The Progress., 1894-03-03

the signing Of my name will make hin
and his famiIy.' Kindness, IT make
b the face 20 shine while life lasts. an,
after death puts a summer sunset be
tween the still lips and the smoothc,
hair, that makes me say sometimes a
obseQuies, She seems too beautiful t,
bury.'
But mere col0rS another chiScl, an,
It's name is hypocrisy. Christ with on,
terrific stroke in his Sermon on tn,
Mount Described this charactE,.
wv hen yc fast be not as the hvpo
critics, Of a sad cOuntcnancc; for they
dISligurc their faces that they may ap
pear unto men to fast IIypocris,
having taken possession Of the soul if
immediately appears III the cOuntc
nance. llypocrItcS are always so,cmn
Ih"y carry several country grave
yards IN their faces. They are fearful
when there is nothing to cry about,
and in their prayers they catch for
trnir breath, and have such general
doIcfulncss that they disgust young
people with religion. We had one
OF them in one Of my churches.
. When he cNhortcd he always dc
pIorcd the low state Of religion in
. other people, and when he prayed it
was an attack Of hystcria, and ne went
/ into q paroNySG Of obs and abs that
seemed to doIland rcsuscitation. lie
+ went ON in that way until we had to
. cNpcl him from church i)r stealing the
/ property intrustcd to him as admjnis-
TRAITOR and for other vices that win
not mention, and he wrote me scvcra,
letters not at all pIimcntary from
the west saying that to was daily
praying for my everlasting dcStrq.-
ton. y man can not have hypocrisy
in his heart without somehow showing
it in his face All D,tcIligcnt people
who witness it know it is nothing but
a dramatization.
Here comes another chiScI, and that
belongs to the old-fashioncd religion.
1t first takes possession Of the whole
soul, washing out its sins by the blood
Of the Lamb and startling heaven right
there and then. This done deep down
in the heart, religion says; "Now let
mo co pnt T., +bo ,,.;,,l. l r
gate of the face and set up
some SIGNAL th,t horo t,1.on
possession Of this c,stle Viii
celebrate the victory bv an illun;n,
tion that no ono c,n ,ni,+ol,o b,,a
made this man honnv and NOW
will m,l,o mir, 1nol, b,,,n,,
I will draw thc corners of bic
mouth as far m as thov ,vora d,o,yn
down. will t,.c fine contcmntuon,
curl away from fine lin and rostriI !
will make his evoc Hocb and bie o1,oo1.r
GLOW at every mention Of Christ and
heaven. will mako oven +hc v,ripl,Io.
of his face look like Throws nIowod
or the harvcsts of iov. | will make
what we call the crow's feet oro,nd
his TEMPLES successive that fine dovo
of peace has been olinhtinr tbcro -
There NAV be sions Of troubIo an that
face, but trouble sanctifcd. There
may be scars Of battle on that face,
but they will be sears of campaigus
won.
Now" says some one, 81 know
very good people who have no such re-
ligion in their faces" Nv friend. thc
reason probably is that thew were not
converted until late in life. Worldli |
ness and sin had been at work with
their chisels on that face for thirty or
forty years, and Grace, the divine
sculptress, has been busy with her
chisel only five or ten wears. Do not
be surprised that Phidias and Gree
nough with their fine chisels can not
in a short while remove all the marks
of the stonemason's crowbar which
has been busy there for a long while.
] say to all the young, if you would
have sympathetic face, hopeful face.
face cheerful face, kind
face, at the earliest possible mo-
ment, by the grace of God, have
planted in your soul sympathy, and
hope, and courage, and good cheer
and kindness. No man ever INDUCED
4 gracious feeling, or was moved bv =
righteous Indignation, or was stirred bv
4 benevolent impulse. but ITS effect was
more Or less indicated in the counte-