Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1894-03-09

soufs the disposition and then sours the face
II gives contemptuous curl TO the lip.
draws down the corners Of the mouth an
initiates the nostril as with a malodor. Wha
David said in haste they saw in their deliber
alton, 'All men are liars" everything is 90
Ing TO ruin. All men and women are bad 0
are going 10 be. Society and the church ar
On the down grade. Tell them of an act O
benevoience, and they say he gave that t.
advertise himself. They do not like tn
present fashion of hats for women or of coat
Tor men. They are opposed to the admins
tratlon. municipal and State and National
somehow food does not taste as it used to
and they wonder why there are no poets ol
orators or preachers as when they were boys
Even Solomon, ono of the wisest anC
at one time one of the worst O
men, falls into the pessmistic mood anC
cries out in the twenty-first chapter of Pro
verbs. "WhC can find a virtuous womanY
If he had behaved himself better and kept in
good associations, he would not have writer
tuat Interrogation point implying the scarcity
OF good womanhood. Cynicism, if habit
hs 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 tho
world. One good way to make the world
worse is to say it is worse. Let a depressed
and foreboding opinion Of everything take
possession OF you for twenty years, and you
ment OF God that when man allows his
heart to be cursed with cynicism his face be-
comes gloomed and scowled and lachrymosed
and blasted with the same midnight
But let Christian cheerfulness try its chisel
upon mans cOuntenance, Feeling that all
things are for his good, and that God rules.
and that the Bible being true the world 9
foraization is rapidly approaching, and the
day When beer mug and demijohn and distil-
lery and bombshell and rife pit seventy-four
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 glOws in his
entire countenance. Those are the facts
look for in an audience. Those countenances
are sections Of millennial glory. They are
heaven impersonated. They are the sculp-
turing of Gods right hand. They are ho-
sannas in human flesh. They are halleluiahs
alighted. They are Christ reincarnated. I
do not care what your features are or whether
you look like your father or your mother or
look like no one under the heavens, to God
and man yon are beautiful.
Michael Angelo, the sculptor, visiting
Florence, some ono showed him in a back
yard piece of marble that was so shapeless
that 1t seemed of no use, and Angelo was
asked If he could make anything out OF it,
and if 50 was told he could own it. The
artist took the marble, and fer nine months
shut himself up to work, first l-ying to make
of it a statue Of David with his foot on Go
Hath, but the marble was not quite long
enough at the base to make the PROSTATE
form OF the giant. and so the artist fashioned
the marble into another figure that is SO ia.
nous for all time because OF its expressive
ness. A critic came in and was asked by
Angelo for his criticism. and he said it was
beautiful, but the nose of the statute was
not of right shape. Angelo picked up
floor
it about the face Of the statue pretend
ing he was using his chise TO make the
improvement suggested by the critic.
''What do you think of it now?' said the
artist. "Wonderfully improved" said the
critic. "Well," 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 a forbidding
and prejudicial face into attractiveness. Per
haps the face is most unpromising for the
Divine Sculptor. But having changed the
heart 1t begins to work On the countenance
with celestial chisel, and into all the Inca
ments of tho face puts a gladness and an ex-
pectation that changes it from glory to glory,
and though earthly criticism may disapprove
ofthis or that in the appearance of the face
Christ says of the newly created countenance
that which PLATE said of Him, "Behold the
man.
Here is another nightly chisel for the
hate or malevolence. This spirit having
taken posses sion of tho heart, it encampS
seven devils under the eyebrows. 1t puts
cruelty into the compression of the lips.
You can tell from the mans looks that he is
pursuing some one and trying to get even
with him. There are suggestions of Nero
and Robespierre and Diocletian and thumb
screws and racks all up and down the feat
ures. Internal artists with murderers' dag
gers have been cutting away at that visage.
The revengeful heart has built its perdition
in the revengeful countenance. Disagura-
ton of diabolic passion.
But here comes another chisel to shape the
and it is kindness. There
came moving day, and into her soul moved
the whole family of Christian graces, with
all their children and grandchildren, and the
command has come forth from the heavens
that that woman's face shall be made to cor
with her superb soul. Her entire
face from ear to ear becomes the canvas on
which all the best artists OF heaven begin to
put their finest strokes, and on the small
compass of that face are put pictures of sun
rise over the sea, and angels Of mercy going
up and down ladders all a1ash, and mount
aims OF transfg%ation and monday in
heaven. Kindness! 1t is the most magnif1-
cent sculptor that ever touched human
countenance.
No one could wonder at the unusual
geniality in the face of William Window, Sec
r6lary OF tue treasury OF tle Unll6u StaIeSy
after seeing him at the New York banquet
just before he dropped dead, turning his
wineglass upside down. saying, II may by
doing this offend some, but by not doing it l
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.
Ee kind to your superiors. Be kind to your
interiors. Be kind to your horse. Be kind
to your dog. Be kind to your cat. Morn
ing, noon and night be kind. and the effects
of it will be written in the language of your
face. That is the gospel Of physiognomy.
A Bayonne merchant was in the south OF
Europe for his health. and sitting on the ter
race one morning in his invalidism he saw
rider flung from a horse into a river, and
without thinking of his own weakness the
merchant flung off his invalid's gown and
swan to the drowning man. and clutching
him rs he was about to go down the last
time bore him in safety to the bank, when
glancing into the face Of the rescued man he
cried, My God, I have saved my own son ~
All kindness 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 yourself. People laughed at the lion
because he spared the mouse that ran over
him when by one motion Of his paw the mon
ster could have crushed the Insignificant dis
turber. But it was we'll that the lion hal
mercy on the mouse. for one day the lion was
caught in trap ana rOared feariully because
he was held fast by ropes. Then the mouse
knawed off the ropes and let the lion go free.
You may consider yourself Il lion, but yoI
cannot afford to despise a mouse.
When Abraham Lincoln pardoned 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 hand
soonest man ever saw All over that Presi-
dents rugged face was written the kindness
which he so we'll illustrated when he said,
"Some of our generals complain that l i'm
pair discipline and subordination in the
army by my pardons and respites, but it
makes me rested after hard days work if
can find some good excuse for saving mans
life, and go to bed happier as think how
joyous the signing of my name will make
him and his family" Kindness! It makes
the face shine while life lasts and after death
puts summer sunset between the still hips
and fha snoothed hair that makes me saw