The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1894-03-09

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critic. We'll" said the artist, 81
have not changed it at all" My friends,
the grace of God comes to the heart
of a man or woman and then attempts
to change forbidding and prejudicial
face into attractiyeness. Perhaps the
face is most unpromising for the
Divine Sculptor. But having changed
the heart it begins to work on the
countenance with celestial chisel, and
into all the lineaments of the face puts
| a gladness and an expectation that
changes it from glory to glory. and
! though earthly criticism may disap-
prove of this or that in the appearance
of the face, Christ says of the newly
created countenance that which Plate
said of Him: Behold the manlF'
Here is another mighty chisel for
the countenance, and you may call III
revenge, or hate, or malevolenee. This
spirit having taken possession of the
heart in encamps seven devils under
the eyebrows. 1t puts cruelty into the
compression of the lips You can tell
from the mans look that he is pursu-
ing some one and trying to get even
with him. There are suggestions of
Nero, and Robespierre, and Diocletian,
and thum bscrews, and racks all up
and down the features. Internal ar
lists with murderers' daggers have
been cutting away at that visage. The
revengeful heart has built its perdition
in the revengeful countenance. Dis
figuration of dia bolic passion
But here comes another chise1 to
oh no the iS Il
ness. There came a moving day. and
into her soul moved the whole family
of Christian graces, with all the chill
dren and grandchildren, and the COM
mand comes from the heavens that
that woman's face shall be made to cor
respond with her superb soul. Her en-
tire face from ear to ear becomes the
canvas on which all the best artists in
Heaven begin to put their finest
strokes, and on the small compass of
that face are put pictures of sunrise
over the sea, and angels of mercy
going up and down ladders all
a-fash, and mountains of trans
fguration and MONDAY in Heaven.
Kindness! 1t is the most magnifi-
cent sculptor that ever touched human
cOuntenance. No one could wonder at
the unusual geniality in the face of
William Window, secretary of the
treasury of the United States after
seeing him at the New York banquet
just before he dropped dead, turning
his wine-glass upside down, saying:
81 may by doing this offend some, but
by not do it, might damage many"
Be kind to your friends BE kind to
your enemies. Be kind to the young.
Be kind to the old. Be kind to your
rulers. BE kind to your servants. Be
kind to your superiors. Be kind to
your interiors. BE kind to your horse.
BE kind to your cat Morning, noon
and night be Lind, and the effects of
it will be written in the language of
your face. That is the Gospel of phys
iOgnomy.
A Bayonne merchant was in the
south of Europe for his health, and
sitting on the terrace one morning in
his invalidism, he saw rider flung
from horse into the river, and with
out thinking of his own weakness, the
merchant flung off his invalid's gown
and 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 safely to the
bank, when CHANGING into the face of
the rescued man, he cried: My God!
l have saved my own son. All kind
ness comes back to us in one way or
another if not in any other way
then in your own face. Kindness!
Show it to others, for the time
may come when you will need it your
self. People laughed at the lion be-
cause he spared the mouse that ran
over him, when by 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 roared fearfully
because he was held fast by ropes.
Then the mouse gnawed off the ropes
and let the lion go free. You may con-
slider yourself a lion, but you can
not afford to despise a mouse
When Abraham Lincoln pardoned
young soldier at the re-
quest 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 l ever saw" All over
that presidents rugged face was writ
ten the kindness which he so well il
Illustrated when he said: Some of our
generals complain that impair disci-
pline and subordination in the army
by pardons and respites, but it
makes me rested after a hard days
work if / can find some good ex-
cuse for saving a mans life, and ! GO
to bed happier as think how joyous
the signing of my name will make him
and his family" Kindness! 1t makes
the face to shine while life lasts, and
after death puts n summer sunset be-
tween the stiIl lips and the smoothed
hair that makes me say sometimes at
obsequies: ''She seems too beautiful to
bury"
But here comes another chisei, and
its name is hypocrisy. Christ with one
terrific stroke in His Sermon on the
Mount described this character: when
We fast be not as the hypocrites, of
sad -countenance; for they disfgure
their faces that they may appear unto
men to fast" Hypocrisy having taken
possession Of the soul it Immediately
appears in the countenance. Hypo-
critics are always solemn. They car
ry several country graveyards 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 doleful-
ness that they disgust young people