Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-01-31
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| opinions about any one and those two
opinions exactly opposite? 1 will tell you
sides to every character-the best side and
the worst side. well disposed man chief
| ly seeks the best side. The badly disposed
seeks chiefly the worst side. Be ours the
desire to see the best side, for 1t is health
| Ter for US so to do and stirs admiration,
| which is an elevated state. while the de-
sire to find the worst side keeps one in a
spirit OF disquietude and disgust and mean
| suspicion, aud that is a pulling down of our
| own nature, u disfi surement of our own
character. 1 am afraid the imperfections
OF Others will kill us yet.
The habit deplore Is apt to show itself
| In the visage. A kindly man who wishes
| everybody well soon emonstrates his dis
position in his looks. His features may
fracture all the laws of hands ONE physiog-
nomy, but God puts into that mans eyes
and in the curve OF his nostrils aud in the
upper and lower lip the signature of Di-
vine approval. And you see it at a glance,
as plainly as though 1t had been written all
over his face in rose color: "This is one of
Ny princes. He Is on the way to corona
lion. | bless him now with all the bene-
tictions that infinity can afford. Look at
him. Admire him. Congratulate him."
But there is a worthy and Christian way
Of looking abroad upon others, not for the
purpose of bringing them to disadvantage
Or advertising their weaknesses or putting
In great primer" or paragon" type their
trailities, but to offer help, sympathy and
rescue. That is Christlike, and he who
1oes so wins the applause of the high
heavens. Just look abroad for the people
who have made great mistakes and put a
Dig plaster of coincidence on their lacera-
ions. Such people are never sympathiZed
with although they need an intinitv OF So
ace. Domestic mistakes. Social mis-
:akes. Ecclesiastical mistakes. Political
mistakes.
There is a public man who has made a
political mistake from which lie 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.
lust go to that man and unroll the scroll
1f 100 splendid Americans who, after occu-
oying high places Of promotion, were rele
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
con jugal mistake, and a vulture has been
put into the same cage with n dove or
ion and a lamb In the same jungle. The
world laughs at the misfortune, but it is
your business to weep with their woe.
There is a 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
rom affiuence into bankruptcy. Goto him
and recall the names of fifty business men
who lost all but their honesty and God aud
heaven. Let them know there are hun
1reds of good men who have gone under
hat are thought of in heavenly spheres
more than many who are high up and going
higher. All will acknowledge 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 It'll The more you go to busying
ourselves In other mems matters the bet
er IL you have design of offering relief.
search out the quarrels, that you may set
le them; the fallen, that you may lift
hem; the pangs, that you may assuage
hem. Arm yourself with two bottles of
Divine medicine, the one a tonic aud the
other an antesthetic, the latter to sooths
and quiet, the former to stimulate, to IN
'pire to sublime action. That mans mat
ers need looking after in this respect.
There are 10, 900 Iaen and women who need
your help and need it right away. They
10 not sit down ana cry. They ~ffftti ts-ifr1-
appeal for help, but with n ten yards of
where you sit in church and within ten
minutes walk of your home there are peo-
)le 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, 60 to those who are just
starting in their occupations or profess
,ionS and give them a boost. Those old
physicians do not want your help, for they
are surrounded with more patients than
hey can attend to, but cheer those Young
1octors who are counting ont their first
drops to patients who cannot afford to pay.
Those old attorneys at the law want no help
from yoi, for they take retainers only from
:he more prosperous clients, but cheer those
Yourg attorneys who have not had
t.f NJ oil l,a ct
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 making their
first mistakes in bargain and sale. That
and his barns full OF harvested crops and
the grain merchant having bOught his
wheat at high prices before it was reaped
needs no sympathy from you, but cheer
up that young farmer whose acres are
covered with Il big mortgage and the
drought strikes them the first year. That
builder with contracts made for the con-
struction OF half n 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 are to the invisible
multitudes l reach week by week, but yet
will never see in this world, but whom ex-
pect to meet at the har of God and hope to
see in the blessed heaven. The last word
that wight l.. Moody the great evan
gelist, said to me at Plaintiell Y. j. and
he repeated the message for me to Others
was, Never be tempted under any circum-
stances to give up your weekly pub
lication of sermons throughout the
world" That solemn charge | will
heed as long as | have strength to give
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take them. Oh, ye people back there in
the Sheffield mines of England, and ye in
the sheep pastures OF Australia, and ye
amid the pictured terraces of New Zealand,
and ye among the cinnamon and color in
famed groves of CeyIon, aud ye Armenians
weeping over the graves of murdered
households in Asia Minor, and ye amid
the idolatries OF Benares on the Oranges,
and ye dwelers the banks of the
Androscoggin, and the Alabama, and
the Mississippi, and the Oregon, and
the Shannon, and the Rhine and the
Tiber,. and the Danube, and the Nile,
and the Euphrates. and the Caspian and
the Yellow seas; ye 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 an! illumination and
safety and heaven, without money aud
without price, What Il gospel for all
lands, all zones, all agesl Cos rl OF sym
pathy! Gospel of hopel Gospel OF emnn-
cipation! Gospel OF sunlight! Go pei
of enthronementl Gospel of eternal
victoryl Take it all We people. until
your sins are all pardoned, ami your
sorrows all solaced, and your wrongs
all righted, and your dying pillow be
spread at the foot of "a ladder which.
though like the one that was let down to
Bethel, may be thronC Il with descending
and ascending immortals, shall neverthe-
less have room enough Tor YOU to climb
foot over foot, on rungs Of light till you
go clear up out of sight of all earthly
perturbation into the realm where ''the
wicked cease from troubling and the weary
are at rest"
The good mans life is like the spark
that is brightest at the close.
IdlenesS is a craven's goal Norman
of worth wants n he fre.. from ur.,rlr