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sire to find the worst side keeps one in
spirit of disquietude and disgust and meal
suspicion, and that is a pulling down Of ou
own nature, Il Disagreement OF our OWL
character. 1 am afraid the imperfection!
nf others will kill US yet.
The habit deplore is apt to show itsell
in the visage. A kindly man who wishe!
everybody we'll 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 bis nostrils and in the
upper and lower lip the signature Of Di
vine approval. And you see 1t at Il glance
as plainly rs though it had been written al
over his face in rose color: "This Is one OIL
My princes. He Is on the way to corona.
tion. bless him now with all the bene
dietions that infnity can afford. Look q,
him. Admire him. Congratulate him."
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 weaknesses or putting
in "great primer or paragon" type their
frailities, but to offer help, sympathy and
rescue. That is Christlike, and lie 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 on their lacera-
tions. Such people are never sympathized
with although they need M ininity OF So
lace. Domestic mistakes. Social MIS-
takes. Ecclesiastical mistakes. Political
mistakes.
There is public man who has made a
political mistake from which he will never
recover. At the next elections he will be
put back and put down. into 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-
pying high places ofprom otion, were rele-
gated to private lie and public scorn.
Show him In what glorious company he
has been placed by the anathema OF the
ballot box.
There Is man or woman who hns made
conjugal mistake, and q vulture has been
put into the Same cage with a dove or a
lion and lamb in the same jungle. The
world laughs at the misfortune, but it is
your business to weep with their woe.
There is merchant who bought at the
wrong time ora manufacturer whose old
machinery has been superseded by new
invention or WHO under change Of tariff on
certain styles OF fabric has been dropped
from affluence into bankruptcy. Go to him
and recall the names OF fifty business men
who lost all but their hon esty and God and
heaven. Let them know there are hun
dreds OF good mon 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
William Tweed In possession of'his stolen
millions.
Go to that literary man who is starving
mi hrit In hfc WONT hand hfa
literary position lost, his books unstable,
and tell him Of the m:ghtiest OF the past
and the present who Suffered from nonap-,
probation. Show the discouraged author
whose manuscript the publishing hou@%
will not take that among the rejected mak
uscrlpts Fot the publishing houses for
awhile were paradise Lost" and Jane
Eyre" and Thackeray's Vanity Fair" and
tsVestlges' OF Creation" and "Uncle 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 public 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 1t no worse than many who have pre-
ceded them and that in most cases 1t Is
ieRlousy at success that has caused the as
sault. .'. =
Hear i'll The more you so to busying
yourselves in other mems matters the bet
ter II you have design OF offering relief.
Search out the quarrels, that you may set
tie them; the fallen, that you may lit
them; the pangs, that you may assuage
them. Arm yourself with two bottles OF
Divine medicine the one tonic and the
other an anasthetic, the latter to soothe
and quie., the former to stimulate, to in
sDire to sublime action. That mans mat
ters need looking after In this respect.
There are 10 900 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, hut 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 busybody in other
mems matters, so fur as you can helping
them out, and help them on. The world
is full of instances OF those who spend their
life In such alleviations. But there is one
instance that overtops and eclipses oil
others. He had lived in palace. Radiant
onss waited upon Him. He was charioted
along streets yellow with gold and stopped
at gates glistening with pearl and no.
sannaed by immortals coroneted and
in snowy white. Centuries gave Him
not q pain. The sun that rose on Hlm
never set. His dom!uions could not be
enlarged, for they had no boundaries,
and uncontested was His reign. Upon
vironment Of splendors He turned His
ba ok and put down His crown at the foot
OF His throne and on a bleak D scember
night trod His way down to stone house :
in Bethlehem OF our world. Wrapped in
what plain shawl, and pursued with what
enemies on swift camels, land howed ut
with whnt brigands, and thrust with what
sharp lances, and hidden In what sepul-
chral crypt until the subsequent centuries
have tried In vain; to tell the story by
sculptured cross, and painted canvas, and
resounding doxologles, and domed cathe-'
dral, and redeemed nations.
He could not see woman doubled up.
with rheumatism, but He touched her, and
infamed muscles relaxedT and she stood
straight up: He could not meet 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 midnoon OF perfect
Sight. He could not see man lown on
his mattress helpless with pnlsy without
calling him up to health and telling him to
shoulder the mattress and walk off. He
could not find n man tongue tied, but He
gave him immediate articulation. Hecould
not sees man with the puzzled and inquir-
ing look OF the deaf without giving him
Ca pa city to hear the march Of life beating
on the drum OF the ear. he could not sec
a crowd Of hungry people, but he made
enough good bread and u surplus that re-
ouired oil the baskets.
And now my words are to the Invisible
muItitudes reach week by week, but YET
will never see In this world, but whom ex-
pect to meet at the har OF God aud hopo to
see in the blessed heaven. The last word
that D wight L. Moody. the great evan-
geist, said to me mt PlainHeld, n. j., and
he epeated the message for me to others,
WAS, "Never be tempted under any circum-