West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-10-12

with a spirit Of opposition that en-
beavers to set humanity to some
other tune. And every time it fails,
because 1t Is attempt to turn back
the stream of tendency which has
God behind it, 1t must be so.
Even God cannot make sin blessed
You remember how Shakespeare
says in Henry V: a good leg will
fall; straight back will stoop; a
black beard will turn white; a fair
face will wither; full eye will wax
hallow, but good heart, Kate, is
the sun and moon, or rather, the
sun and not the moon, for it shines
brighter and never changes, but
keeps his course truly. Solomon
was prosperous in worldwide
reputation, and yet, though Solo
mon was so prosperous in a deep
sense, and certainly in his late
years, he was disastrously unpros-
porous. That stately and melan-
Choly figure; it is thus Dean Stan
ley paints him: There is an Ara
bian legend which tells how, in the
staff on which Solomon leaned,
there was worm secretly gnaw-
ing upon its centre Another Ara
bian legend, which runs thus: Sol
ONION entered the temple, robed
and crowned, and stood between
the pillars, leaning on his staff, with
his long snowy hair and beard
streaming over his kingly robe of
Syrion purple. And standing there,
God smote him suddenly, and he
died. But though dead. the pillars
supported him, and he stood there
still, and there was upon his staff
and ring, the pentaCle "a mystic,
SIX pointed figure. And because of
this mystic figure none dared ap-
proach him, though he was dead,
until at last little brown mouse
ran out up pillar and nibbled the
leather at the bottom of his staff,
and then the dead king fell fiat on
his face in the dust, and out of the
dust they plucked a golden crown.
And that was all that was left of
the great Solomon--so rich in some
ways, so pitiably poor in Others"
Not even the powerful and splen-
did Solomon could have the real
and inward prosperity of a good
heart, lapsing as he did himself,
nor can we without suffering loss.
We may illustrate this truth by the
river Arne, of Switzerland; when
swollen by the floods, drives back
the waters OF the Rhone into the
lake of Geneva. and the force is so
great some times as to make the
mill wheels revolve in a contrary
direction. Thus the selfish world
ings who are decrying the self
sacrificing attempts Of earnest souls
to bring in being in better con-
dition and the reign of the brother
hood are trying to turn the mill
wheels backward. They may sue
coed for time, but right must pre-
vail and in turn the great currents
of love, like those of the Rhone
will sweep onward and the law OF
love will triumph. Brotherly kind
ness is but practical application
of the Golden Rule. 1t is the
noblest and best traits found in any
good mans life. 1t speaks a Ian
guage Of its own. 1t can be utter
ed by the dumb and it can be I'm
derstood by the deaf It is the &C
tive power which tends to break
hard hearts and beud stubborn
wills. Such love should SO fill
our natures that every word and
action in us shall be tempered with
kindness The world admires it;
conscience approves it, and God
commands it. Kindness to the
aged, kindness to the young, to
each and to all. A spirit of kind
ness that enables us as great
body bound together by ties
Friendship, Charity and Benevo-
lence, to show TO the world that we
are standing before the right ideal.
Every man stands before some
thing which is his Judge The
child stands before the father.
not in single act. making a report
of what he has been doing Oil a
special day, but in the whole pos
ture of his life, almost as if he were
mirror IN whom be saw himself
he got at once a Judgment as to
what he was and suggestions as 20
what he ought to be. The poet
stands before nature. she is his
judge; a certain felt harmony or
diScnrd between his nature and her