The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1894-02-28

night be kind and the effects of II will
be written in the language of your face.
That is the gospel OF physiognomy.
Anecdote OF Lincoln.
4 Bayonne merchant was in the south
of Europe for his health, and sitting on
the terrace one morning i'm his invalid
ism he saw a rider flung from a horse
into the river. and without thinking of
his own weakness the merchant flung off
his invalid's gown, leaped into the
stream and swan to the drowning man.
and clutching him as he was about to
go down the last time bore him In safe
" To the bank, when glancing into the
face Of the rescued man he cried: My
Cod / have saved my own SON.
All kindness comes back to us in one
way or another; If not i'm any other way
then In your own face. Kindnessi Show
it TO others. for the time may come when
YOU will need il yourself. People laughed
at the lion because he spared the mouse
that ran over him. when in one motion
of his paw the monster could have
crushed the insignificant disturber But
it was well that the lion had mercy on
the mouse, for one day the lion was
caught in trap and reared fearfully
because he was held fast by ropes. Then
the mouse gnawed off the ropes and let
the lion go free. You may consider
yourself a lion. but you cannot afford
TO despise a mouse.
When Abraham Lincoln pardoned a
young soldier at the request of his
mother, the mother went down the stairs
of the white house saying: ''They have
lied about the presidents being homely.
He is the handsomest man / ever saw"
All over that presidents rugged face was
written the kindness which he so well
illustrated when he said. ''Some of our
generals complain that ! impair discip-
line and subordination in the army by
my pardons and respites. but it makes
me rested after a hard days work if
can find some good excuse for saving a
mans life. and I go TO bed happier as
think how joyous the signing of my
name will make him and his family"
kindnessi II makes the face to shine
while life lasts, and after death il puts
a summer sunset between the still lips
and the smoothed hair. that makes me
say sometimes at obsequies, "She seems
too beautiful TO bury
solemn HspOcrites.
But here comes another chisel, and its
name is hypocrisy. Christ, with one ter
rife stroke in his sermon on the mount.
described this character, when We fast,
be not as the hypocrites of "A sad counte-
nance, for they diSfigure their faces that
they may appear unto men TO fast.
Hypocrisy having taken possession of
the soul it Immediately appears in the
countenance. Hypocrites are always sol
cmn. They 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 their
breath and have such general doieful-
ness that they disgust young people with
religion.
We had one of them i'm one of my
churches. When he exhorted he always
deplored the low state of religion in
other people, and when he prayed it was
an attack of hySteria and he went into
a parOXism of obs and abs that seemed
TO demand resuscitation. He went on in
that way until we had TO eXpel him
from church for stealing the property
intrusted to him as administrator and
for other vices that | will not mention.
and he wrote me several letter not at
all complimentary form the west saying
that ne was daily praying for my ever
lasting destruction. \ man cannot have
hypocrisy in his heart without some
how showing il in his face. All intelli-
gent people who witness it know it is
nothing but a drama tiZatiOn.
Here comes another chisel. and that
belongs TO the old-fashioned religion. 1t
first takes possession Of the whole soul.
washing out its sins by the blood of the
Lamb and starting heaven right there
and then. This done deep down i'm the
heart religion SAYS: Now let me go up
face and set up some signal that l have
taken possession of this castle. 7 will
celebrate the victory by an illumination
that no ne can mistake. i have made
this man happy. and now I will make
him look happy. | will draw the cor
ners Of his mouth as far up as they were
drawn down. | will take the cOntepmtu-
Gus curl away from the lip and nostril.
] will make his eyes flash and his cheeks
glow al every mention of Christ and
heaven. I will make even the wrinkles
of his face look like burrows plowed
for the hartests of joy / viii make
what we call the crows feet around
his temples suggestive that the dove Of
peace has been alighting there" There
may be signs of trouble on that face
but trouble sanctified. There may be
scars of battle on that face. but they
will be scars of a campaign won.
The Mothers Face.
''Now." says some one. 81 know very
good people who have no such religion
In their faces" My friend. the reason
probably is that they were not converted
until late in life. Worldliness 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
years. Do not be surprised that Phidias
and GreenOugh. with their fine chsels
cannot in a short while remove all the
marks OF the stonenasons crowbar
which has been busy there for a long
while. ] say TO all the young, if YOU
would have sympathetic face. hopeful
face. courageous 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 a gracious feel
ing. or was moved by righteous indig-
nation. or was stirred by a benevolent
impulse. but it's effect was more or less
Indicated in the countenance. while
David noticed the physiognomic effect
Of bad disposition when he said, "A
wicked man hardeneth his face" and
jeremiah must have noticed il when
he said of the cruel. They have made
their faces harder than a rock"
Oh, the power of the human face,
warrant that YOU have known faces so
magnetic and impressive that though
they vanished long ago they still hold
you with a holy spell How long since
your child went? We'll" you say, eff
she had lived, she would have been ten
years old now or twenty or thirty
years" But does not that infant face
still have tender supremacy over your
entire nature? During many an even
tide does il not look at you? In your
dreams do you not see it? What a
sanctifyng. hallOwing influence it has
words of the poet. Better to have loved
and lost than never TO have loved at
ALL"
Or it may have been a sisters face.
Perhaps she was the invalid of the fam
ilv PerhapS she never went out except