The Greenville times. [volume] (Greenville, Miss.) 1868-1917, 1900-01-13

onstratcs his disposition in his looks.
His features may fracture all the laws
Of handsome physiognomy, but God
puts into that mans eyes and in the
curve of his nostril and in the upper
and lower lip the signature of Divine
approval. And you see it at glance,
as plainly as though it had been writ
ten all over his face in rose color:
"This is one of my princes. He is on
the way to the coronation. I bless him
now with all the benedictions that in
finity can afford. Look at him. Adj
mire him. Congratulate him."
On the other hand, If one be cynical
about the character of others and
chiefly observant of defects and glad
to find something wrong In character,
the fact is apt to be demonstrated in
his looks. However regular his fea-
lures, and though constructed accord
ing to the laws of Kaspar Lavater, his
visagc is sour. He may smile, but nj
is a sour smile. There is a sheer in
the initiation of the nostril. There is
mean curvature to the lip. There is
bad look in the eye. The devil of
sarcasm and malevolence and suspi-
sion has taken possession of him, and
you see it as plainly as though from
the hair line of the forehead to the
lowest point in the round of his chin
it were written: mine! Mine! I,
the demon of the pit, have soured his
visage with my curse. Look at him!
He chose n diet of carrion. He gloated
over the misdeeds of others. 1t took
all my internal engineery to make him
what he is-'a busybody in other mems
matters"
The slanderer almost always at
tempts to escape the scandal he is re-
sponsible for. When in 1741 John Wes-
ley was preaching at Bristol and show
ing what reason he had to trust in the
Captain of His Salvation nearer cried
out: "Who was your captain when
you hanged yourself? l know the man
who saw you when you were cut
down." John Wesley asked the audi
ence to make room and let the SLAM
derer come to the front, but when the
way was open the slanderer, instead
of coming forward, fled the room. The
author or distributor of ISLANDERS never
wants to face his work.
On the day of Pentecost there were
people endowed with what was called
the gift of tongues" and they spake
for God in many languages. But there
are people in our time who seem to
have the gift of evil tongues, and
there is no end to their Ubiquitous CAB
BILE. Every city, village and neighbour
hood of the earth has had driven
through it these scavenger carts.
When anything is said to you defam-
atory of the character of others, imi-
tate Joseph John Quincy, of England,
who, when bad report was brought
to him concerning anybody. asked:
"Dost thou know any good thing to
tell us concerning her? Since there is
nc good to relate, would it not be
kinder to be silent on the evil? Char
ity rejoiceth not in iniquity."
But there is a worthy and Christian
way of looking abroad upon others,
rot for the purpose of bringing them
to disadvantage or advertising their
weaknesses or putting in great prim-
err or paragon" type their frailties,
but to offer help, sympathy and res
cue. That is Christlike, and he who
does SO wins the applause of the high
heavens. Just look abroad for the peo-
pie who have made great mistakes and
put a big plaster of coincidence on
their decorations. Such people are
never sympathzed with, although
they need an infnity of solace. Do
nestle mistakes. Social mistakes. Ec-
clesiastical mistakes. Political mis-
takes. The world has for such only
jocosity and gesture of deportation.
There is an unoccupied field for you,
my brother. No one has been there.
Take your case of medicines and go
there and ask them where they are
hurt and apply divine medicament.
There is public man who has made
political mistake from which he will
never recover. At the next elections
he-will be put back and put down in
to a place of disapproval from which
he will never rise. just go to that
man and unroll the scroll of 100 SPLEEN
cid Americans who, after occupying
high places of promotion, were rele-
gated to private life and public scorn.
Show him in what glorious company
lie has been placed by the anathema
of the ballot box.
Go to that literary man who is starv-
ing with brilliant pen in his right
hand, his literary position lost, his
books unstable, and tell him of the
nightiest of the past and the pres
ent who suffered from nonapprccia-
ton. Show the discouraged author
whose manuscript the publishing
house will not take that among the
rejected manuscripts of the publishing
houses for awhile were Paradise
Lost" and Jane Eyre" and Thack-
eray's "Vanity Fair" and "Vestiges of
Creation" and uncle Toms Cabin"
and that Shakespeare was compare
lively unknown in England until Ger
many acclaimed it's appreciation of the
greatest of dramatists. Unroll before
that discouraged public man the car
toons in the time of Andrew Jackson
and Abraham Lincoln and James G.
Blaine, and show all the misinter-
preted and pursued the fact that they
have it no worse than many who have
preceded them and that in most cases
it is jealousy at success that has caused
the assault.
Hear it! The more you go to busy
ing yourselves with other mems mat
tiers the better, if you have design of
offering relief. Search out the quar-
rails thnt unl1 may SnttIa them. the