The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1898-09-16

bneSe writings OF solomon, bounded
on one side by the popular Psalms of
David, and on the other by the writ
ings of Isaiah, the greatest of the
prophets. 1t seems all matter of hap
hazard how many friends we have, or
whether we have any friends at all,
but there is nothing accidental about
it, There is law which governs the
accretion and dispersion of friend
ships. They did not 'just happen so"
any more than the tides Just happen
TO rise or fall or the sun just happens
10 rise or set. 1t is science, an art,
God-given regulation.
Tell me how friendly you are to
Others and l will tell you how friend.
1y Others are to you. / do not say you
will not have enemies; indeed, the
hes : way to get ardent friends is to
have ardent enemies, if you get their
enmity in doing the right thing. Good
men and women will always have en-
emies, because their goodness is 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-
ants. The more your enemies abuse
you the better your CONDUCTORS will
think of you.
The best friends we have ever had
appeared at some juncture when we
were especially bombarded. There
have been times in my life when I'M
gust assault multiplied my friends, as
near as i could calculate, about 30 a
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 malevolent. Human
nature was shipwrecked about SO cen
turtles ago, the captain Of that craft,
one Adam, and his first mate running
the famous cargo aground on snag
in the river Hiddekel; but there was
ut least one good trait of human ma
ture that waded safely ashore from
that shipwreck, and that is the dispo-
sition to take the part of those I'M
fairly dealt with. When IL is thorough
ly demonstrated that some one is be-
ing prosecuted, although at the start
slanderous tongues were busy enough,
defenders finally gather around as
thick as honey bees on trellis of
bruised honeysuckle.
II, when set upon by the furies, you
can have grace enough to keep your
mouth shut, and preserve your equi-
poise, and let others fghtyou battles,
You will find yourself after awhile
with a whole Gordon of allies Had
not the world given TO Christ on his
arrival at Palestine very cold
shoulder, there would not have been
one-half as many angels chanting
glory out Of the hymnbooks of the
sky, bound in black lids of midnight
Had il not been for the heavy and
Jagged and tortuous cross, Christ
would not have been the admired and
loved of more people than any being
who ever touched foot on either the
eastern or western hemisphere. In
stead, therefore. of giving up in
despair because you have enemies, re-
joice in the fact that they rally for
you the most helpful and enthusiastic
admirers In other words, there is no
virulence that can hinder my text
from coming true: "A man that hath
friends must show himself friendly
Besides this, every day when you
start out, load yourself up with kind
thoughts, kind words, kind express
ions, and kind greetings. When a man
or woman does well, tell him so, tell
her so. II you meet some one who is
improved in health, and it is demon
strated in girth and color, say: How
we'll you lookw But If, on the other
hand, under the wear and tear of life,
he appears pale and exhausted, do not
Introduce sanitary subjects, or say any
thing at all about physical condition.
In the case of improved health, you
have by your words given another i'm
pulse toward the robust and the
jocund; while in the case of the
failing health you have arrested
the decline by your silence, by
which he concludes; IF were really
80 badly off he would have said some
thing aboutitp We are all, especially
those of nervous temperament, sus-
eeptible to kind words and discourage
ing words. Form conspiracy against
MS, and let ten men meet us at certain
points on our way over to business,
and let each one say, "How sick you
look" though we should start out
we'll, after meeting the first and hear
ing his depressing salute, we should
begin TO examine our symptoms After
meeting the second gloomy accosting,
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
surpluss of Encouragement
My dear sir, my dear madam, what
do you mean by going about this world
with Instantaneous Is not the
supply of gloom, and trouble, and mis-
sortune enough to meet the demand