The Penn's Grove record., 1900-01-26


spirit Of disduiettide and disgust and mean
suspicion, and that Is q pulling down Of our
own natures; d disbursement OF our own
character: ard afraid the impetfections
Of others Mill kill us yet.
The habit I deplore is apt to show itself
In the vlsage. A kindly man who wishes
everybody well soon demonstrates his dis
position In his looks. His features may
fracture all the laws OF handsome physiog-
nomy, but God puts into that mans eyes
and in the curve OF his nostriIs and In the
upper and lower lip the signature Of Di-
vine approval. And you see 1t at a glance,
g PLAINLY az though i had peer written a!
~ princes. He is on the way to corona
tom ! bless him now with all the bene.
dtctfons that inflnity can afford. Look at
him. Admire him. Congratulate him."
BID there Is g worthy and Christian way
OF looking. abroad upon others, not for the
purpose Of bringing them to disadvantage
or advertising their weaknesses or putting
"a great primer or paragon type their
frailities, but to offer help, sympathy and
tescue. That Is Ghristllks, 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 q
big plaster OF coincidence IN their lacera-
ti0nss 6nch people are never sy~mpathized
with although they need an infnity OF So
1HSUs O0ukoSek0 MkSIOk3Ss 0OCl6l mus
takes. Ecclesiastical mistakes. Political
mistakes.
There Is q public man who has made a
political mistake from which he will never
recover. At the mex elections he will be
put back and put down into a place Of dis
approval from which he will never rise.
Just go to that man and unroll the scroll
Of 100 splendid Americans who, after occu-
plying high places Of promotion, we're 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 y 3 man or woman who has made
q c0niugat mistake, and q vulture has been
put into the same cage with a dove or q
lion and 9 lamb In the same jungle. The
world laughs at the misfortune, but It Is
your business to weep with their woe.
There = = merchant who bought at the
wrong time or 4 manufacturer whose old
machinery has been superseded by a new
Invention or who under change Of tariff ON
certain styles Of fabric has been dropped
from amuonce Into Bankruptcy. Goto him
and recall the anne Of Atty business men
who lost Al but their honesty and God and
heaven. Let them know there are hun-
that are thought Of In heavenly spheres
moro shan many who are high up andgoiDg
higher. All viii 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.
Go to that literary man who is starving
with 9 brilliant pen In his right hand, his
literary position lost, his books unstable,
and tell him Of the mightiest OF the past
the present who suffered from nonap-
probation. Show the discouraged author
whose manuscript the publishing house
will not take that among the rejected man
uscri1ts Of the publishing houses for
awhile were Paradise LOST and ssJane
Eyre" and Fhackeray's Vanity Fair and
ssYestiges Of Creation" and s'Uncie Toms
Cabin" and that Shakespeare was compare
lively unknown in England until Germany
acclaimed its appreciation OF tie greatest
Of dramatists. Unroll before that discour-
aged pubnc man the cartoons In the time
Of Andrew Jackson and Abraham Lincoln
and James G. Blaine and show all the mis-
interpreted and pursued the fact that they
have It no worse han many who have pre-
coded them that in most cases It Is
jealousy at success that has caused the as
sault.
Hearth The more you 60 to busying
yourselves In other mems matters he bet
ter II You have design of Offering relief.
Search out the quarrels, hat you may set
tie them; the fallen, that you may lift
them; the pangs, hat you may assuage
them. Arm yourself with two bottles OF
Divine medicine, the one q tonic d the
other an ~anBsthetic, the latter to soothe
and quiet, the former to stimulate, to In
sptre to sublime action. That mans mat
tiers need looking after In his respect.
There are 10,000 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 II they had not re-
solved upon suppression.
Go forth to be 9 busybody In other
mems matters. so TAR as you can helping
them out, and help them on. The world
Is full of instances OF those who spend their
life In such alterations. But there is one
instance that overtops and eclipses all
others. He had lived in a palace. Radiant
onss waited upon Him. He was charioted
at gates g~listening with pearl and ho-
sannaed by immortals coroneted and
In snowy white. Centuries gave Him
not q pain. The sun that rose on Him
never set. His dominions could not be
enlarged, for they had no boundaries,
and uncontested was His reign. Upon
all that luster and renown and en-
~ 6R4QuQOIo no tuIu0N nlS
b ck aud put down His crown at the foot
OF His throne md on g bleak December
night trOd His way down to q stone house
In Bethlehem of our world. Wrapped In
what plain shawl, and pursued with what
enemies on swift camels, aud howled at
with what brigands, and thrust with what
sharp lances, and hidden in what sepui-
chrsl crypt until the subsequent centuries
have tried In vain to tell the story by
sculptured cross. and painted anvas and
resounding doxologies, and domed cathe-
dral, and redeemed nations.
He could not see 9 woman doubled up
witherheumatism, but He touched her, and
infamed muscles relaxed, and she stood
straight up. He could not meet q funeral
Of q young man but He broke up the pro-
cession and gave him back to his widowed
mother. With spittle on the tip Of His
finger He turned the midnight of total
blindness into the mtdnoon Of perfect
sight. He could not see a man Town on
his mattress helpless with palsy without
calling him up to health and telling him to
shoulder the mattress and walk Of. He
could not flnd q man tongue tied, but He
gave him immediate articulation. Hecould
not see q man with the puzzled and inquir-
Ing look OF the deaf without giving him
capacity to hear the march of life beating
on the drum OF the ear. He could not see
q crowd OF hungry people, but He made
enough good bread and u surplus that re.
quired all the baskets.
And now my words are to the invisible
m~ultitudes I reach week by week, but yet
pect to meet at the bar OF God and hope to
see tn the blessed heaven. The last word
that wight L. Moody. the great evan
gellst, said to me ut P~lainfeld, N. j., and
he repeated the message for me to others,
was. Never be tempted under any circum-