The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-01-22

something wrong In char acter, the fact, Il
apt to be, demonstrated In his looks
However regular bis features and though
constructed according to the laws o.
Kaspar Lavater, his visage Ii sour. III
may smile, but II is sour smile. There
Is a sneer In the imitation Of the nostril
There Is a mean curvature to the lip
There Is bad look in the eye. The devil
Of sarcasm and malevolence and suspi
cion has taken possession Of him. and you
see it as plainly as though from the hair
line Of the forehead to the lowest point in
the round Of his chin 1t were written:
mine! Mine! l. the demon of the pit,
have soured his yisage with my curse,
Look at him! He chose diet of carrion.
He gloated over the misdeeds Of others.
It took all my internal engineery to make
him what he is-'a busybody in other
mems Matters"
The slanderer almost always attempts
to escape the scandal he ia responsible
for. When In 1741 John Wesley was
preaching at Bristol and showing what
reason lie had to trust in the Captain Of
His Salvation, a hearer cried out: WHO
was your captain when you hanged your
self2 l know the man who saw you
when you were cut down." John Wesley
asked the audience to make room and let
the slanderer 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 face his work.
Gift Of Evil Tongues.
On the day of Pentecost there were
peaple 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 have 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 1t these scavenger
carts. Whey. anything Is said to you de-
famatory Of the character Of others. imi-
tate Joseph John Quincy Of England,
who, when bad report was brought to
him concerning anybody, asked: "Dost
thou know any good thing to tell US con-
corning her? Since there is no good to
relate, would It not be kinder to be silent
on the evil? Charity rejoiceth not in In
iquity."
But there Is worthy and Christian
way of looking abroad upon others, not
for the purpose of bringing them to dis
advantage 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 big plas-
ter Of coincidence on their decorations.
Such people are never sympathized with.
although they need an in6nity Of solaco.
Domestic mistakes. Social mistakes.
takes. The world has for such only
jocosity and gesture Of deportation.
There is an unoccupied field for you, my
brother. No one has been there. Take
your case of medicines and 60 there and
ask them where they are hurt and apply
divine medicament.
There Is public man. who has made
political mistake from which he will new.
er recover. At the next elections lie will
be put back and put down into place
of disapproval from which he will never
rise. Just go to that man and unroll the
scroll Of 100 splendid Americans who,
after occupying high places of promo
ton, were relegated 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 a man or woman who has
made a coniugal mistake and vulture
has been put into the same cage with a
dove or lion and lamb in the same
jungle. The world laughs at the mis-.
fortune, but it is your business to weep
with their woe. There Is merchant
who bought at the wrong time or man
ufacturer whose old machinery has been
superseded by new invention or who
under change of tariff on certain styles
of fabric has been dropped from affiucnce'
into bankruptcy. Go 10 him and recall
the names Of so business men wholios ,
all but their honesty and Godoand sheavS q :
en-. Let them know there are hundreds
of good men who have gone under that
are thought of in heavenly spheres more
than many who are high up and going
higher.
Go to that literary man who Is starving
with 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 nom
appreciation. Show the discouraged au-
thor whose manuscript the publishing
house will not take that among the re-
jected manuscripts of the publishing
houses for awhile were paradise Lost"
and Jane Eyre" and Thackeray's "Van-
ity Fair" and "Vcstiges of Creation"
and Uncle Toms Cabin" and that
was comparatively I'M
known In England until Germany ac-
claimed Its appreciation of the greatest
Of dramatists. Unroll before that dis
public man the cartoons in the
time Of Andrew Jackson and Abraham
Lincoln and James e. Blaine, and show
all the misinterpreted and pursued the
Tact that they have it no worse than
many who have preceded them and that |
IN most cases it Is Jealousy at success
that has caused the assault.
Divine Medicine.
Hear 1t! The more you 60 to busying |
yourselves in other mems matters the
better II you have design of offering re-
ief. Search out the quarrels, that you
may settle them; the fallen, that you
nay lift them; the pangs, that you may
,ssuage them. Arm yourself with two
bottles of divine medicine, the one
ionic and the other an annsthet'c, the
after to soothe and quiet. the former to
stimulate, to inspire to sublime action.
That mans matters need looking after in
his respect. There are 10000 men and
women who need your help and need 1t
light away. They do not sit down and
ny. They make no appeal for help, but
within ten yards Of where you sit in
.hurch and within ten minutes walk of
rour home there are people In enough
rouble to make them shrek out with
lgony II they had not resolved upon sup
,ression.
II you are rightly interested In other
mems matters. 60 to those who are Just