Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1900-02-08

to have been on the uplauds. have
caught you at last. You are ga busybody
| in other mems matters"
How is 1t that you can always nnl two
| opinions about any one and those two
| opinions exactly opposite? will tell yon
the reason. 1t is because there are two
| sides to every characteristic best side and
the worst side. A we'll disposed man chief
ly seeks the best side. The badly disposed
seeks chiefly tho worst side. Be ours the
desire to see the best side, for 1t ID health
Ter for US SO to do and stirs admiration,
which is I'm elevated state. while the de-
sire to find the worst side keeps one In IL
spirit Of dlsquietude and disgust and mean
suspicion.and that is pulling down Of oui
| own nature, disbursement OF our own
character. am afraid the imperfections
Of others will kill us yet.
The habit deplore is apt to show itself
In tho visage. A kindly man who wishes
everybody we'll soon demonstrates his dis
fracture all the laws OF handsome physiog-
nomy, but G ID puts into that mans eyes
and In the curve OF his nostrils and in the
upper and lower lip the signature of Di.
vine approval. And you see it ut a glance,
as plainly rs though it had been written nil
over his face in rose color: ''.This Is one Of
My princes. He is on the way to corona
tion. bless him now with all the bene.
dictions that infinity can afford. Look at
him. Admire him. Congratulate him.
|
of looking abroad upon others, not for the
purpose Of bringing them to disadvantage
or advertising their weaknesses or putting
in "grent primer or paragon" type their
fraiities, but to offer help, sympathy and
rescue. That is Christlik ,, and he who
does so wins tho 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-
tions. Such people are never sympathized
with although they need an iniuity OF So
lace. Domestic mistakes. Social mis-
takes. Ecclesiastical mistakes. Political
mistakes.
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 into place of dis
approval from which he will never rise.
Just go to that man and unrol the scroll
Of 100 splendid Americans who, after occu-
pying high places Of prom otion, were rele-
gated to private life and public scorn.
Show him In what glorious company he
has been placed by the anathema or the
ballot box.
There is q man or woman who has made
n njugal mistake, and u vulture has been
put into the same cage with a dove or n
lion and a lamb III the same jungle. The
world laughs at the misfortune, but it IL
your business to weep with their woe.
There Is q merchant who bought at the
machinery has been superseded by q new
invention or who under change of tariff on
certain styles of fabric has been dropped
from affiuence into bankruptcy. Go to him
and recall the names OF fifty business men
who lost all but their honesty and God and
heaven. Let them know there arc 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 acknowledge that good
4 ST. tnl -.
business, was more to he admired than
William Tweed in possession Of his stolen
millions.
Hear 1t! The more you go to busyinG
yourselves in other mems 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 lift
them: the pangs, that you may assuage
them. Arm yourself with two bottles OF
Divine medicine, the one 4 tonic aud the
other IN anmsthetic, the latter to soothe
and quiet, the former to stimulate, to in
spire to sublime action. That mans mat
terS need looking after In this respect
There are 10000 men and women who need
your help and need it right away. They
do not sit down and cry. They make no
appeal for help, but within ten yards of
where you sit in church and within ten
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 20 to those who are inst
starting in their occupations or profess
sIons and give them a boost. Those old
physicians do not want your help. for thew
nre 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 heir,
from Won for thew tnke retainers only from
the mora n -osnerous clients. but cheer those
Young attorneys who have NOT had
n brief at ali lucrative. Those old
merchants have their business so
we'll established that thew feel inde-
pendent of banks, OF ali changes in
tarifYs of a,l nan;cs bmt cheer those
vonnc mnrchanfs who nra making their
i,rst mistakes in bargain md sale That
old farmer who has 900 acres in hest tillnVe
and his harms fulI OF baryested crops and
the grain merchant hnvinD boneht his
wbsat Mt high prices before IT was renped
needs no svmpathv from Won Int cheer
mn TINT vonnr farmer whose acres are
cavered with n BIG mortpape md the