The Maryville times. (Maryville, Tenn.) 1884-1944, 1898-10-08

things commendatory, and not damna-
tory. If you would rub your own eye
little more vigorously you would find
mote in it, the extraction of which
keep you SO busy you would not have
much time to shoulder your broadax
and go forth to split up the beam in
your neighbours eye. In Christian
spirit keep on exploring the character
of those you meet, and am sure you
will find something in them fit for a
foundation of friendliness.
You invite me TO come to your coun-
tryseat and spend few days. Thank
yon! / arrive about noon of beauti-
ful day. What do you do? AS soon as
1 arrive you take me out under the
shadow or 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, ard here are the Durham cattle
and the Gordon settlers; and the high
stepping steeds, by paving and neigh
ing, the only language they can speak,
asking Cor 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 bird cages, the ca
naries 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 Inc
show you that mans character. Here
is green-scummed frog pond, and
there's filthy cellar, and guess I'M
der that hedge there must be black
snake. Come, and let us for an hour
or two regale ourselves with the nui-
sances."
Oh, my friends, better cover up the
faults and eXtol the virtues; and this
habit once established of universal
friendiless will become as easy as it
is for syringa to flood the air with
sweetness, as easy as it will be fur
Their on in the season for a quail to
whistle up from the grass. When we
hear something bad about somebody
whom we always supposed to be good,
| foly n,,f
Let me see! Before accept that bale
full story against that mans character
l will take off from it rs per cent. for
the habit OF exaggeration which be-
longs 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 community has put
upon the original story; then l will
take off rs per cent. from the fact that
the man may have been put into Cir
cumstances of overpowering tempta-
ton. So have taken off rs per cent
But / have not heard his side of the
story at all, and for that reason take
off the remaining 25 per cent. Excuse
me, sir, I don't believe word of It'll"
But there comes in defective max.
i'm, so often quoted: "Where there is
so much smoke there must be some
fire." Look at all the smoke for years
around Jenner, tie introducer ofvacci
nation; and the smoke around Column
bus, the discoverer; and the smoke
around Martin Luther, and Savonaro
la, and Galilee, and Paul, and John, anC
tell me where was the fire! That is one
of the arts to make smoke without fire
SANDER, like the world, may be made
out nothing.
Now, supposing that you have, by 9
divine regeneration, got right toward
God and humanity, and you start out
to practice my text. "A man that hath
friends must show himself friendly.
Fulfill this by all forms of appropriate
salutation. Have you noticed that the
head is so poised that the easiest thing
on earth is to give nod of recogni
ton? To swing the head from side te
side, as when it is wagged in derision
is unnatural and unpleasant; to throw
it back, invites vertigo; but to dror
the chin in greeting is accompanied
with SO :little exertion that all day
long, and every day, you might prac
tice it without the least semblance O.
fatigue. So, also, the structure of tn,
hand indicates Misunderstanding; tn,
knucltles not made so that the fingers
can turn out, but so made .that tn,
fingers can turn in, as in ,claspinl
hands; and the thumb divided from
and set aloft from the fingers, so tha
while the fingers take your neighbour
hand, on one side, the thumb takes il
on the other, and, pressed together, al
the facilities of the hand give emphasi
} to the salutation. Five sermons il
every healthy hand urge us to hand
shaking.
Besides this, every day when 20,
start out, load youself up with kint
thoughts, kind words, kind expires
sions, and kind greetings. When maj
or woman does well, tell him so, tel
her so. If you meet someone who i
improved in health, and it is demon
strated in girth and color, say: "Hov
; we'll you lpok!" But if, ON the othe
hahj, under the wear and tear of lif
he appears pale and exhausted, do no
introduce sanitary subjects or say any
thing at all about physical condition
In the case of improved health, yol
nave by your words given another i'm
pulse toward the robust and jpcund
while III the case of the failing healtl
Won have arrested the decline hH YOll