The Red Cloud chief., 1894-03-09

N's> W VII AAhANANOGtC II IHt 1.OFu Will
h 1t IL possible to overcome disadvan-
tages Of ~physiognomy was in this ountr
nightly illustrated by one whose life 70
Gently closed after having served in the
presidential cabinet at Washington. by
accident OF Are in childhood his face had
been more pteously SCARED than any hu-
man visage that | ever saw. BY hard study
he rose from being a poor boy to the very
height OF the legal profession, and when an
attorney general Of the United States was
needed he entered the presidential cabinet.
What a triumph over destroyed human
countenancel
l do act wonder that when an opposing
attorney In a Philadelphia courtroom cru
ely referred to this personal disfgurement
Benjamin +. Brewster replied in these
words. "When l was O babe, I was a beau.
tiful blue eyed child. know this because
my dear dead mother told me so. But |
was one day playing with my sister when
her clothes took fire, and I ran to her re.
lief and saved her, but in doing so my
clothes took fire, and the fire was not put
out until my face was a. black as the heart
Of the coundrel who has Just now referred
TO my Disagreement"
Her)ism conquering physical disabilities
That scholarly, regular features are not
necessary for making powerful impression
witness Paul, who photographs himself a.
In bodily presence weak and George
Wlitefeld, whose eyes were struck with
strabismus; and Alexander II. Stephens,
who sat pale and sick In invalid's chair
while he thrilled the American congress
with bis eloquencs, and Thousands Of invalid
preachers and Sabbath school teachers and
Christian workers. Aye, the most glorious
being the world ever saw was foreseen by
Isaiah, who described his face bruised and
gashed and scarifled, and said Of him, "His
visage was 30 marred more than any man"
30 you see that the loveliest face In the uni
verse was q SCARED face.
REBUKE OF PEssIMlsM.
And now l am going to tell you Of some
of the chisels that work for the disflgura-
ton or irradiation Of the human counte-
nance. One Of tho sharpest and most de.
structive Of those chisels Of the countenance
Is cynicism. That sours the disposition and
then sours the face. 1t gives Q contemptu-
u curl to the lip. It draws down the cor.
ners Of the mouth and initiates the nostrils
as with a malodor. What David said in
haste they say in their deliberation, "All
men are liars" Everything il going to ruin.
All men and women are bad or going to
be. Society and the church are on the down
grade. Tell them Of an act Of benevolence,
and they say he gave that to advertise him.
self. They do not like tho present fashion
Of hats for women or Of coats for men. They
are opposed to the administration, munich.
pal and state and national. Somehow food
does not taste az 1t used to, and they Won
der why there are NO poets or orators or
preachers as when they were boys.
Even Solomon, n Of the wisest and at
one time one Of the worst Of men, falls into
the pessimistic mood and cries out in the
twenty-first chapter Of Proverbs, "Who can
find a virtuous woman" II he had be-
haved himself better and kept In good asso.
Citations, he would not have written that in
terrogation point implying the scarcity Of
good womanhood. Cynicism, II q habit, as
IL IL with tens Of thousands Of people,
writes itself all over the features; hence 30
many sour visages all up and down the
street, all up aud down the church and the
world.
One good way to make the world worse ID
to say 1t is worse. Let depressed and fore.
boding opinion Of everything take posses.
sion Of you for 20 years, and you will be q
sight to behold. 1t Is the chastisement OF
God that when a man allows his heart to be-
cursed with cynicism his face becomes
gloomed and scowled and l~achrymosed and
blasted with the same midnight.
II CHANGE OF HEART.
But let Christian cheerfulness try Its
chisel upon q mans countenance. Feeling
that oil things are for his good, and that
God rules, and that the Bible being true
the worlds floralization Is rapidly approach.
ing, and the day when beer mug and demi-
John and distillery and bombshell and rife
pit and "a Founders and roulette tables and
corrupt 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
CLOVIS In his cheek and kindles a morning
In his entire c~ountenance. Those are the
faces I look for in an audience. Those
c~ountenances are sections Of millennial
glory. They IRE heaven impersonated.
They are the sculpturing Of Gods right
hand. They are h%osannas in human flesh.
They are halleluiahs alighted. They are
Christ reincarnated.
do not care what your features are OF
whether you look like your father or your
mother or look like nc one under the heav.
eps-to God and man you are beautiful
Michael Angelo, the sculptor, visiting Flor
ence, some one showed him In a back yard
q piece of marble that was 30 shapeless II
seemed of no use, and Angelo was asked II
he could make anything out of it. and II &C
he was told he could own 1t. The artist
took the marble and for nine months shut
himself up to work, first trying to make Of
IL a statue of David, with his foot on Go
liatb, but the marble was not quite Ions
enough at the base to make the PROSTATE
form Of the giant. and so the artist fashion
ed the marble into another figure that Il
famous for all time because of its express
iveness.
A critic came In and was asked by Angelo
for his criticism, and he said IL was beauti
full, but the nose Of the statue was not O,
right shape. Angelo picked up from tn,
floor some sand and tossed 1t about the fact
of the statue, pretending he was using hi
chisel to make the improvement suggested
by the critic. "What do you think Of Il
nowP" said the artist. "Wonderfully i'm
proved" said the critic. "Well," said tn,
artist, II have not changed II at all"
My friends, the grace Of God comes 10 tn,
heart of a nan or woman and then attempt,
to change a f%orbidding and prejudicial fac'
into attractiveness. Perhaps the face IL