News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1894-03-01

/ do not wonder tnat when du CrpOo- |
ing attorney in Philadelphia Cc2rt-
room cruelty referred to this personal
disbursement Benjamin F. Brewster re-
nliad in these words; ''When ! was
babe. / was 4 beautiful blue eyed child.
I know this because my dear dead moth
or told me so, but l was one day play
ing with my sister when her clothes
took fire. and I ran to her relief and
saved her. but in doing so my clothes
took fire, and the fire was not put out |
until my free was as black as the heart
of the scoundrel who has just now re-
ferred to my Disagreement. Herolsm
conquering physical disabilities! That
scholarly regular features are not neces-
sarv for making powerful impression
witness Paul, who photographs himself
as in "bodily presence weak, and
George Whiteield, whose eyes were
struck with strabismus, and Alexander
Fl. Stephens, who sat with pale and SICK
face in invalid's chair while he thrilled
the American congress with his elo-
ouence, and thousands of invalid preach
ers and Sabbath school teachers ana
Christian workers. Aye, the most glor1-
GUS being the world ever saw was fore
seen BY Isaiah, who described his face
bruised and gashed and scarified and
said of him, His visage was SO marred,
more than any man. So you see that
the loveliest face in the universe was
SCARED face.
THE BRIGHT SIDE AND THE DARK.
And now 1 am going to tell you OF
some of the chisels that work for the
designation or irradiation of the hu-
man countenance. One of the sharpest
and most destructive of those chisels OF
| the countenance is cynicism. Ihat
sours the disposition and then sours the
face. 1t gives contemptuous curl TO
the lip. 1t draws down the corners OF
the mouth and initiates the nostril as
with a maIodor. What David said In
haste they say in their deliberation, "All
men are liars everything is 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 himself. They do not
like the present fashion Of hats for wo-
men or of coats for MN. They are op-
posed to the administration, municipal
and state and national Somehow food
does not taste as il used to. and rhey
wonder why there are no poets or ora
tors or preachers as when they were
| bows, Even Solomon, one OF the Wlsest
| and at one time one of the worst OF
men. falls into the pessimistic mood
and cries out in the twenty-frst chapter
of Proverbs, ''Who can find vlrtuous
woman?'' If he had behaved himself
better and kept in good associations, he
would not have written that interroga-
ton point implying the scarcity of good
womanhood. Cynicism, if habit, as
it is with tens of thousands OF people,
writes itself all over the features; hence
so many sour visages all up and down
the street, all up and down the church
| and the world. One good way to make
the world worse is to say it is worse
Let depressed and foreboding opinion
of everything take possession of you for
90 years. and you will be sight to be-
| hold. 1t is the chastisemept of God that
when a man allows his heart to be
cursed with cynicism his face becomes
gloomed and scowled and lachrymosed
and blasted with the same midnight.
Angeles RUSE.
But let Christian cheerfulness try its
chisel upon a mans countenance. Feel
ing that all things are for his good, and
that God rules, and that the Bible being
hue the worlds horaliZation is rapidly
spproaching, and the day when beer
mug and demijohn and distillery and
bombshell and rife pit and "a pound
ers 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 klndIes
morning in his entire countenance
Those are the faces look for in an au'
dience, Those countenances are sections
of millennial glory. They are heaven
impersonated. They are the sculptur'
ing of Gods right hand. They are no
sannas in human flesh. They are halle
luiahs alighted. They are Christ rein
carnated. do not care what your fea
lures are or whether you look like youl
father or your mother or look like no one
under the heavens, to God and man yor
are beautiful.
Michael Angelo, the sculptor, visiting
Florence, some one showed him IN
back yard piece of marble that was Sc
shapeless it seemed OF no use, and An
cello was asked if he could make any
thing out of it, and if so was told III
could own it. The artist took the mar
BILE, and for nine months shut himself
mp to work, first trying to make of 1t
statue of David with his foot on Go
Hath, but the marble was not quite long
enough at the base to make the pros
trate form of the giant, and SO the art
list fashioned the marble into anothe
figure that is so famous for all time be
cause of its expressiveness. A crltl
came in and was asked by Angelo TO
: his criticism, and he said it was beauti
full, but the nose of the statue was no
of right shape. Angelo picked up iron
the floor some sand and tossed 1t abou
the face of the statue, pretending b
was using his chisel to make the i'm
provement suggested by the critic
? "What do you think of it now?' sal
the artist. Wonderfully improved,
said the critic. "Well," said the artist
8 II have not changed it at all. NJ
4 friends, the grace of God comes to til
5 heart of man or woman and then a
s tempts to change forbidding and pr
q judicial face into attractiveness. Pc
i haps the face is most unpromising II
$ the Divine Sculptor. But havin
changed the heart it begins to work c
q the countenance with celestial chlse
!! and into all the lineaments of the fa'
y puts gladness and an expectation TIL
q changes it from glory to glory, ar
y though earthly criticism may disa
, prove of this or that in the appearan
IL of the face Christ says of the newly CT
n ated countenance that which PLATE sa
10 of him, Behold the mani"
10 Here is another mighty chisel for Il
ID countenance, and you may call it r
= venge or hate or malevolence. TIL
10 spirit having taken possession of Il
~ heart, it encamps seven devils under Il
a eyebrows. 1t puts cruelty into the cor
E. preston of the lips. You can tell fro
m the mans looks that he is pursuiI
I'd some one and trying to get even wi
to him. There are suggestions of Nero al
b, Robespierre and Diocletian and thum
10 sCIeWS anu IdCho dll up anu uO"h u
TX features. Internal artists with murde
er ers' daggers have been cutting away
ut that visage. The revengeful heart b
ch built its perdition in the revengef
d, countenance. Designation of diabol
It's passion
It. But here comes another chisel to sha
en- the countenance, and it is kindnes
On There came moving day, and into
eoul moved the whole family of Chr