Connecticut western news., 1894-03-01

tian graces, with all their children and grandchildren, and the command has come forth from the heavens that that | spond with her superb soLl. Her entire face from ear to ear becomes the canvas on which all the best artists ot heaven begin to put their finest strokes, and on | the small compass of that face are put | pictures of sunrise over the sea, and | angels of mercy going up and down lad | ders all atiash, ,Sd mountains ot trans | 6guration and monday in heaven. Kind nessl 1t is the most magnificent sculp- | tor that ever touched human counte- nance.
 No one could wonder at the unusual | geniality in the face of William Win | dom, secretary of the treasury of the | Unlted States, after seeing him at the | New York banquet just before he drop ped dead, turning his wineglass upside down, saying. 'I may by doing this of fend some, but by not doing it 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. | THE LION AND THE MOUSE.
 | A Bayonne merchant was in the south | of Europe for his health. and sitting on the terrace one morning in his invalid ism he saw rider flung from 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 l 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 sonv' All kindness comes back to us in one way or another; if not in any other way, then in your own face. Klnd- l nessi Show it to others, for the time | may come when you will need it your self. 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 insigni6- | cant disturber. But it was well that the lion had mercy on the mouse, for one day the lion was caught in a trap and roared fearfully because he was held fast by ropes. Then the mouse l gnawed off the ropes and let the lion go free. You may consider yourself lion, but you cannot afford to despise mouse.
 When Abraham Lincoln pardoned a young soldier at the request of his moth CT, the mother went down the stairs of the White House saying:' They have lied about the president 8 being home ly. He is the handsomest man I ever saw" All over that presidents rugged face was written the kindness which he so we'll illustrated when he sad, "Some of our generals complain that impair discipline and subordination in the army by my pardons and respites, but it makes me rested after hard day's work if 1 can find some good ex- cuse for saving mans life. and l go to bed happier as think how joyous the signing of my name will make him and his family.' Kindnessl It makes the face to shine while life lasts and aft CT death puts summer sunset between the still lips and the smoothed hair that makes me say sometimes at obsequies, "Shs seems too beautiful to bury" But here comes another chisel, and its na'Ie is hypocrisy. Christ with one terrific stroke in his sermon on the mount described this character, "When ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance, for they dis6gure their faces that they may appear unto men to fast" Hypocrisy having taken posses sion of the soul, it immediately appears in the countenance. Hypocrites are al ways solemn. They carry several coun- try graveyards in their faces. They are fearful when there is nothing to cry about, and in their prayers they catch for their breath and have such general dolefulness that they disgust young peo- pie with religion. We had one of them in one of my churches. When he ex- orted, he always deplored the low state of religion in other people, and when. he prayed it was an attack of hysteria, and he went into a paroxysm of chs and ahs that seemed to demand resuscitation. He went on in that way until we had to expel him from the church tor stealing the property intrusted to him as admin istrator and for other vices that I will not mention, and he wrote me several letters not at all complimentary from the west, saying that he was daily praying for my everlasting destruction. A man cannot have hypocrisy in his heart without somehow showing it in his face. All intelligent people who witness it know it is nothing but a dramatization.
 Here comes another chisel, and that belongs to the old fashioned religion. 1t first takes possession of the whole soul, washing out its sins by the blood of the Lamb and starting heaven right there and then. This done, deep down in the heart religions says: Now let me go up to the windows and front gate of the face and set up some signal that have taken possession of this castle. will celebrate the victory by an illumi- nation that no one can mistake. have made this man happy, and now l will make him look happy. will draw the corners of his mouth as far up as they were drawn down. will take the con- temrtuous curl away from the lip and nostril. will make his eyes flash and bis cheeks glow at every mention of Christ and heaven. I will make even the wrinkles of his face look like fur rows plowed tor the harvest of joy. will make what we call the crow s feet around his temples suggestive that the dove of peace has been alighting there" There may be signs of trouble on that face, but trouble sanctifed. There may be scars of battle on that face, but they will be scars of campaigns won