The Bolivar bulletin. (Bolivar, Tenn.) 1888-1946, 1900-01-26


IS an elevated state. while the desire
to find the worst side keeps one in a
spirit of disquietude and disgust and
mean suspicion, and that is a pulling
down of our own nature, a disfgure-
ment of our own character. l am
afraid the imperfections of others Will
kill us yet.
The habit l deplore is apt to show
itself in the visage. A kindly man
who wishes everyb body well soon DEM
onstrates 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. l bless him
now with all the benedictions that in
finity can afford. Look at him. Ad-
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
visage is sour. He may smile, but it
is a sour smile. There is a sneer 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-
cion 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! 1,
the demon of the pit, have soured his
visage with my curse. Look at him!
He chose a diet of carrion. He gloated
over the misdeeds of others. 1t took
all my internal engineery to make him
what he is-'a busybtAy 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 a hearer cried
out: ''Who was your captain when
you hanged yourself? | 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, fed the room. The
author or distributor of SANDERS 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 iniquitous CAB
BILE. Every city, village and neighbor-
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 Gurney, 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
no good to relate, would it not be
kinder to be silent on the evil? Char
ity rejoiceth not in iniquity."
But there is 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-
er" 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 sympathized with, although |
they need an infnity of solace. Do |
mestic mistakes. Social mistakes. Ec- |
clesiastical mistakes. Political mis-
takes. The world has for such only |
jocosity and gesture of deploration.
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
There is a public man who has made |
a political mistake from which he will |
never recover. At the next elections |
be 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 splen- |
cid Americans who, after occupying |
high places of promotion, were reIe- |
gated to private life and public scorn.
Show him in what glorious company
he has been placed by the anathema |
of the ballot box.
If you are rightly interested in 9TH
er mems matters, go to those who are
just starting in their occupations or
professions and give them a 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 at the law want
no help from you, for they take re-
ainers only from the more prosper
BUS clients, but cheer those young at
torneys who have not had a brief at
al lucrative. Those old merchants
have their business so well esta blished
that they feel independent of banks,
of all changes in tariffs, of all panics,
nut cheer those young merchants who
ire making their first mistakes in bar.
gain and sale. That old farmer who
has 200 acres in best tillage and his
barns full of harvested crops. and the
wheat at high prices before it was
-eaped, needs no sympathy from you.
1ut cheer up that young farmer whose