Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1894-02-26

may come too late Tor many 1hell
eountenance may By long years OF hard
ness have been frozen into stoli0ity; OF
by long years of cruel behavior they
may have HerOdized all the machinery
/ of EXPRESSION: or by long years of ava
rice they may have been shyloeked IN
til their face is SIS hard as the precious
metal they are boarding; but am 10
time TO help multitudes IL the Lord will.
That it is possible TO overcome disao-
vantages OF physiOgnOmy was in this
country nightly illustrated by one
whose life recently closed after having
served To- the Presidential Cabinet at
Washington. BY accident OF fire in
childhood his face had been more pite-
ously SCARED than any human visage
thai I ever saw.
EY HARD STUDY
he rose from being a poor boy to the
very height OF the legal profession, and
when an attorney general for the
United States was needed he entered
the Presidential Cabinet What a
triumph over destroyed human coun-
Jenauce. l 90 not wonder that when
an opposing attorney in Philadelphia
courtroom cruelty referred 20 this per-
sonal disfguremen, Benz amin 4. Brew
star replied in these words: when /
was D babe I was beautiful blue-eyed
child. i know this because my dear
dead mother told me so; but I was one
day PLAYING with my sister, when her
clothes took IRE, and l ran 90 her re-
lief, and saved her, but in doing so my
was not put out until my face was
as black as the heart Of the scoundrel
who has Just now referred TO my
disbursement" Heroism cOnQuerlng
physical disabilities. That scholarly
regular features are not necessary for
making powerful expression, witness
Paul, who photographs himself as in
bodily ureseuca weak; and George
WhItefsId, whose eyes were struck
with strabismus: and Alexander IL.
Stephens, who sat with pale ard sick
fave in invalid's chair while be thrilled
the American Congress wish his elo-
0uence: and thousand Of invalid preach
ers, and Sabbath school teachers, and
Christian workers. Aye, the most glo-
rlous Being the world ever saw was for
seen by Isaiah who described his face
bruised. and gashed, and scarihed, and
said of him, Ellis visage was so marred
more than any man." So you see that
the love'.estiace Ia the universe was
SCARED face.
And now am going 20 tell you OF
some OF the chisels that work for the
disfguratiOn or irradiatioD of the hu'
man counteuauce. Que of the SharDest
and most destructive of those chisels Of
the couuteuance is Cynicism. That
sOURs THE DISPOSITION
and then sours the face. 1t gives a
coutamptu0us curl % the lip. 10 draws
down ths corners OF the mouth and In
fates the nostril as with malodor.
What David said 10 haste they say IN
their del 6eratiou: "All men are liars;
everything is going 20 ruin. All men
aud women are bad, or going 60 be.
Society and the church are on the down
grade. Tell them Of an act OF benevo-
lence. and they say be gave that 10 ad-
vertisa himself. They 60 notlike the
present fashion of mats for women, OF
of coats for men. They are opposed TO
the administration, municipal and
State. and National. Somehow, food
does not taste as it used TO aud they
wonder why there IS no poets, or ora
tors. or preachers as when they were
r1ys. Even. solomon, one of the wisest
and 90 one time, one the worst, OF men,
falls into the peSsimistic mood, and
cries ont in The twenty-dist chapter oil
Proverbs: .'Who can find virtuous wo'
man2" If be mad behaved himself bet
ter and kept In good associations, be
would nor have written that interroga'
ton point implying the scarcity oil
good womanhO0d. Cynicism, II a habit,
esit is with tens of thousands Of peo'
plc. writes itself all over the features;
hence. so many sour visages all up and
down The street, all up and down the
church aud the world One good way
TO make the world worse is 10 say 10 Is
worse. Let depressed and foreboding
opinion of everything take possession
of YOU for twenty years, and you Will
be q sight to behold. 1t is the chas-
tfsement of God, that when man
allows his heart 20 be cursed
with cyuiclsm his face becomes
rIoomed and scowled and ZACH
rymosed, and blasted with
THE SAME MIDNIGHT.
Bullet Christian cheerfuiness try it'
cbisel upon a mans c0untenance. Feel
t...tL,t ou tbfrgs are for his good, anC