The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1898-09-12

for the additions which the spirit Of gossip
IN every community has put upon the
original story; then will take of 2b per
cent from the fact that the man may have
been put Into circumstances Of overpower-
ing temptation. So have taken of "
per cent Bat have not hard his side Of
the story at all, and for that reason take
of the remaining e5 per cent Excuse me,
sir, don't believe word Of 1t"
But here comes In defective maxim, so
often quoted, where there is SO much
smoke there must ba some fire." Look OF
all the smoke for years around Jenner, the
introduoer Of vaccination; and the smoke
around Columbus, the disooverer; and the
smoke around Martin Luther and Savona-
sola and Galilee and Paul and John and
tell me where was the frei That is one
Of the satanic arts to make smoke without
fire. Slander, like the world, may be
made out Of nothing. II the Christian,
| fair minded, common sensioal spirit in re-
gard to others predominnted 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 togeth-
| 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 op-
posite direction. This Is the way the
world talks: put my name on the back
Of q mans note, and had to pay 1t, and
will never again put my name on the
back Of any mans note. gave beggAr
10 cents, and five minutes after saw him
entering liquor store to spend It,; will
never again give cent to q beggar.
helped that young man start In business,
and, 10, after awhile he came and opened
store almost next door to me and stole
my oustomersl will never again helpa
young man to start In business. Itrusted
In what my neighbor promised to do, and
he broke his word. and the psalmist was
right before he corrected himself. for "all
men are liars" So mon become suspi-
oious and saturnine and selfish, and at ev-
cry additional wrong done them they put
another layer on the wall Of their exolu-
siveness and another bolt to the door that
shuts them out from sympathy with the
world. They get cheated ont Of 1000 or
lnisinterpreted or disappointed or betrayed,
and higher goes the wall and faster goes
another bolt, not realising 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 an island half way be-
tween England, Scotland and Ireland CALL
ed the Isle Of Man, and the seas dash |
against all sides Of 1t, and am told there !
Is no more lovely place than that Isle Of |
Man, but when Q man becomes insular In |
his disposition and outs himself off from
tho mainland Of the worlds sympathies,
be Is despicable, and all around him Is an
Atlantic ocean Of selfshness Behold that
Isle of Man.
The Poise of tho Head.
Now, supposing that you have by di.
vine regeneration got right toward God
and humanity, and you start out to prac-
tioe 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
nod Of recognitionP To swing the head
from side to side, as when 1t IL wagged In
derision, Is unnatural and unpleasant; to
throw it back invites vertigo, but to drop
the chin In greeting Ia accompanied with
so little exertion that all day long and ev-
cry day you might practice 1t without the
least semblance Of fatigue. So, also, the
structure of the hand indicates hand shak-
ing; the knuckles not made 80 that the
fingers can turn out, but 90 made that the
fingers can turn in, as in clasping hands,
and the thumb divided from and set aloof
from the fingers, 90 that while the fingers
take your neighbours hand on one side the
thumb takes 1t on the other. and, pressed
together, all the faculties Of the hand give
emphasis to tho 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, kind expressions and kind
greetings When man or woman does
we'll, tell him 60, tell her 90. II you meet
some one who IL improved in health, and
1t is demonstrated In girth and color, say,
"How well you lookl' But II, on the 9TH
or 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
Of 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 were really so badly of, he .
would have said something about it," We !
arc all, especially those Of a nervous tenn !
permanent, susceptible to kind words and .
words. Form q conspiracy
against us, and let ten men meet US at Ger
tain points on our way over to Business !
and let each ono say, How sick you
ook!" though we should start out we'll,
after meeting the first and hearing his de-
pressing salute we would begin to ex-
anime our symptoms. After meeting the c
second gloomy acoosting we would con- e
,lude we did not feel quite as well as !
Usual. After meeting the third our SEN :
'ations would be dreadful, and after meet !
ng the fourth, unless we suspected con- :
piracy, wo would go home and go to bed, >
md the other six pessimists would DO a
Useless surplus of encouragement.
My dear sir my dear madam, what do
ou mean by going about this world with !
Is not the supply Of n
loom and trouble and misfortune enough y
0 meet the demand without your running !.
factory Of pins and spikesp Why should y
on plant black and blue in the world =
then God so seldom plants themP Plenty -,
scarlet oolors, plenty Of yellow, plenty q
green, plenty Of pink, but very seldom :,
plant black or blue. Inever saw black r.
over, and there's only here and there a h
luebell or violet but the blue is for tho "
lost part reserved for the sky, and we II
ave to look up to see that, and when we a,
,ok up no color can do us harm. Why
OF plant along the paths Of others tho
rightnesses instead Of the gloomsP
Do not prophesy misfortune. If you =.
'ust be prophet at all, be an Ezekiel "
nd not a jeremiah. In ancient times ~ =.
rophets who foretold evil were doing
ght, for they were divinely directed. but A.,
,e prophets Of evil In our time are gener- W
ly false prophets. Some Of our weather. "
ise people prophesied we would have a NJ
lmmer of unparalleled heat. 1t has been ~ ~
very comfortable summer. Last fall all ~
10 weather prophets agreed in saying We n,
Iould have winter of extraordinary Sc. Vi
,rity, blizzard on the heels Of blizzard. ~
was the mildest winter ever remember Pc
have passed. Indeed the autumn and lu
10 spring almost showed winter out of tho aL
Real troubles have no hcralds On
inning ahead of their somber chariots, III
I'd no one has any authority In our time q.
announce their coming. Load yourself VI
} with hopeful words and deeds The VI