The Globe-republican., 1894-03-02

OF hats for women, or of coats fc
men. They are opposed to the admin
istration. municipal and state, and ns
tionaL Somehow. food does not tast
as it used to, and they wonder VIII
there are no poets. no orators, or preach
ers as when they were boys Eve
Solomon, one of the wisest, and at on
time one of the worst, of men, falls into
pessimistic mood, and cries out in tn,
twenty-first chapter of Proverbs: "Wh,
can ind virtuous woman?' If he hat
behaved himself better and kept il
good associations he would not hav,
written that Interrogation point imply
ing the scarcity of good womaDhood.
But let Christian cheerfulness try its
chisel upon a mans countenance
Feeling that all things are for hi:
good, and that God rules, and that the
Bible being true the worlds floraliza
tion is rapidly approaching, and the
day when beer-mug, and demijohn,
and distillery, and bomb-shell, and
rifie-pit. and 74-pounders, and roulette
tables, and corrupt books, and satanic
printing press will have quit work. the
brightness that comes from such an.
| ticipation not only gives zest to his
work, but shines in his eyes and glows
| In his cheeks and kindles morning in
his entire countenance. Those are the
faces l look for in an audience. Those
countenances are sections of millennial
glory. They are heaven impersonated.
They are the sculpturing of Gods
hon L.,
man flesh. They are hallelujahs
a-lighted They are Christ re-incar-
mated. i do not care what your fea-
lures are or whether you look like your
father or your mother, or look like no
one under the heavens-to God and
man you are beautiful 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. Perhaps the
face is most unpromising for the Divine
Sculptor. But having changed the
heart it begins to work on the coun-
tenance with celestial chisel, into all
the lineaments of the face puts a glad
ness and an expectation that changes
it from glory to glory, and though
earthly criticism may disapprove of this
or that in the appearance of the face,
Christ says of the newly created coun-
tenance that which PLATE said of him:
Behold the man"
Here is another mighty chisel for the
and you may call it re-
venge. hate or malevolence This spirit
having taken possession of TIE heart it
encamps seven devils under the eye
brows. 1t puts cruelty into the COM
preston 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
and racks all up and down
the features Internal artists with
murderers' daggers have been cutting
away at the visage The revengeful
heart has built its perdition in the re-
vengeful countenance. Designation
of dia bolical passion!
But here comes another chisel to
shape the countenance, and it is kind
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 has come forth from the heavens |
that that woman's face shall be made |
to correspond with her superb soul. |
Her entire face from ear to ear be-
comes the canvas on which all the best |
artists of Heaven begin to put their |
finest strokes. and on the small COM
pass of that face are put pictures of |
sunrise over the sea, and angels of |
mercy going up and down ladders all |
ton and MONDAY in Heaven. Kind |
ness! 1t is the most magnificent |
sculptor that ever touched human |
No one could wonder at |
the unusual geniality of the face of |
William Window, secretary of the
treasury of the United States after see-
ing him at the New York banquet just
before he dropped dead, turning his
wine-glass upside down, saying: II
may by doing this offend some, but by
not doing it. l might damage many"
A Bayonne merch ant was in the
south of Europe for his health, and sit
ting on the terrace one morning in his
he saw a rider flung from a
horse into the river, and, without
of his own weakness, the
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 60 down the
last time, bore him in. safety to the
bank. when glancing into the face of
the rescued man, he cried: MY God!
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 kindnessl Show it to
for the time may come when you
will need it yourself. When Abraham
Lincoln pardoned a young soldier
at the request of his mother, the
mother went down the stairs of the
hite 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
written the kindness which he so well |
illustrated when he said: ''Some of
our generals complain that l impair