Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-09-23
SHAPING THOUGHTS.
TALwAcE OIscoURsEs ELOQUENT.
~ TO The YOUNG.


al Es~kiel, Noi a errmiah.
Trzr: a man that hath friends must
show himself friendly. Proverbs xviii. "a
About thr sacred and divine art Of making
and keeping lrleuhs / speak subject on
which never heard nl anyone preaching
and vet God Thought Il II enough impor-
tanre Co put 10 iu the middle IL the Bible.
these writings NJ solomon bounded On one
side by the popular Psalms Of David. and
On the other iy the writings Of Isaiah. the
greatest 81 the prophets. Ii seems all a
matter Of LaphaZard how many friends
We have. or whether we have any friends
az all. hut there is nothing occidental about
10 There j. a law which covers the accre-
t.au and dispersion Of friendships. They
lid not lust happen so' any more than
th" tides Just happen TO rise or fall, or the
sun Just happens t. rise or set. IL is
SCIENCE. an ant. a God given regulation.
Tell we how friendly YOU are to Others,
and / viii tell YOU now friendly others are
I, YOU. / de- not say YOU will not have
enemies; indeed, the best way to get ardent
friends is to have ardent enemies. if YOU
get their eEmity in doing the right thing.
Good men and women will always have
enemies, because their goodness is "A per-
Ietual rrhuke To evil; hut This antagonism
oi foes will make more intense the love of
your adherents. Your friends will gather
closer around you because Of the attacks of
Your assailaUts The more your enemies
abuse you the better your cOadiutors will
think of you.
The best friends we have ever had ap-
pearcd at some juncture when We were
especially bOmbarded There have been
times in my life when unjust assault multi
piled my friends as near as | could calcu-
late. about fifty minute. You are bound
to some people 10y many cords that neither
time nor eternity can break, and will war
rant that many Of those cords were twisted
by hands maleVolent. Human nature was
shipwreckeu about lifty-nine centuries ago
the captain of that craft. one Adam and
his first mate running the famous cargo
around on Il snag in the river Hiddekel
but there was at least one good trait of
human nature that wuded safely ashore
from that shipwrrck, and that is the dispo-
Sition to take the part of those unfairly
dealt with. When it i thoroughly demon
stratCd that some one i being prosecuted.
although at the start slanderouS tongues
were busy enough, defenders finally gather
around as thick as honey bees on a trellis
of bruised houevsuckle.
If, when set upon by the furIcs, YOU can
have grace enough to keep YOUR mouth
shut, and preserve your equipoiSe. AM let
others fight yOIr battles, you will find
yourself after awhile with whole Gordon
Ot allies. Had not the world given to
Christ upon His arrival mt Palestine very
cold shoulder. there would not have been
one-halfas many angels chanting glory out
OF the hymn books of the sky. bound in
black lids of midnight. Had il not been
for the heavy aud Jagged and tortuoue
Cross. Christ would not have been the al.
nirrd and loved Of more people than any
being who ever touched foot on eithei thu
Eastern or Western Hemisphere Instead
therefore. of giving up in despair because
YOU have enemies, rejoice in the fact that
they rally for YOU the most helpful and en-
thusiastic admirer. In other words. there
is no virlirncc that can hinder my text
from coming tru,. "A man that hath
friends must -hov himself friendly"
1t is my ambition to project especially
upon the young q Thought which may be-
nignly shape their destiny for the here aud
the hereafter. Before You show Yourself
friendly you must be friendly. do not
recommend a dramatiGnd grnjafitv. There
is such a thing rs pretending to be EN- rap
port with others, when we are their dire
destructants, and talk against them and
wish them calamity. Judas covered up
his treachery by resounding kiss. ana
careSses may be Economical Better the
NEUROLOGICAL Cerberus. the three-headed
dog of he'll. barking at US. than the wolf in
Sleeps clothing, its briudled hide covered
up by deceptive wool and its beautiful
| howl cadenced into an innocent bleatnG
| Disraeli writes of Lord Manfred who. after
committing many outrages upon the PEG.
| pie, seemed suddenly to become friendly
| and invited them to Il banquet Alter
| most of the courses had been served he
blew a horn, which was in those times Il
signal for the servants to bring on the de.
| sert but in this case it was the signal for
assassins to enter and Stay the guests His
| pretended triendliness was a cruel fraud
and there are now people whose smile Is q
| talsehoOd.
| Before you begin to show yourself
! friendly you must be friendly. Get your
| heart right with God and man, and this
| grace will become easy. You may by your
| own resolution get your nature into a
semblance Of this virtue, but tle grace OF
God can sublimeIy lift you into it. Sailing
| on the River Thames two vessels ran
| aground. The owners Of one got one hun
| dred horses, and pulled on the grounded
| ship. and pulled it to pieces. The owners
of the other grounded vessel waited
| till the tides came in. and easily foateG
the ship out of all trouble. SO we NAV
| pull and haul at our grOun led human ma,
| ture, and try to get it into better condi
ton: but there is nothing like the oceanic
tides of Gods uplifting grace. If. when
| under the fash Of the Holy Ghost we set
our own fOibles and defects and depravi.
ties we will be very lrntput and very
EASY with others. We will looI, into then
characters for things commentators. and
not damnatorv. If yOu W0uld rnb youi
own eve n little mere vigorously Won Womb
find n mote in it. the extraction of whirI
would keep YOU so busy YOU would not
have much time to shoulder your broad
axe and 90 forth t,, sniff mn thn hean, /,
your neirhbor's eve. In Il Christian spiri