The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1898-09-21

paving HuQ Eei5a.uS. VIZ os'IS t'-HSo,
are ther can speak, asking for harness
or orsaddic and 4 short turn down the road.
Then we 90 back to the house, and you
Get me in the right light, and show me
the kensettS and the Bierstadts on the
wall and take me into the music room
and show me the birdcages, the canaries
in the bay window answering the robins
in the tree tops. Thank you! | never
enjoyed myself more in th- same length
of time. Now, why do We not do so
with the characters of others, aud show
the bloom and the music and the bright
fountains?
Oh, my friends. better cover up the
faults aud extol the virtues, ana this
habit once established Of universal
frieudliuess will become as easy as 1t IS
for syringa to food the air with sweet
ness. as easy as it will be further on IN
the season fora quail to whistle up
from the grass. When We hear some
thing bad about somebody whom We al
ways supposed to be good. take out Your
lead pencil and say: Let ne see.
Before accept that baleful story against
that man character Will take OF from
it 25 per cent for the habit Of cxaggera-
ton which belongs TO the man who first
told the story then will take off %
per cent for the additions which the
spirit Of gossip in every community has
put upon the original story; then | will
take off p per cent from the fact that
the man may have been put into cir
cumstances Of overpowering temptation:
So | have taken off IS per cent. But |
have not heard his side of the story at
all, and for that reason l take off the
remaining % per cent, Excuse me, sir.
l don't believe word of it.
Now, supposing that you have by a
divine regeneration got right toward
God and humanity, and you start out
to practice my text. \ 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 recognition?
To swing the head from side to side, as
when it is wagged IN derision, is un-
natural and unpleasant; to throw 1t
back invites vertigo, but to drop the
chin in greeting is accompanied with
so little exertion that all day long and
every day you might practice 1t with
out the least semblance of fatigue. So,
also, the structure of the hand indi,
Gates hand shaking; the kuuckles not
made Sc that the 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 neighbor's hand on one side the
thumb takes it on the other, and,
pressed together, all the faculties 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 expressions,
and kind greetings. When man OF
woman does we'll, tell him so, tell hel
so. If you meet some one who IS I'm,
proved in health, and it is oemonstra:
ted in girth and color, say, 'kow wei
YOU look!w But if, on the other hand,
under the wear and tear Of life he ap'
pears pale and exhaused, do not intro
duce sanitary subject or say anything al
all about physical condition. In the
case of improved health you have by
your words given another impulse to,
ward the robust and the jocund, while
in the case of the failing health you
have arrested the decline by your sll:
ence, by which he concludes, If
were really so badly of, he would have
said something about it" We are all
especially those Of nervous tempera
ment, susceptible to kind words anc
discouraging words. Form conspira
cy against US, and let ten men meet u:
at certain points on our way over tt
business, and let each one say, How
sick 20 u look" though we shonld star
out well, after meeting the first ant
hearing his depressing salute we woulc
begin to examine our symptoms. Afte1
meeting the second gloomy accostlnE
we would conclude We did not feel quite
as well as usual After meeting the
third our sensations would be dreadful
and after meeting the fourth, unles:
we suspected conspiracy, we would g
home and go to bed, and the other siz
pessimists would be useless surplu:
Of discouragement.
We want something like that spirl
of sacrifice for others which was seen II
the English channel, where in tho
storm boat containing three men wa:
upset, and all three were in the wate'
struggling for their lives. A boat came
to their relief, and rope was thrown
to one of them, and ke refused to taxi
it, saying: First fling it to Tom. Ht
is just ready to go down. | can las
some time longer" A man like that
be he sailor or landsman, be he in up
per ranks Of society or lower ranks. vii
always have plenty of frienks. Wha
is true manward is true Godward. w
must be the friends of God if we wan
him to be our friend. We cannot trea
Chsist badly all our lives and expec
him to treat US lovingly. | was read
ing of sea fight in which Lord Nelson
captured French officer, and when tht
French officer offered Lord Nelson hi
hand, Nelson replied, First give MI
your sword, and then give me You
hand" Surrender Of our resistance tt
God must precede Gods proffer Of par
don to US. Repentance before forgive
ness. You must give up your rebel
lious sword before you can get grasl
Of the divine hand.
Oh, what glorious state Of things t.
have the friendship Of God! Why, w
could afford to have all the worlt
AGAINST us and all other worlds agains