The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1894-03-02

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Feeling that all things are for hi
good, and that God rules. and that tn,
Bible being true the worlds foraliza
tion is rapidly approaching. and tbs
day when beer-mug, and demijohn
and distillery, and bomb-shell, ant
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 | look for in an audience. Those
countenances are sections of millennial
glory They are heaven impersonated.
They are the sculpturing of Gods
right hand They are hozannas in hui
man flesh They are hallelujahs
a-lighted They are Christ re-incar-
mated. 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
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 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" ... --.-s....
Here is another mighty chisel for the
coun;enance, and you may call it re-
vepge, hate, or malevolence. This spirit
having taken possession of the 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
thumbscrews, 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 diabolical 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 graees, 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 te-
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
a-hash, and mountains of transfgura-
ton and MONDAY in Heaven. Kind
ness! 1t is the most magnificent
sculptor that ever touched human
countenance 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"
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 dog. Be kind to your
cat. Morning, 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 sit
ting on the terrace one morning in his
invalidism, he saw rider flung from a
horse into the river, and, without
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 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
others, for the time may come when you
will need it yourself. 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 handsomest man 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
discipline and subordination in the
army by my pardons and respites, but
it makes me rested after a hard days
work if l can find some good excuse
for saving a mans life, and go to bed
happier as think how joyous the sign
ing of my name will make him and his
family"
But here comes another chisel, 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 disfigure
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 carry
several country graveyards in their
faces. They are fearful when there is