The Indianapolis world., 1900-01-27

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On the other hand, # he be cynica
/ about the character of others and
chiefly observant of defects and glad
| to find something wrong in character
/ the fact is apt to be demonstrated in
! his looks However regular his fea-
| lures and though constructed accord
/ ing to the laws of Kaspar Lavater, his
visage is sour. He may smile, but 1t is
a sour smile. There is a sneer in the
imitation of the nostril. There is a
mean curvature to the lip. There is a
bad look in the eye. The devil of sar-
casm and maievolence and suspicion
has taken possession of him, and you
see it as lplainly as though from the
hair line of the forehead to the lowest
point in the round of his chin it were
written: Mine! Mine! I, the demon
of the pit, have soured his visage with
my curse Look at him! He chose n
diet of carriOn. He glOated over the
miSdeeds of others. 1t took all my
Internal enginery to make him what
he is-'a busybody in other mems mat
terS'"
There is n man or woman who has
IL
tUre has been put into the same cage
with a dove or a lion and n lamb il
the same jungle. The world laughs a
the misfortune, but it is your business
to weep with their woe. There is a
merchant who bought at the wrong
time or a manufacturer whose old ma
chinery has been superseded by a new
invention or who under change of tar
iff on certain styles of fabric has been
dropped from affluence into bankrupt
cy. Go to him and recall the names Of
so business men who lost all but their
honesty and God and heaven. 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. All will acknowledge that
good and lovely Arthur Tappan. who
failed in business. was more>to be ad-
mired than William Tweed in posses
sion of his stolen millions.
Hear it! The more you go to busy
ing yourselves in other mems mat
ters the better if you have design of
offering relief. Search out the quar-
rels, that you may settle them: the
fallen, that you may lift them: the
pangs, that you may aSsuage them
Arm yourself with two bottles of di-
vine medicine, the one n tonic and
the other an anaeSthetic, the latter to
soothe and quiet, the former to Stimu-
late. to inspire to sublime action That
mans matters need looking after in
this respect. There are 10000 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 min
Utes' walk of your home there are peo-
pie in enough trouble to make them
Shrek out with agony if they had not
resolved upon suppression.
Go forth to be a busybOdy in other |
mems matters, so far as you can help
them cut. and help them on. The |
world is full of instances of those who |
spend their life in such alleviat tons. |
But there is one instance that overtops |
and eclipseS all others. He had lived |
in a palace Radiant ones waited up |
on him. He was charioted along |
streets yellow with gold and stopped |
at gates glistening with pearl and ho-
by immOrtals coroneted and |
in snow white. Centuries gave him |
not a pain. The sun that rose on him
never set His dOminions could not be |
enlarged for they had no boundaries.
and uncOntCSted was his reign. Upon
all that luster and renown and en-
of splendOrs he turned his
back and put down his crown at the
foot of his throne and on a bleak De-
cember night trod his way down to a
stone house in Bethlehem Of our world.
Wrapped in that plain shawl, and
with what enemies on swift
camels, and howled at with what
brigans, and thrust with that sharp
lances, ana hidden in what sepulchral
crypt until the subsequent centuries
have tried in vain to tell the stories by
and resounding doXolOgies, and domed
and redeemed nations.
He could not see a woman doubled
up with rheumatism, but he touched
her. and infamed muscles relaxed. and
she stood straight up. He could not
meet funeral of a young man. but he
broke up the procession and gave him
back to his widowed mother. With
SplJLle on the UP OF his finger he
turned the midnight of total blindness
into the midnoon of perfect sight. He
could not see man down on his mat
tress helpless with palsy without call
ing him up to health and telling him
to shoulder the mattress and walk off.
He could not find a man tongue tied.
but he gave him immediate articula-
ton. He could not see a man with
the puzzled and inquiring 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 a surplus that
required all the baskets.
And now my words are to the invisi-
bic mnltitudes l reach week by week.
but vet will never see in this world.
but whom I expect to meet at the bar
or God and hope to see in the blessed
heaven. The last word that Dwight T.
Moody. the great evangelist, said to
me at Plainfeld. n. J.. and he repeated
the message for me to others, was.
Never be tempted under any circum-
stances to give UP your weekly Dub-
lication of sermons throughout the |
world" That solemn charge I will |