The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1900-01-27

mAttere.
The slanderer almost always at
tempts to escape the scandal he is re-
sponsible for. When in l7tl John Nes-
lev Was preaching st Bristol aud show
ing what reason be had to trust in the
Captain Of His Salvation a hearer cried
out: "Who was your captain when
you hanged yourself? I 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 tho slanderer, instead
Of coming forward, led the room. The
author or distributor of ISLANDERS never
wants TO face his work.
On the day OF PenIecost there were
people endowed with what was called
the gift Of tongues" and they spake
for Cod 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 Ubiquitous CAB
bic. Every city, village and ~ueighbor-
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 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 I: cot be
kinder to be silent on the evil? Char
ity rejoiceth not in %iniquity."
But there is a 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 t 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 solaee. Do
nestle mistakes. Social mistakes. Ec-
clesiastical mistakes. Political mis-
takes. The world has for such only
jocosity and gesture Of deportation.
There IL an unoccupied field for you,
my brother. No one has been there.
Take your case OF medicines and 90
there and ask them where they are
hurt aud apply divine %medicament.
There Is a public man who has made
q 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 SPLEEN
Gid Americans who, after occupying
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.
II you are rightly interested IN 9TH
er mems matters, go to those who are
Just starting in their occupations or
5 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
g are counting out their first drops to
s patients who cannot afford TO pay.
8 Those old attorneys at the law want
g no help from you, for they take re-
tainers only from the more prosper
v Gus clients, but cheer those young at
v torneys who have not had a brief at
all lucrative. Those old merchants
have their business so well established
that they feel independent OF banks,
d OF all changes in tariffs, Of all panics,
6 but cheer those Young merchants who
are making their FIRST mistakes in bar
IT gain and sale. That old farmer who
has 200 acres in best tillage aud bis
p harms full Of harvested crops. and the
IT wheat at high prices before ii was
10 reaped, needs no sympathy from you
but cheer up that young farmer whose
u oGlNH alC NONNlfN WIN a VI AlOAN ShbN
It and the drought strikes them the hrst
70 year. That builder with contracts
made for the construction Of half s
d dozen houses and the owners impa
70 tient for occupancy Is not TO be pitied
lie but give your sympathy to that me
s. chanic 10 early acquaintance witi
m hammer and saw and bit and amid al
the limitations OF a ~journeyman.
Go forth 10 be a ~busybody in othe
T. msn's matters, so far as you can help
ing them out and help them on. III
* world Is full OF instances Of those VIII
ir spend their life in such alterations, bu
Of there is one instance that overtops an
eelipseS all Others. lie had lived in
in palace. Radiant ones waited upon hin
he he was eharioted along streets yellow
re with gold, and stopped at gates glisten
a. ing with pearls. and %hosannaed by in
I'd mortals coroneIed and In snowy white
Centuries gave him not a pain. Tn
sun that rose on him never set. His dc
minionS could not be enlarged, for the
ia had no boundaries. and u~nconteste
Vas His reign. Upon all that luster an
renown and environment OF splendor
rs lie turned His back and put down hi
,le crown al the foot Of His throne. and 0
MI a bleak December night trod Ills wa
is down 10 a stone house in Bethlehem {
he our world. Wrapped In what plai
OF shawl, and pursued with what enemit
M OF swift camels. and howled at wit
ma what brigands, and thrust with whi
bv sharp lances, and hidden In what sept
1, cbral crypt until the subsequent Gel
turtles have tried In vain TO tell the stor
by sculptured cross. and painted cal
vas. and %resoundlng doxologies, an
tu domed cathedral, and redeemed u
tons.
he could not see a woman doubled 4
m With rheumatism but He touched be
-, and inlsmed muscles relaxed, and 81
a. stood straight up. He could o meet
funeral Of q young man but be broke 1
the procession and gave him back 10 b
~ widowed mother. With spittle on Il
tip Of His finger he turned the mi
night Of total blindness into the mi
I'D noon Of perfect sight. He could not a
a man down on bis mattress helple
20 with palsy without calling him up
health and telling him TO shoulder Il
-m mattress and walk off. He could D
find a man t~onguetied but He gave hi
immediate articulation. He could o
"" see a man with the puzzled and inqui
ing look Of the deaf without giving hi
-, capacity 10 hear the march Of life bei
hs' ing on the drum Of the ear. He cou
IVY not see a crowd Of hungry people b
'ou He made enough good bread and a At
plus that required all The baskets.
% He scolded only twice that ! rene
Der, once al the bypocrites with clio
gaLed Tsage and the other time wb
nv q sinful crowd had aTraigned an nnit
ori tupate woman, and the Lord, with I