The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1894-03-08

have Herodized all the machinery of ex'
preston, or by long years Of avaric'
thoy may have been shylocked untl
theic face IS as hard as tho precious
metal they are boarding, bus am in
time to help multtudes if tho Lord will, ,
| That It is possible to overcome disad'
vantages of physIognomy was In this
country nightly illustrated 10y one whose
life recently closed after having served
in the presidential cabinet at Wishing
ton. BY accident Of fire in childhood
his face had been moro piteously SCARED
| tbnn any human visaGe that ever saw
BY bard study he rose from bcin" q poor
boy TO the very height Of legal protes
sion, and when an attorney general OF
tho United States was needed he catered
the presidential cabinet. what n trl'
umph over destroyed human counle-
nance!
| DO not wonder that when an oppos.
inw attorney III Philadelphia courtroom
cruelty referred to this personal d'sliG
urcmCnt Benjamin +. Brewster replied
IN these w0r Is: "WhCn | was n babe
was a beautiful blue eyed child. l know
this because my dear dead mother told
me so. But was one day playing with
NY sister when her clothes took fire,
and rnu 10 her relief and saved her
! hut in doing so my clothes took fire, aud
| the fire was not put out until my face
was IS black as the heart Of the scOuu.
,.rci who has Just no" referred TO my
Disagreement"
llvroism CoEQuerin@ physical dlsAbli,
,iGs. That scholarly, regular features
SIC rol necessary tor making powerful
'rrNi csNIOu, witness pA,U, who photo.
Graphs himself aa n "bOd,ly pres ence
wcak;n and George Whitctield, whose
| cNcs was struck with strabismus; aud
| Alexander II, stephens, who sal pale
auG SEX n inyalid's chair while he
thrilled TIC American congress with ms
| G., yucnco, and thousands of invalid
preachers aud Sabbath school teachers
and Christian workers. Aye, the most
-,0r,ous being the world ever saw was
,orcgcYp bv Isaiah, who described his
face bruised and gashcd and sacrificed,
and said OF HIM, "llis visage was 80
T&Irca more thun any man." So you
see lLaL the lovellest face in The universe
was Il Scared face.
And now / am going to tell you of
@5me OF The chisels that work for The dis
nruratiOu or irradlatiOn Of the human
"ounteDarce. One Of tho sharpcst and
most destructive Of those chisels of the
countcnanCe is cynicism. That aours
the disposition aud then sours the face.
II gives contemptuous curl to the lip.
1t draws down The corners Of The mouth
and initiates the nOstriIs as with a malO.
dor. What David said in haste they say
il their delberatiou, "All men are
liars" Every thing is going to ruin. All
men and women arc bad Or are going TO
30. Society and the church arc on the
GOWN grade, Tell them O! an act Of be.
ucTolcnCc. and they say he gave tIat to
advertise himself. They do not like ths
present fashion of hats for women or of
coats for men. They are opposed TO
.hc administration, municipal and state
and n;,lional. Somehow food does not
t">t >tc rs 1t used to, and they wonder why
there are no poets Or orators or preach.
ctS as when thoy were boys. ;.
Even Solomon, one of the wisest ant
a. one time one Of The worst Of men falls
INTO tho pessimistic mood and cries ou
in the twenty -tirst chapter OF Proverbs
"Who can find virtuous woman?" /
he had behaved himself ueLter, and KEEP
III good associations, he would not have
written that Interrogation point imply
!nG the scarcity OF good womanhood
Cyncism, if a habit, as it is with tens O
thousands OF people, writes itself all ov
or the features; hence 80 many sour Wis
ages all up and down the street, al II,
aud down the church and the world.
One good way To make the worlc
worse is TO say it is worse. Let de
| pressed and iorebodlng opinion of ever
| thing tako possession Of you for 20 year
and you will be q sight 10 behold. 1t
the chasLisement Of God that when
man allows his heart to be cursed wit
cynlcism his tacc becomes goOmed an
scowled and lachrymoscd and bastc
with the samc midnight.
But let Christian cheerfulness try il
clicGl upon n mans countenaucc. Fec
ing that all things arc Tor his good, an
| that God rules, and the Bible being tru
the worlds llOralization is rapidly al
preaching, and the day when beer mu
and dcmli Ohm and distillery and bomb
shell and rifle pit and n FOUNDERS san
roulette tables and corrupt book and 81
| tame printing press will have quit work
! tho brightness that comes from anticipa
ton not only gives Zest to his work, bu
shines in hie eyes and glows in his chez
and kindtcs morning in lis entire coun
icn"Ece. Those are the faces | look 70
III an audience. Those cOuntenancc
arc sections OF millennlal glory. The
are heaven impersona!cd. They arc th
| sculpturing Q! GODS right hand. The,
are no 'nnns in humNns flesh. They ar
halielulah8 a!ight2d. They aru Chris
r3mCNrnaten.
] d" not care what your features art
or whether yru look like your father o
your mother Or look like no one unde
the hcavcns-to God and man you ar,
beautiful. Mlcheal Angelo, the sculp
tor, visiting Florence, some one showct
him in back yard piece Of marble
that was so ehapcless 1t seemed Of NJ
use, and Anqelo was asked ifhe coul,
make anything oat Of it, and il so he
was told he could own it. The arts,
took the marble and for nine months
shut himself up to work, first trying To
mako OF 1t a statue Of DAVID, with his
loot on Goliath, but the marble was not
quite long enough at tho base to make
the PROSTATE form Of the giant, aud so
the artist fashioned ths marble into an.