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

were really 80 DaOIy on, ne would have
said something about it," We are all,
especially those of nervous tempera-
ment, susceptible to kind words and
discouraging words. Form conspiracy
against us, and let ten men meet us at
certain points on our way over to bust
ness and let each one say, "How sick
you look!" though we should start out
we'll, after4neeting the first and hear.
Ing his depressing salute, we would be-
gin to examine our symptoms. After
meeting the second gloomy acoosting,
we would conclude we did not feel
quite as we'll as usual. After meeting
the third, our sensations would be
dreadful and after meeting the fourth
unless we suspected conspiracy, we
would go home and go to bed, and the
other six pessimists would be useless
surplus Of Encouragement.
Brightness Not Gloom.
My dear sir, my dear madam, what
do you mean by going about this world
with Disbursements? Is not the sup
ply Of gloom and trouble and misfor-
tune enough to meet the demand with.
out your running factory of pins and
spikes? Why should you plant black
and blue In the world when God so sell
dom plants themi Plenty Of scarlet col.
ors, plenty Of yellow, plenty of green,
plenty of pink, but very seldom plant
black or blue. ! never saw black flow
er, and there's only here and there a
bluebell or violet, but the blue is for
the most part reserved for the sky, and
we have to look up to see that, and
when we look up no color can do us
harm. Why not plant along the paths
Of others the brightnesses instead Of the
glooms?
Do not prophesy misfortune. If you
must be prophet at all, be an Ezekiel
and not jeremiah. In ancient times
prophets who foretold evil were doing
right, for they were divinely directed,
but the prophets Of evil in our time are
generally false prophets. Some Of our
weatherwise people prophesied we
would have summer of unparalleled
heat. 1t has been q very comfortable
summer. Last fall all the weather
prophets agreed In saying we shonld
have winter Of extraordinary severity,
blizzard on the heels of blizzard. 1t
was the mildest winter ever remember
to have passed. Indeed, the autumn
and the spring almost showed winter
out of the procession. Real troubles
have no heralds running ahead Of their
somber chariots and no one has any
authority in our time to announce their
coming. Load yourself up with hope
full words and deeds. The hymn once
sung in our churches Is unfit to be
sung, for it says:
We should suspect some danger near
Where We possess delight.
In other words, manage to keep mis-
cradle all the time. The old song sung
at the pianos quarter Of a century ago
was right, "Kind words can never die. "
Such kind words have their nests in
kind hearts, and when they are Matched
out and take wing they circle round in
flights that never cease, and sportsman &
gun cannot shoot them, and storms can
not ruf1e their wings, and when they
cease fight in these lower skies Of
earth they sweep around amid the high
or attitudes Of heaven. At Baltimore
talked into photograph. The cylin'
der containing the words was sent or
to Washington, and the next day thai
cylinder from another photographic in
strument, when turned, gave back tt
me the very words I had uttered the
day before and with the came intona
tions. Scold into photograph, and il
will scold back. Pour mild words into
photograph. and it will return thu
gentleness. Society and the world ant
the church are monographs. Give then
acerbity and rough treatment, and acer
bity and rough treatment you will &c
back. Give them practical friendliness
and they will give back practical friend
illness. A father asked his little daugh
ter, MARY, why is 1t that everybod.
loves your" She answered, II don
know unless it is because I love every
body" IA man that hath friends mus
show himself friendly"
First Save MY Friend.
We want something like that spiri
Of sacrifice for others which was seel
in the English channel, where in tn
storm a boat containing three men wa
upset, and all three were in the waite
struggling for their lives. A boat cam
to their relief, and rope was throw
to one Of them, and he refused to tax
1t, saying: First fling it to Tom. Fl
is just ready to go down. l can las
some time longer" A man like that
be he sailor or landsman, be he III up
; per ranks Of society or lower ranks, will
always have plenty of friends. Wha
is true MAYNARD is true Godward. W
must be the friends of God ii we wan
> him to be our friend. We cannot trea
/ Christ badly all our lives and expeo
| him to treat us lovingly. was read
ing Of sea fight In which Lord Nelson
captured French officer, and when tn
French officer offered Lord Nelson hi
!, hand Nelson replied, First give M
i. your sword and then give me you
' hand" Surrender of our resistance t.
, God must precede Gods proffer of par
don to US. Repentance before forgive
= less. You must give up your Aebelliou
,, sword before you can get grasp Of tn
; Divine hand.
-. Oh, what a glorious state OF thing
to have the friendship Of God! Why
. we could afford to have all the worl
against us and all other worlds again'
Q us if we had God for US. He could in
. minute blot out this universe, and
d another minute make better universe
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