The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-02-02

prevail. And you see il at a glance, as
plainly as though IL had been written
all over his face in rose color: This
is one of my princes. He is on the way
to coronation. 1 bless him now with
| all the benedictions that infiinity can
afford Look at him Admire him
Congratulate him."
On the other hand, IL n be cynical
about the character Of others and
| chiefly observant OF defects and glad
to find something wrong in charac-
ter, the fact is apt TO be demonstrates
in his looks. However regular his fea-
lures and though constructed accord
ing to the laws of kasper Lavater. his
! visage is sour. He may smile. but il
is a sour smile. There is a sneer in
the initiation Of the nostril- There is a
mean to the lip. There is a
bad look in the eye. The devil of sar-
casm and ~malevolence and suspicion
has taken possession Of him, and you
see IL 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, ], the demon of
the Dit, have soured his visage with
my curse. Look at him, He chose a
diet Of carrion. He gloated owe the
misdeeds of others. IT took all my in
fernal engineery TO make him wha he
is-'a. busybody in other mems mat
terS.'"
The slanderer almost always at
tempts to escape the scandal he is re-
sponsible for. When in 1741 o Yves
ley was preaching al Bristol and show
ing what reason ne had to trust in the
captain of His Salvation, a nearer
cried out: Who was your captain
when you hanged yourself? : AnOw
the man who saw you when you were
cut down John Wesley asked the au-
dience 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 ISLANDERS never
wants to ace his work.
GIFT OF EVIL TONGUES.
On the day Of Pentacost 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
lave the gift of evil tongues, and there
is no end to their Ubiquitous gable.
Every city, village and neighborhood
of the earth has had driven through it
these scavenger carts. When anything
is said to you ~defamatory Of the char
acter of others, initiate Joseph John
Quincy, of England, who, when a 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? Charity rejoiceth not in iniqufty."
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 weak
nesses or putting in great primer" or
paragon" type their frailtieS, but to
offer help, sympathy and rescue. That
is ChriStlike, and he who does so wins
the-applause of the high heavens. Just
look abroad for the people who have
made great mistakes and put a big
plaster of coincidence on their lacera-
tons. Such people are never sympa-
thized with, although they need an in
finity of solace. Domestic mistakes.
Social mistakes. Ecclesiastical mis-
takes. Political mistakes. 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 medi-
cines and go there and ask them where
they are hurt and apply divine medi-
cament.
There is a public man who has made
a political mistake from which he will
never ecover. AT the next elections he
will be put back and put down into a
place of disapproval which he, will
never rise. Just go to that man n I'M
roll the the scroll of 100 splendid Amer
leans who, after occupying high places
of promotion, were relegated ito pri-
rate life and public scorn. Show him in
what glorious company he has been
placed by the anathema of the ballot
box.
There is a man or woman who has
made conjugal mistake and a vulture
has been put into the same cage with
a love or a lion 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 mer-
chant who bought at the wrong time
or a manufacturer whose old machin-
cry has been superseded by a new in
vention or who under change of tariff
OF certain styles Of fabric has been
dropped from affluence into bankrupt
cy. Go to him n recall the names Of
fifty business men who lost all but
their honesty and God Ink heaven Let
them know there are hundreds Of good
men who have gone under that are
thought of in heavenly spheres more
thar many who are high UP and going
higher.
Go to that literary man who is starry
ing with a brilliant pen in his right
hand, his literary position lost, his
books unstable. and tell him of the
mightiest of the past and the present
who suffered from non-appreciation.
Show the discouraged author whose
manuscript the publishing house will
not take that among the rejected
manuscripts Of the publishing houses
for a while were Paradise Lost and
Jane Eyre and Thackeray's Van
ity Fair" and "Vestiges of Creation"
and Uncle Toms Cabin" and that
Shakespeare was comparatively un-
known in England until Germany ac-
claimed its appreciation of the great
est Of dramatists. Unroll before that
discouraged public man the cartoons
in the time of Andrew Jackson and
Abraham Lincoln and James G.. Blaine,
and show all the misinterpreted and
pursued the fact that they have ii no
worse than many who ave preceded
them and that in most cases 1T is jeai-
ousy at success that a caused the as
sault.
DIVINE MEDICINE.
Hear it, The more you go to busying
yourselves in other mems matters the
better if you have design of Offering
relief. Search out the quarrels, that
you may settle them; the fallen, that
you may lift them; the pangs. that