was
beautiful, but the nose OF the statute was
not Of right shape. Angelo picked up
from the floor some sand and tossed
it about the face OF the statue PRETEND
ing he was using his chisel to make the
Improvement suggested by the critic.
lrWhat do you think of it now?" said the
artist. "Wonderfully improved" said the
critic. swell, y said the artist, 81 have not
changed it at ALL" My friends, the grace OF
GOD comes to the heart of a man or woman
and then attempts to change a forbidding
aud preiudicial face into attractiveness. Per-
haps the face is most unpromising for tho
Divine Sculptor. But having changed the
heart it begins to work on the countenance
with celestial chisel, and into all the Inca
ments OF the face puts a ~gladness and an ex-
pectation that changes it from glory to glory,
and though earthly criticism may disapproye
ofthls or that in the appearance of the face
Christ says OF the newly created countenanee
that which PLATE said Of Him, Behold the
mani
Here is another nightly chisel for the
c~ountenance. and you may call it revenge or
hate or malevolence. This spirit having
taken possession of the heart. it encamps
seven devils under the eyeI rows. 1t puts
cruelty into the compression of the lips.
You eau tell from the mans looks that he Is
pursuing 50 ne one and trying to get eve
with him. There are suggestions of Nero
and r oJespierre and Diocletian and thumb
screws and racks all up and down the feat
ures. Internal artists with murderers' dag
gers nave been cutting away at that visage.
The %revengeful heart has built its perdition
in the r~evengeful countenance. Disfgura-
ton OF diabolic passion!
But here comes another chisei to shape the
countenanee, and it is kindness. There
came a moving day, and into her soul moved
the whole family of Christian graces, with
all their children and grandchildren, andthe
command has come forth from the heavens
| that that woman's face shall be made to cor
respond with her superb soul. Her entire
face from ear 10 ear becomes the canvas on
which all the best artists of heaven begin to
nut their finest strokes, and on the small
| compass OF that face are put pictures of sun
rise over the sea, and angels of mercy going
up and down ladders all afiash, n mount
| aims OF TRANSPORTATION and MONDAY in
heaven. Kindness! 1t is the most magnih-
cent sculptor that ever touched human
l COuHlcuuntcs
No one could wonder at the unusual
geniality il the face OF William Window, Sec
| retarv OF the Treasury of the United States,
| after seeing him at the New York banquet
[ lust before he dropped dead, turning his
4 wineglass upside down, saying, ~ may by
| doing this offend some. but by not doing it !
might damage many" Be kind to your
| friends. Be kin TO our enemies, Be kind
to the young. Be ind to the old. Be kind
to your rulers. Be kind to your servants
Be kind to your superiors. Be kind to youl
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 in the language of your
face. That is the gospel OF ~physiognomy.
A Bayonne merchant was in the south o
Europe for his health, and sitting on the ter.
race one morning in his invalidism he saw &
rider flung from a horse into a river, and
without thinking OF his own weakness the
merchant flung off his invalid's gown and
swan TO the drowning man, and clutehine
him as he was about to go down the last
time bora him in safety to the bank, wher
glancing into the face OF the rescued man he
| cried. s!My God, 1 nave saved my own son !
All kindness comes back to us in one way o.
! another il not in any other way, then ii
your own face. Kindness! Show it t.
| others. for the time may come when you will
need 1t Yourself. People laughed at the lioI
because he spared the mouse that ran owe
him when BY one motion ofhis paw the mon
ster could have crushed the insignificant dis
turber. But it was we'll that the lion ha.
mercy on the mouse, for oneday the lion wa!
caught in a trap and roared f~earfully because
he was held fast by ropes. Then the nous
knawed off the ropes n let the lion go free
You may consider yourself a lion, but 20
cannot afford TO despise a mouse.
When Abraham Lincoln pardoned a youni
! soldier at the request OF his mother, tn.
mother went down the stairs OF the Whit,
House SAYING ''They have lied about In.
Presidents being homely. He is the hand
somest man 1 ever saw All over that Presi
dents rugged face WAS written the kindnes
/ which he so we'll illustrated when he said
'aSome of our generals complain that 1 i'm
pair discipline aud subordinatlon in thu
army by my pardons and respites, but /
makes me rested after a hard days work If
can find some good excuse FOR saving a man
life. and 1 go to bed happier as I think hov
ioyous the signing of my name will max
him and his family" Kindnessl 1t make
the face shine while life lasts and after deaf
puts a summer sunset between the still lip
and the smoothed hair that makes me sa
sometimes at obsequies, "She seems to
beautiful to bury"
But here comes another ehisel, and II
name is hypocrisy. Christ, with one terrifi