San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-12

study OF the personally nude was nc
doubt abandoned, and there is where the
prudishness of that day got in In
work, teaching that it was immodest
! for beauty to discover itself 10 itself.
Human nature is pretty much the
same the world over So much is this
so that the art of this present has it's
professional beauties, and these not
confined to those, who in the schools
of art. pose as models for the paint
ers and sculptors of the present. So
ciety, the titled, the 400, has its pro-
| fessional beauties who in the love
and devotion they pay that beauty, in
their desire to have its perfect lines re-
cogniZed by the world, are not averse
to having their fair projections seen.
1t is not the province of the Light
preacher this morning to comment on
this desire of beauty to discover itself
to the artistic world, that is to all
that Is artistic in human conception
and judgment. This is only an illus
tration of the manner in which moral
beauty and deformity reveal and hide
themselves from the eye of others.
No man or woman is really averse to
being thought more beautiful in face
or person in mind or character than
they really are. There may be pre-
tense of disclaiming this or that vir-
tue or feature. but it is a pretence and
down deep where the satisfactions
live there will be real exultation over
the favorable verdict.
Not that these worthy people court
deception. Not at all. They readily
take the verdict of the other fellow
;rz Of an1 IFS
BITTERNESS. 1t is worthy of remark
that they do not accept its worseness.
The Light preacher takes it that the
members of his congregation are not
fools. simpletons. dunderheads. Be
lieving this he also believes that in all
that forms the essentials of your char
acters you know more of yourselves
than any one else can or does. That it
is this real knowledge of yourselves,
internally, that faces you away from
yourselves and will not let you see
yourselves as you really are. What is
true of you is true of the world of men
and women.
1t is the agreeable facts of life that
we study. The virtues that we possess
upon which we dwell. The Light
preacher does not consider this a
rime. 1t is not even reprehensible. 1T
is commendable. But it should not be
allowed to blind your eyes to the posi-
tive facts. The deformities that are
there, and that we so sense are there
that we will not face them, are NOT
out of existence on that account. To
face them may not be pleasant, but the
world is full of pleasant and unpleas-
ant things Just as Jack Sprat's meat
was of fat and lean, and they must
be both eaten together. You cannot
divide I'D as Jack and his wife did,
and give one all fat and the other
all lean.
What is asked is not that you should
make the deformitieS of your charac-
tiers your study, but that you should
recognize them sufficiently to under
stand that they are not manutactur-
ed by the other fellow. If you are
TOO cowardly or too timid, or too OPP
timistic or too much in love with
Yourself to face the mistakes, the cru
dities. the deformities of yourself, be
too much of man to lay them on the
other fellow. You are free agent, as
much as the other fellow, and have no
right TO add the burden of your I'M
nerfections to his. 1t is not this that
is the worst feature of the habit, but
that thereby you are faced away from
yourself and do not grow increasing
| iv TO understand your real self.
Manhood takes to itself RESPONSE
bility as it does a garment. 1t might
do for Adam, a day old creation, TO
lay the blame of his deformity on the
other fellow, but you who hear the
voice of the Light pulpit this morning
are older than that. Face the music.
Say to yourself, II did it," Scorn to
lay the blame of your undoing or
wrong doing on others. Be man.
Be a woman. Be your own man and
your own woman. Never put 1t in the
power of another to bind you hand
and foot. brain and heart, and lead
you as they will. Have the grit OF
personality. Have the manhood of
self direction. Have the courage OF
your actions In any strait look your
| self straight in the face and tell the
truth TO yourself The other fellow is
not in it.