Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1898-09-10

Is arrive you take me ont under the
shadow OF the great elms. You take me
down to the artificial lake, the spotted
trout floating in and out AMONG the
white pillars Of the pond lilies. You
take me to the stalls and kennels where
you keep your fine stock. and here are
The Durham cattle and the Gordon set
tiers, and the high stepping steeds, by
paving and neighing, the only language
they can speak, asking for harness or
saddle and a short turn down the road.
Then we go 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 cana
ries in the bay window answering the
robins In the tree tops. Thank you!
never enjoyed myself more in the same
length Of time. Now. why do we not
do so with the characters Of others, and
show the bloom and the music and the
bright fountains? No. We say "Come
along, and let me show you that mans
character. Here is a green scummed
frog pond, and there's filthy cellar,
and I guess under that hedge there must
be black snake. Come and let us for
an hour or two regale ourselves with the
nuisances.
Extol tho Virtues.
Oh, my friends, better cover up the
faults and extol the virtues, and this
habit once established Of universal
friendliness will become as easy as 1t Is
for syringa to food the air with
sweetness, as easy as it will be further
on in the season for quail to whistle
up from the grass. When we hear some
thing bad about somebody whom we
always supposed to be good, take out
your lead pencil and say: "Let me see!
Before accept that baleful story against
that mans character I will take off
from 1t 25 per cent for the habit Of ex-
aggeration which belongs to the man
who first told the story. Then will
take off 25 per cent for the additions
which the spirit Of gossip IN every COM
munity has put upon the original story.
Then I will take off % per cent from
the fact that the man may have been
put into circumstances Of overpowering
temptation. So have taken off rs per
cent. But have not heard his side Of
the story at all, and for that reason I
take off the remaining rs per cent. Eek
cuse me, sir, I don't believe word Of
it,"
But here comes in defective maxim,
80 often quoted, "Where there is so
much smoke there must be some fire. I"
Look at all the smoke for years around
Jenner, the introducer Of vaccination,
and the smoke around Columbus, the
discoverer, and the smoke around Mar
tin Luther, and Savonarola, and Galilei,
and Paul. and John. and tell me where
was the fire. That is one Of the satanic
arts to make smoke without fire. Sian
der, like the world, may be made out
of nothing. If the Christian, fair mind
ed, commonsensical spirit in regard to
others predominated 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
together2 Nothing but the grace Of God
can ever put rs into such q habit OF
mind and heart as that. The tendency
is in the opposite direction. This is the
way the world talks: I put my name on
the back Of q mans note, and I had to
nay 1t, and / will never again put my
name ON the back Of any mans note.
gave a beggar 10 cents, and five minutes
after saw him entering liquor store
to spend IT. will never again give 9
cent to a beggar. I helped that young
man start in business, and, 10, aftel
awhile he came and opened store al
most next door to me and stole my Gus
toners. Twill never again help q young
man to start in business. l trusted II
what my neighbor promised to do, ant
he broke his word, and the psalms
was right before he corrected himself
for "all men are liars" So men become
suspicious and saturnine and selfish
and at every additional wrong dom
them they put another layer on tn
wall Of their exclusiveness and anothe
bolt to the door that shuts them GU
from sympathy with the world. The.
get cheated out of $1,000, or misinter
preted, or disappointed, or betrayed
and higher goes the wall, and taste
goes another bolt. not realizing tina
while they lock others out they loci
themselves in, and some day they wax
mn to find themselves imprisoned in
dastardly habit No friends to others
others are no friends to them. There
an island half way between England
Scotland and Ireland, called the Isle 9
Man, and the seas dash against all side
of it, and am told there is no NOR
lovely place than that Isle of Man, bu
when man becomes insular in his dis
position and cuts himself off from tn
main land of the worlds sympathies b
ia despicable, and all around him is a
Atlantic ocean of selfishness. Behol
that Isle Of Man
Sermons In Healthy Hands.
Now, supposing that you have, by
divine regeneration, got right towar
God and humanity, and you start OF
to practice my text. "A man that hat
friends must show himself friendly.
Fulfill this by all forms Of appropria'
salutation. Have you noticed that tn
head is so poised that the easiest thin
on earth is to give nod of recognition
To swing the head from side to side'
when it is wagged in derision, ia vi
natural and unpleasant; to throw
back, invites vertigo, but to drop II
chin in greeting is accompanied wit
80 little exertion that all day long al
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