Owingsville outlook. [volume] (Owingsville, Ky.) 1879-192?, 1898-09-15


others. and show the bloom and the
music and the bright fountain>P No.
We say: Come along AMI let me show
you that mans character Here is a
green-sciimmed frog pdnd, and there's
filthy cellar, and guess under that
hedge there must he blacksnake.
Come, and let us for an hour or two
regale ourselves with the nuisances."
oh, my friends, better cover tip the
faults and cxtol the virtues; and this
habit once established of universal
friendliness will become as easy as il
is for syringa to Hood the air with
sweetness. as easy as it will he further
on in the season for quail to whistle
up from the grass. When we hear
something bad about somebody whom
we always supposed to bc good, take
out your lead pencil and say: Let me
see! Before | accept that baleful
| story against that mans character
| will take off from il - per cent.
for the habit of exaggeration which
| belongs TO ihe man who first told the
story; then will take off rs rer cent
for the additions which the spirit of
1 =
upon the storyi then | will take off %
rer cent from the fact that the man
may have been put into circumstances
of overpowering temptation. so |
have taken off 40 per cent But have
not heard his side of the story Mt all.
and for that reason | take off the re-
naming 81 per cent. Excuse me, sir,
| don't believe a word of i'll"
But there comes In de fective max
i'm, SO Otter quotedi where there is
SO much smoke there mist he some
fire. Look at all the smoke for yea IS
\ around Jenner, the introducer of vac
cinhtioni and the smoke around CO.
lumbus, the discovereri and the smoke
around Martin Luther. and Savona-
rola, and Galilee, and Paul. and JOAN.
ami tell ME where was the fret That
is one of the satanic arts to make
smoke without fire. Sander like the
world, may be made out of nothing
IL the Christian, fair-minded, common
sensical spirit in regard to others pre-
dominated In the world we should
have the millennium in about six
weeks. for would not that be lamb
/
together? Nothing but the grace of
God can ever put US into such habit
of mind and heart as that. The ten
dcncy is in the opposite direction.
| This is the way the world talks:
| put my name on the back of a mans
note. and l had to pay it, and l will
never again put my name on the back
of any mans note. gave beggar 10
cents, and five minutes after | saw
him entering n liquor store to spend
IL. will never again give n cent to a
beggar. l helped that young man
start in business, and 10, after while
he came and opened a store almost next
door to me, and stole my customers l
will never again help young man to
start in business. trusted 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 men become
suspicious and saturnine and selfish,
and at every additional wrong done
them they put another layer on the
wall of their cxclusiveness. and an
other bolt TO the door that shuts them
out from sympathy with the world.
They get cheated ont OF a thousand
dollars, or misinterpreted, or disar-
pointed, or betrayed, and higher
goes the wall, and faster goes an
other bolt, not realizing that while
they Jock others out they lock them
selves in; and some day they wake up
| to find themselves imprisoned in a
dastardly habit, No friends to others.
others are no friends to them. There S
an island halfway between England,
Scotland and Ireland called the Isle of
Man, and the seas dash against all
lies of it, and l am told there is no
{ more lovely place than that Isle of
/ Man; but when man becomes insular
"a his disposition, and cuts himself of
from the main land of the worlds
/ sympathies, he is despicable, and all
around him is an Atlantic ocean OF
selfishness Behold that Isle of Man.
Now, supposinr that you have, by a
Divine regeneration, got right toward
God and humanity, and you start out
to practice my text. "A man that
hath friends must show himself friend
ly." Fulfill this by all forms of appro-
pirate salutation. Have you noticed
that the head Is so poised that the cas-
lest thing on earth is to give a nod of
recognition? To swing the head from
side to side, as when it is wagged in
derision, is unnatural and unpleasant;
to throw it back invites vertigo; but
to drop the chin in greeting is ac-
companied with SO little cxertion
1 hot oil da,- nd
you might practice it without the least
semblance of fatigue. So, also, the
structure of the hand indicates hand
shaking; the knuckles not made SO
that the fingers can turn out, but SO
made that the fingers can turn in, as
in clasping hands; and the thumb di-
vided from and set aloft from the fin
gers, so that while the fingers take
your neighbours hand on one side, the
thumb takes it OH the other. and
pressed together, all the facilities OF
the hand give emphasis to the saluta.
ton. 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 expires.
sions, and kind greetings. When a
man or woman does we'll, tell him so,
tell her so. 1t you meet some one who
is improved in health, and it is demon
strated in girth and color, say: How
we'll you look!' But if, on the other
hand, under the wear and tear
of life he appears pale and ex-
hausted, do not introduce sani.
tary 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 concludes: 'If / were
really SO badly off he would have said
something about it," We are all,
especially those of q nervous tenn
perment, susceptible to kind words
ard discouraging words. Form a
conspiracy against us and let ten
men met us at certain points on our
way over to business, and let each one