Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1894-03-03

Ill aHi1tdIHuCb du "A ltiBidutc, anu cttil
woman would like to have been made q
Josephine. We all want to be agree
| able. Our usefulness depends so much |
upon 1t that | consider it important and
Christian for every man and woman to
be as agreeable as possible. The SLOUGH,
the slovep, the man who does not care
| how he looks, all such people lack
equipment for usefulness A minister
who has to throw quid of tobacco out
Of his mouth before he begins to preach
or Christians with beard untrimmed,
! making them TO look like wild beasts
come odt OF the lair-yea, unkempt,
I uncombed. unwashed, disagreeable men
or women--are a hindrance to religion
more than recommendation.
A scATHING REJoINDER.
Now, my text suggests how we may,
independent OF features, make ourselves i
agreeable, A mans wisdom maketh |
mis- face to shine, aud the soul5less OF his |
face shall be sweetened. What say
may come too late for many. Their
{ountenance may by long years of hard |
ness have been frozen into stolidity, or
{ by long years of cruel beha vior they |
may have Herodized all the machinery |
of expression, or by long years Of avarice /
they may have been Shyloeked until |
their face is as hard as the precious I
metal they are boarding, but am in |
time to help multitudes If the Lord /
will. That iftSs possible to overcome .
disadvantages of physiognomy was in
this country nightly illustrated by one
whose life recently closed after having
served in the presidential cabinet at 4
Washington. By accident of fire in /
childhood his face had been more pite-
ously scared than any human visagef
that | ever saw. By hard study lie |,
arose from being poor boy to the very
height of the legal profession, and when /
an attorney general for the United \
States was needed he entered the presi- 4
dental cabinet. What triumph over
destroyed human countenance!
| do not wonder that when an oppos-
ing attorney in Philadelphia court
room cruelty referred to this personal
Disagreement Benjamin F. Brewster re-
piled in these words: when was a
babe, was beautiful blue eyed child.
er told me so, but / was one day play
ing with my sister when her clothes,
took fire. and | ran to her relief andl
saved her, but in doing SO my clothes
took fire, and the fire was not put ont 1
until my free was as black as the heart. |
of tho scoundrel who has just now ns-
ferred to my Disagreement. Hero;fsrz
'conquering physical disabilities That
scholarly regular features are not ne.rss-
sary for making powerful impre ssIeGs
witness Paul, who photographs hi1Haaf'
as IN bodily presence weak and
George Whitefeld, whose eyes -ver
struck with strabismus, and Aaassnde
q. Stephens, who sat with pale nd sid
face in invalid's chair while As, lhrilk d
The Am erican congress wsrIa his el O.
quence, and thousands of isx;.SJ preas h
ers aud Sabbath scho9a .ss cheers and
Christian workers. Ays, the most 81 ori-
GUS being the world asar saw was lore
seen by Isaiah, wht, des crS oed his face
bruised and gashessi and scarified and
said of him, H . xisage vas SO mar ed.
more than any lpan. So you see that
the loveliest taae IN tho universe Wis a
SCARED face.
THE BRIGHT SIDE AND THE DARK
And now an, going to tell you of
some OF the chise,s that work for the
dlsfiguratlor or radiation of the hui
man cosnef nance One Of the sharpest |
and NEST destructive of those cbisals of |
the oouSienance is cynicism. Chat
sours the disposition and then SONS; she
face. Lit gives IA cCGltemptuous css5 70
the, LIP 1t draw, down the CORNERS of
the meath and initiates the no, nsae ss
with 4 Ilalodor. What David ,sSa in
haste Thew say in their deliberatio n, LII
men are liars, everything is xoies: to
rain. All men and women ar bsd or
going to be. Society and tn church
are on the down grade. Tell tt EN- of an
act OF benevolepce. and they g " he gave
that to advertise himself y hey do not
like the present fashion of J ats for wo-
men or Of coats fol- saen. They are ep-
posed to the administration municipal
and state and national. 81 nst how food
does not taste as it usefi ts:. and they
wonder why there are n, ace Is CT ora
tors or preachers as When '3hey were
boys. Even Solomon t,p.s,of the wisest
and at enc time OF e al lii worst Of
men, tails into TIN Rssimn tic mood
and cries out in thetr eGty-fir st chapter
OF Proverbs, WHO an find a virtuous
woman?" Ii he hs 4 behave himself
better and kept i'll oei associ ations, he
would not have VIZ item that nterroga-
ton point implyiu g. the scarcii of good
womanaood. Cr nieism, if IL habit, as
1t IS with tens of thousands % people.
writes itself all over the feature s: hence
go ih@ny tor.r isagea all mp /. I'd down
the stgyss, all ap and dowii th church
'.id- 81 Norl6. One good way to make
/ the WoBs3 worse is TO say it is worse
Let depf esseth and foreec 1in; opinion
of everything fliae p )ssessi OH OF you for
30 years, and yea will be IA siglsi to be-
hold. 1t is the chasr ,e,nent of Grd that
when q man allow; his healt to be
cursed With cynicisIn his face becomes
glooslse,a ssod scowled and lachr gmosed
ana BLASTED with the sane mic night.
ANGELO s RUsE..
fsut Bet Christian cheerfulness try its
! ehisek upon a man 5 eountenance- Feel
ing that all things are for his God, and
/ that God rules. and that the 81 ole beng
| Tue the worlds 1ioralization rs rapidly
approaching, ind the day when beer,
mug and deUi John and disfillery and
bomf she'll and rife pit and "A pound
ers and uette tab es and corrupt book
and satanic printing press will have
quit work, the brightness that comes
+ from such anticipation nat only gives
zest to his work, nt shines in his eyes
4 and CLOVIS IN his cheek and kindles
/ morning in his entire eountenance.
K Those are the faces looS for in an au-
+ dience. Those countenaEcai are sections
of millennial glory. TheY are heaven
j impersonated. They sre the scnlptur-
4 ing of Gods right hand They are no
Gaunas in human flesh. They are halle
luiahs alighted. They are Christ rein
caYnGted. LIDO not care what YOUR fea-