The Baptist headlight. (Topeka, Kan.) 1893-1894, 1894-03-14

ers and Christian workers. Aye, the
most glorious being the world ever
saw was foreseen by Isaiah, who de-
scribed his face bruised and gashed
and scarified and said of him, Ibis
yisape was so married, more than any
man." So you see that the lovellest
face in the universe was Scared
face.
The Bright Side and the Dark.
And now I am going to tell you of
some of the chisels that work for the
designation or irradiation of the hui
man cOuntenance. One OF the sharpest
and most destructive of those chisels OF
the countenance is cynicism. That
sours the disposition and then sOurs the
face. It gives a cOntemptuOus curl to
the lip. 1t draws down the corners of
the mouth and initiates the nostril as
with a malodOr. What David said in
haste they say in their deliberation,
"AI men are liars" everything is go
ING 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 women or OF coats
| for men. They are opposed to the ad-
ministratiOn, municipal and state and
national Somehow food does not
taste as it used to, and they wonder
why there are no poets or orators or
preachers as when they were boys.
| 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-tirst chapter OF
| n Thn nd q 1TfIl
woman?" If he had behaved himself
better and kept in good associations,
he would not have written that inter-
rogation point implying the scarcity of
good womanhood. Cynicism, if a
habit as it is with tens of thousands of
people, writes itself all over the fea-
lures: 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 a depressed
and fore boding opinion of everything
take possession of you for twenty years,
and YOU will be a sight to behold. 1t
is the chastisement of God that when
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 the Christian cheerfulness try
it's chisel upon mans cOuntenance,
Feeling that ali things are for his
good, and that God rules, and that the
Bible being true the worlds tiorallza-
ton is rapidly approaching, and the
day when beer mug and demljOhn and
distillery and bombshen and rifle pit
and seventy-fOur Founders and roulette
tables and corrupt book 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 cheek 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 sculptur-
ing of God 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 your
father or your mother or look like no
one under the heavens, to God and man
you are beautiful.
Michael Angelo, the sculptor, visiting
Florence, some one showed him In
back ward piece of marble that was
so shapeless it seemed of no use, and
Angelo was asked if he could make
anything out of it. and if so was told
he could own it. The artist took the
marble, and for nine months shut him
self up to work, first trying to make OF
it statue of David with his foot on
Goliath, 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 an.
other figure that is SO famous for al
time because of its expressiveness. A
critic came in and was asked by Angelo
for his criticism. and he said it was
beautiful, but the nose of the statu {
was not of right shape. Angelo picked
up from the floor some sand and tossed
it about the face of the statue, pre-
tending he was using his chisel to make
the improvement suggested by the
critic. ''What do you think of it now
said the artist. Wonderfully i'm
proved" said the critic. well. sale
the artist, Il have not changed it a
ALL" My friends, the grace of Coo
, comes to the heart of a man or woman
and then attempts Ic change a forbid
ding and prejudicial face into attrac
, tiveness. Perhaps the face is most un
promising for the Divine Sculptor
But having changed the heart it be
gins to work on the countenance will
! celestial chisel and into all the Inca
p ments of the face puts gladness ant
an expectation that changes it from
f glory to glory, and though earthl.
criticism may disapprove of this or tina
; in the appearance of the face Chris
:. saws of the newly created cOuntenanc'
: that which PLATE said of him, Behold
the man.
! Here is another mighty chisel 70
the cnl1ntpnAnca. ana Won may call j