The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1898-09-17

IL AuGAC - y INV NhANl k0NNha1 N0S
accretion aud dispersion of friend
shipA They did not 'just happen so"
any mere than the tides Just happen
70 rise or fall, or the sun just happens
. rise or set II is q science, an art a
GOd-given regulation.
Tell me how friendly you are to
others and l viii tell you how friend
ly others T to you / do not say you
will not have enemies; indeed, the
best way to get ardent friends is TO
have ardent enemies, if you get their
snmity in doing the rightthing. Good
men and women will always have en-
emieA because their goodness is q per-
petuAl rebuke to evil; but this antago-
nism Of foes will make more intense
the love of your adherentS Your
friends will gather closer around you
because Of the attacks of your assail-
anita The more your enemies abuse
you the better your cosdjutors will
think Of you.
The best friends we have ever had
appeared at some iuncture when we
were especially bombarded- There
have been times In my life when un-
just assault multiplied my friends, as
near as | could calculate, about 50 q
minute. You are bound TO some peo-
pie by many cords that neither time
nor eternity can break, and will war
rant that many Of those cords were
twisted by hands m~alevolent Human
nature was shipwrecked about 50 cen.
turtles ago, the captain Of that craft
q Adam, and his first mate running
the famous cargo aground on q snsg
In the river Hiddekel; but there was
at least one good trait Of human ma
ture that waded safely ashore from
that shlpwreck, and that IL the dispo.
sition to take the part Of those un'
fairly dealt with. When II is thorough
ly demonstrated that some one Is be
ing prosecuted, although at the start
s~lAnderous tongues were busy enough
defenders finally gather around as
thick a. honey bees on . trellis Of
bruised ho~neysuekle-
II, when set upon by the furies, yot
can have grace enough TO keep youi
mouth shut, and preserve your equi
poise, and let Others hght your battles
you will find yourself after awhil,
with . whole Gordon Of allies Hsf
not the world given TO Christ on hi
arrival at Palestine a very COLI
shoulder, there would not have beeI
one-half as many angels chanting
glory out OF the hymnbooks Of tb
sky, bound in black lids of midnight
Had 1t not been for the heavy an,
Jagged and tortuous cross, Chris
would not have been the admired an
loved Of more people than any beinI
who sver toushed foot on either tn
eastern or western hemisphere. In
stead, therefore, Of giving up i
despair because you have enemies n
ioice in the fact that they rally 70
you the most helpful and enthusiast
$ sdmirerA In other words, there is n
virulence that can hinder my ter
from coming true: "a man that hat
friends must show himself friendly.
Besides this, every day when 20
start out load yourself up with kin
thoughts, kind words, kind expires
ions and kind greetings. When & ma
or woman does well, tell him So. te
her So II you meet some one who
improved in health, and il Is demol
strated in girth and color. say: "Ho'
well you lookf But II, on the otht
hand. under the wear and tear OF If
he appears pale and exhausted, do nj
introduce sanitary subjects, or say an,
thing at all about physical condition
. 10 the case Of improved health, yo
have by your words given another IN
= pulse toward the robust and Il
jocund; while in the case Of Il
falling health you have arrest,
the decline by your silence, /
| which he concludes: IF / were real
so badly of he would have said som
thing aboutitH We are all, especial
those Of a nervous temperament 81
eeptible 70 kind words and discoura
ing words Form a conspiracy again
" us, and let ten men meet us at certa
points on u way over TO busine,
and let each one say, "How sick y,
lookw though we should start o
H. well, after meeting the first and hea
al Ing his depressing salute, we shou
begin 70 examine our symptoms Aft
meeting the second gloomy aecostin
we would conclude we did not fe
quite as well AZ usual. After meetii
the third our sensations would
dreadful, and after meeting the four,
unless we suspected a conspiracy, '
would 20 home and 90 TO bed, and 4
other six pessimists would be a usele
surplus Of encouragement
Ny dear cir. my dear madam, VIII
do you mean by going about this wor
with disheartenments9 Is not I
g supply Of gloom, and trouble, and m
u, fortune enough to meet the demR
without your running q factory
pins and spikes2 Why should y
plant black and blue In the woi
~ when God 70 seldom plants the
Plenty Of scarlet colorH, plenty Of y
low, plenty Of green, plenty OF piI
but very seldom a slant black or BIZ
never saw n black flower, and Their
49, only here aud there a bluebell or
violet; but the blue Is for the IN,
IN, part reserved for the sky, and we he
- TO look up to see that, and when
look up, no color can do US haF
Why not plant along the paths
others the brlghtneEses instead Of /
glooms?
ed Do not prophecy misfortune. II y
must be a prophet at all, be an Eek
gn and not a Jeremiah. In ancient tin
prophets who foretold evil were dol
OF right, for they were divinely direct
but the prophets Of evil In our ii
u.s. are generally false prophets Some
our weatberwiSe people prophesied
ca would have a summer Of unpar
leled heat IL has been a v,
~ comfortable summer. Last fall
the weather prophets agreed
nm saying we should have a win
Of extraordinary severity, blizz,
Is on the heels Of blizzard. II was
mildest winter l ever remember
81" Atss passed. Indeed, the autumn a
the spring almost showed winter
l7o Of the procession. Real troubles b.
no heralds running ahead Of til
somber chariots, and no Que has
thority in u time 10 announce III
coming. Load yourself up with no
no- full words aud deeds.
Before you begin TO show your
friendly you must be friendly.
your heart right with God and n
Ter aud this grace will become easy.