Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1900-01-26
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Inc DaDlt ueplOr6 Is app W ouo" ito0ih
in the visage. A kindly man who wishes
everybody we'll soon demonstrates his dis
position in his looks. His features may
fracture all the laws OF handsome physiog-
nomy, but G cd puts into that mans eyes
and In the curve of his nostrils and In the
upper and lower lip the signature OF d.
vine approval. Andyou see 1t at glance,
as plainly as though it had been written all
over his face In rose color: "This Is one OF
Ny princes He Is on the way to corona
tlon. bless him now with all the bene-
dictions that inanity can afford. LOOK at
him. Admire him. Congratulate him."
But there is worthy and Christian way
of looking abroad upon others, not for tho
purpose OF bringing them to disadvantage
or advertising their weaknesses or putting
In "great primer" or paragon" type their
frailities, but to offer help, sympathy and
rescue. That is Christlike, aud he who
does 50 wins the applause OF the high
heavens. Just look abroad for the people
who have made great mistakes and put
big plaster OF coincidence on their lacera.
lions. Such people are never sympathized
with although they need an iniinity OF So
lace. Domestic mistakes. Social mis-
takes. Ecclesiastical mistakes. Political
mistakes.
There is public man who has made a
political mistake from which he will never
recover. At the next elections lie will be
put back and put down into place OF dis
approval from which he will never rise.
Just 20 to that man and unroll the scroll
OF 100 splendid Americans who, after occu-
pying high places OF promotion, were rels-
gated to private life and public scorn.
Show him In what glorious company he
has been placed by the anathema OF the
ballot box.
There Is man or woman who has made
q coDjugal mistake, and q vulture has been
put into the same cage with dove or
llon and lamb IN the same jungle. The
world laughs at the misfortune, but 1t Is
your business to weep with their woe.
There is merchant who bought at the
wrong time or manufacturer whose Old
machinery has been superseded by new
invention or who under change OF tariff on
certain styles OF fabric has been dropped
from afluence into bankruptcy. Go to him
and recall the names OF fifty business men
who lost all but their honesty and God aud
heaven. Let them knew there are hun.
dreds OF good men who have gone under
that are thought OF in heavenly spheres
more than many who are high up and going
higher. All will acknow edge that good
and lovely Arthur Tappan, who failed In
business, was more to be admired than
William Tweed In possession OF his stolen
millions.
Hear 1t! The moro you 50 TO busyiuS
yourselves In other meu's matters the bet
ter if you have design OF Offering relief.
Search out the quarrels, that you may set
tie them; the fallen, that you may lit
them; the pangs, that you may assuage
them. Arm yourself with two bottles OF
Divine medicine, the one tonic aud the
other au anesthetic, tue latter TO socthe
md quie., the former to stimulate, to To-
sDire to sublime action. That mans mat
tiers need looking after in this respect.
There are 10, 900 men and women who need
your help and need 1t right away. They
40 not sit down and cry. They make no
appeal for help, but within ten yards OF
where you sit in church and withia tea
minutes walk OF your home there are peo-
pie in enough trouble to make them
Shrek out with agony il they had not re-
solved upon suppression.
If you are rightly interested In other
mems matters, go to those who are just
starting In their occupations or profess
sions and give them q boost. Those old
physicians do not want your help, for they
are surrounded with more patients than
they can attend to, but cheer those young
doctors who are counting out their first
drops to patients who cannot afford to pay.
Those old attorneys ut the law want no help
from YOU, for they take retainers only from
the m ore prosperous clieuts, but cheer those
young attorneys who have not had
brief at all lucrative. Those old
merchants have their business SO
we'll established that they feel inde-
pendent OF banks, OF all changes in
tariffs, OF all panics, but cheer those
young merchants who are making their
first mistakes In bargain and sale. That
old farmer who has 200 acres In best tillage
and his barns full OF harvested crops and
the grain merchant having bought his
wheat at high prices before 1t was reaped
needs no sympathy from you, but cheer
up that young farmer whose acres are
covered with big mortgage and the
drought strikes them the first year. That
builder with contracts made for the con.
struction OF half dozen houses and the
owners impatient for occupancy is not to
be pitied, but give your sympathy to that
mechanic in early acquaintance with ham,
mer and saw and bit and amid all the
limitations OF a journeyman.
And now my words arc to the invisible
multitudes I reach week by week, but yet
will never see in this world, but whom ex
pect to meet at the bar OF God and hope to
see In the blessed heaven. The last word
that D wight l.. Moody, the great evan
gelist, said to me at Plainfeld, N. j., and
he repeated the message for me to others,
was, "Never be tempted under any clrcum-
stances to give up your weekly pub
LEGATION of sermons throughout tho
world" That solemn charge l will
heed as long as / have strength to give
them and the newspaper types desire to
take them. Oh, ye people back there In
the Sheffield mines of England, and ye Ill
the sheep pastures OF Australia, and ye
amid the pictured terraces OF New Zealand,
and We among the cinnamon and color in
famed groves OF Ceylon, and we Armenians
weeping over the graves OF murdered
households in Asia Minor, and we amid
the idolatres of Benares on the Oranges,
and We jewellers on the banks OF tho
Androscoggin, and the Alabama, and
the Mississippi, and the Oregon, and
the Shannon, and the Rhine, and tho
Tiber. and the Danube, and the Nile.
and the Euphrates, and tho Caspian and
the Yellow seas; we of the four corners OF
the earth who have greeted me again and
again, accept this point blank offer OF
everything for nothing, OF everything OF
pardon and comfort and illumination and
without price," What n gospel for all
lands all zones, all agesl Gospel OF SYM
pathyl Gospel OF hope! Gospel Of eman-
Gospel Of sunlight Gospel
of enthronementl Gospel Of eternal
Take It all we people, until
your sins are all pardoned, and your
sorrows all solaced, and your wrongs
all righted, and your dying pillow be
spread Mt the foot OF n ladder which,
though like tho one that was lot down to
Bethel, may be throDged with descending
and ascending lmmortals, shall neverthe-
less have room enough for you to climb,
foot over foot, on rungs OF light till You
20 clear up out of sight OF all earthly
perturbation into the realm where "the
wicked cease from troubling and the weary
at rest