Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1898-09-15

Oh, my friends, better cover up Tho
faults and cxtol tho virtues and this habit
once established of universal fricndlincss
will become US easy as it Is for u syringa
TO flood the air with sweetness as easy as
it will be further on in tho season for u
quail to whistle up from the grass. When
we hear something bad about somebody
whom we always supposed to be good, take
out your lead pencil and say: Lot mo secl
Before | accept that baloful story against
that mans character | will take Off from
it % per cent for the habit of cxaggcration
which belongs to the man who first told
the story; then will take off % per cent
for tho additions which the spirit of gossip
in every community has put upon the
original story; then / will take off 20 per
cent from the fact that the man may have
been put into circumstances of ovcrpowCr
ing temptation. so l have taken Oft 7j
per cent. But l have not heard his side of
the story at all, and for that reason 1 take
off the remaining 20 per cent Excuse me,
sir, don't believe u word of it,"
But here comes in defective maxim, 50
often quoted, "Whcrc there is SO mech
smoke there must be some fire. " I.ouE at
all the smoke for years around Jonncr, tho
introducer of vaccination; and the smoke
around Columbus, the discovercr; and tho
smoke around Martin Luther and Savona-
rola and Galilcc and Paul and John and
tell me where was the fire! That is ono
Of the satanic arts, to make smoke without
fire. SANDER, like tho world may DO
made out of nothing. If the Christian,
fair minded, common scnsiCal spirit in re-
gard to others predominatcd in the world,
We should have the millennium in about
six weeks for would not that be lamb and
lion, COW and leopard, lying down togcth.
err Nothing but the grace of God can
ever put us into such habit of mind and
heart as that. The tendency is in the OPP
pusitc direction. This is the way tho
world talks: put my name on the back
of "a mans note, and l had to pay it, and
| will never again put my name on tho
back of any mans notc. | gave Il bcggar
10 cents, and five minutes after i saw him
entering liquor store to spend it; | will
never again give u cent To bogPar. |
helped that young man start i'm business,
and, 10, after awhile he came and opened
store almost next door to me and stole
my customers | will never again help u
young man 10 start in business. TRUSTED
in what my neighbor promised To do, and
he broke his word, and tho psalmist was
right before ho corrected himself, for "all
men are liars ." So men become suspi-
cious and s,turninc and selfish. and at cv-
cry additional wrong done them they nut
anC Their layer on the wall of their cXcu-
sivcncss and another bolt to tho door that
shuts them ont from sympathy with tho
world. They get cheated out of 81 coo or
misintcrprctc(S0r disappointed or betrayed,
and higher goes the wall and faster goes
another bolt, not realizing that while they
lock others out they lock themselves in,
and some day they wake up TO find them
selves imprisoned in dastardly habit.
No friends to Others others are no friends
to them. There's ar island half way be-
tween England, scotland and ireland call,
ed the Isle Of Man. and the seas dash
against all sides of it, and l am told there
Is no moro lovely place than that Isle of
Man, but when u man becomes insular in
his disposition and cuts himself off from
the mainland of the worlds sympathics,
he is despicablc, and all around him is an
Atlantic ocean of selnshncss. Behold that
Isle OF Man
The Poise of the Head.
Now, surprising that you have by n di.
vine regeneration got right toward God
'ii'A AA'''iii's, h'lN sou OAb w pa az
ticc my text. "A man that hath friends
must show himself friendly" Fulfill this
by all forms of appropriate salutation.
Have YOU noticed that the head is so poised
that the easiest thing on earth is to give n
nod of rccOgnition2 To swing the head
from side to side, as when it is wagged in
dcrision, is unnatural and unpleasant; to
throw it back invites vertigo, but to drop
hf, chin in, to ,,1
so little exertiQn that all day long and cv-
cry day you might practice it without The
least semblance of fatigue So, also, the
structure of the hand indicates hand shak-
ing; the knucklcs not made so that tho
fingers can turn out, but so made that the
fingers can turn in, as in clasping hands,
and the thumb divided from and set aloof
from the fingers, SO that while the fingers
take your ncighbor's hand on one side the
thumb takes 1t on the other, and, pressed
together, all the faculties of the hand give
emphasis to the salutation. Five sermons
in every healthy hand urge us to hand
shaking.
Besides this every day when you start
out load yourself up with kind thoughts,
kind words, lid expressions and kind
greetings, When man or woman does
well, tell him so, tell her so. If you meet
some one who is improved in health, and
it is demonstrated in girth and color, say,
GLOW well you look !" But if, on the 9TH
er hand, under the wear and tear of life he
appears pale and exhausted, DO not intro
duce sanitary subjects or say anything at
all about physical condition. In the case
0f improved health you have by your
words given another impulse toward the
robust and the jocund while in the case
of the failing health you have arrested the
decline by your silence, by which he con-
cludes, "If l were really so badly Off he
would have said something about it" We
are all, especially those Of nervous tenn
permanent, susceptible to kind words and
discouraging words. Form conspiracy
against u.s. and let ten men meet us at GER
tain points on our way over to business,
and let each one say, How sick you
look" though We should start out well,
nfte' meeting the first and hearing his de-
pressing salute we would begin to cX.
anime orT symptoms, After meeting the
second gloomy accosting we would con-
rludc we did not feel quito as well as
usual Mtcr meeting the third our sem
sations would be dreadful, and after meet
ing tho fourth, unless we suspected n con-
spiracy we would go home and go to bed
and the other six pessimists would be II
useless surplus OF Encouragement.
NV dear sir. my dear madam, what do
you mean by going about this world with
disheartenments? Is not tho supply OF
gloom and trouble and misfortune enough
to meet the demand without your running
factory of pins and spikesY Why should
you plant black and blue in the world
when God So seldom plants them? Plenty
of scarlet colo.s, plenty of yellow, plenty
of green, plenty of pink, but very seldom
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