The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-03-13

for would not that BE- lamb and lion. coz
and leopard lying down together Moth
ing but the grace Of God can ever put
u into such a habit Of mind and heart
az that The tendency il in the opposite
direction.
Walled In By s~is.hnss..
This II the way the world talks: I put
nay name on the back OF a mans note.
and / had TO pay IL. and will never again
put my name on yAe back OF any mans
note. ] gave a beggar 70 cents, and fiye
minutes after saw him entering liquor
store 20 spend Il. ! viii never again give
a cent 10 a beggar I helped that young
man start in business. and 10. after q
while be came and opened a store almost
next door 10 me. and stole my customers
| will nevcr again help young man start
in business. / trusted in what my neigh
Dor promised 90 do. and he broke MS
word, and the Psaimist was right before
he corrected himself. for all men are
liars so men become suspicious and
saturnine and selfish, and al every ad-
ditIOnal wrong done them they put an
other layer on the wall of their exclusive
ness. ana another bolt to the door that
shuts them out from sympathy with the
world They get cheated cut OF a inou-
sand dollars or misinterpreted, or disdp-
pointed. or betrayed, and higher goes the
wall. and faster goes another bolt, not
realizing that wbile they lock others out
they lock themselves in; and some day
they wake up TO find themselves imprison-
"a Ia a dastardly habit. No friends 10
others others are no friends TO tnem
There's an island haII way between Eng
land. Scotland. and ireland, called the
Isle OF Man, and the seas dash asalhst an al
sides OF IL, and / am told there Is no more
lovely place than that Isle OF Man; oct
when a man becomes insuiar IN his dls-
position, and cuts himself on from tne
mainland Of the world sSEnpathles, ne
b despicable. and all around him Is an
Atlantic Ocean of selfishness. Behold
.sNow. supDosing that you have. by
Divine regeneration, got right toward Goo
ana humanity. and you start out to prae-
tice my text A man that hath fIlends
mrst show himself friendly. Fulnll this
by all forms OF appropriate salutauon-
Discouraxemrnt Is Easy.
"rIave Won noticed that the head is so
poised that the easiest thing on earth is to
give a nod of recognition? To swing the
head from side TO side, as when it Il
vagged ir derision. is unnatural and ua-
pleasant; to throw it back, invites vertigo;
panIed with so little exertion that all day
long. and every day, you might practice IL
without the least semblanee of fatigue. So.
also. the structure of the hand indicates
Misunderstanding: the knuckles not made 80
that the fingers can turn out, but so made
that the fingers can turn in, as in clasping
hands; and the thumb divided from and
set aloof from the fingers, 50 that while
10 rpfUhhnf'G m
one side, the thumb takes il on the othe-,
ard. pressed together, all the faculties of
the hand give emphasis to the salutation.
Five sermons in every healthy hand urge
US to Misunderstanding.
Besides this, every day when you start
cut, load yourself up with kind thoughts.
kind words, kind expressions, and kind
q tings. Wien a man or woman does
well, tell him So tell her so. If you meet
some one who is improved in health, and
it is demonstrated in girth and color say:
How we'll you lookr 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 impulse to-
the case OF the failing health you have ar
rested the decline by your silence. by
which he concludes: If / were really so
badly off he would have said something
about it,. We are all, especially those of
a nervous temperament, susceptible 10
kind words and discoUraginR werds. Form
a conspiracy against US, and let ten men
meet US at certain points on our way over
TO business, and let each one say. How
sick you lOOkr though we should start
out well, after meeting the first and hear
ing mis- depressing salute. We would begin
TO examine our symptoms. After meeting
the second gloomy accCsting, we woald
conclude we did not feel quite as well as
usual. After meeting the third, our SEN
satiOns would be dreadful, and after
meeting the fourth, unless We suspected
a conspiracy. we would go home and go
TO bed. and the other six pessimists weuld
be useless surplus of discouragement
Do Not Prophesy Trouble.
my dear sir, my dear madam, what
10 you mean by going about his world
with disheartenments? Is not the supply
of gloom and trouble and misfortune
enough TO meet the demand without your
running a factory of pins and spikes?
Why should you plant black and blue in
the world when God so seldom plants
them? Plenty of scarlet colors. plenty of
yellow, plenty of green, plenty of pink,
but very seldom plant black or blue. l
never saw black flower, and there's
only here and there a blrebell 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 in
stead of the glOoms?
do not prophesy misfortune If you
must be a prophet at all. be an Ezekiel,
and not a 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 gener-
ally false prophets. Some of our weather.
wise people prOphesied that last summer
would be a season of unparalleled heat