The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1900-03-24

cartridges and quail. but for vui-
lures. You have been microscope
izlng the worlds faults. You nave
been down in the marshes when you ougnt
to have been on the uplands. nase
caught you at last. Yon are "a Dusypooy
in other mems matters"
How Is It that you can always NM TWO
opinions about any one and those Two
opinions exactly opposite? will tell you
the reason. It Is because there are two
sides to every characteristic best size ana
the worst side. A we'll disposed man cniet.
" seeks the best side. The badly disposeo
seeks chiefly the worst side. Be ours the
desire TO see the best side for 1t II health.
Ter for us so to do and stirs admiration,
which Is an elevated state, while the DC.
sire to find the worst side keeps one In
spirit OF disquietude and disgust and mean
suspicion and that IL q pulling down OF our
own nature, disbursement OF our own
character. I am afraid tue 1mpeIiecsioAs
OF others will kill US yet.
The habit deplore 10 apt to show itseiL
In the visage. A kindly man who wishes
everybody we'll soon demonstrates MS as
position in his looks. His features may
fracture all the laws OF handsome physiog'
nomy, but G ID puts into that mans eyes
and In the curve OF his nostrils and In the
upper and lower lip the signature OF DE-
vine approval. Aud you see 1t at glance.
as plainly as though 1t had been written AL
over his face in rose color: "This Is one OK
NV princes. He Is on the way to corona
ton. bloss him now with all the oene.
dictionn that inflnity can afford. LOOK a.
But there is q 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 tne's
frailitiss, but to offer help, sympathy ana
~Sak1 nd n
| does so wins the applause OF the niGn
heavens. just look abroad for tho people
who have made great mistakes and put Q
big plaster OF coincidence on their lacera:
lions. Such people are never sympathizeo
With although they need an innoity OF So
lace. Domestic mistakes. Social ms,
takes, Ecclesiastical mistakes. POLITICAL
| mistakes.
| There is q public man who has made
political mistake from which he will never
recover. At the next elections he WILL be
nut back and put down iuto place OF ois-
| approyal from which he will never rise.
Just go to that man and unroil the scroii
of 400 splendid Americans who, after occu-
plying high places Of promotion. were rels'
Show him In what glorious company he
has been placed by the anathema OF the
ballot box.
There is @ man or woman who mas maos
a coujugal mistake, and a vulture has been
put into the same cage with q dove OF q
lion and n lamb II the same jungle. Tne
/ world laughs ut the misfortune, bue IL Is
your business to weep with their woe
There Is n merchant who bought az tne
wrong time or q manufacturer whose Old
machinery has been superseded BY new
invention or who under change OF tarin on
certain styles of fabric has been dropped
from affiu ence into bankruptcy. Goto MIN
: and recall the names OF ffty business meI
who lost all but their honesty and God ane
heaven. Let them know there arc nSn
dreds of good men who have gone unde
that are thought OF In heavenly spheres
y more than many who are high up and goiDl
Q higher. All will acknowledge that goo
and lovely Arthur Tappan, who failed II
Z business, was moro to be admired tnal
: William Tweed In possession OF his stoiel
7 millions.
= Hear It'll The more you go to busyinl
= yourselves In other mems matters the pet
= ter II YOU have design OF Offering relief
5 Search out the quarrels, that you may set
. tie them; the fallen, that you may Ill
. them: the pangs, that you may assuag
. them. Arm yourself with two bottles o
;. Divine medicine, the one tonic ana IN
a other an anesthetic, the Inter to sootn'
r and 9uie:, the former to stimulate, 70 in
!. spire to sublime action. That mans MAJ
!, tiers need looking after In this respec'
), There are 10, 900 men and women who nee
= your help and need 1t right away. inc
y do not sit down and cry. They make
. appeal for help, but within ten yards
where you sit In church and within te
y minutes walk OF your home there are Pee
" shrek out with agony II they had NOT re
4 solved upon suppression.
d II YOU are rightly interested In oths
,f mems matters, go to those VINO are Jus
II starting in their occupations or profe
sions and give them boost. Those OIL
n physicians do not want your help, for the
4. are surrounded with more patients tha
IS they can attend to, but cheer those youn
IN doctors who are counting out their mr.
h drops to patients who cannot AFFORD to pa.
20 Those old attorneys at the law want no bel
Is from you, for they take retatners only fro
h the lore prosperous clients, but cheer thol
lie young attorneys who have not ma
90 a brief at all lucrative. Those Of
~ merchants have their business |
re- we'll established that they feel ind
re pendent OF banks, OF all changes
v: tariffs, OF all panics, but cheer tho
at Young merchants who are making the
de first mistakes In bargain and sale. Tn
We old farmer who has 200 acres In best tillai
en- and his barns full OF harvested crops al
a the grain merchant having bought
wheat at high prices before It was reapt
- needs no sympathy from you, but che
~ I'D that young farmer whose acres q
~ covered with big mortgage and Il
-. drouy at strikes them the first year. tn
AZ builder with contracts made for tho 60
-. struction OF half q dozen houses and Il
=; owners impatient for occupancy IL not
nv be pitied, but give your sympathy to tn
A. mechanic In early acquaintance With hal
he mer and saw and bit and amid all
nh limitations OF a journeyman.
We And now my words are to the invlsih
er, multitudes reach week BY week, but
bo will never see In this world, but whom q
De- pect to meet at the bar OF God and hope
OF see In the blessed heaven. The last wo
,nt that d wight L. Moody. the great eva
zen Qelist. said to me at Piainield. N. j., a
Die he repeated the message for me to othe
int was, '.Never be tempted under any circu
.he stances to give up your weekly pu
LEGATION of sermons throughout
is. world" That solemn charge ! v
sy- heed as long as have strength to 9
ose them and the newspaper types desire
the rake them. oh, ye people back there
the the Sheffield mines OF England. ana ye
all the sheep pastures OF Australia, and
ere amid the pictured terraces OF New Zeaia'
hes and w among the cinnamon and color
ian famed groves Of Ceylon, and ye Armenis
18th weeping over the graves OF murder
ia. households In Asia Minor. and ye ar
pod the idolatries OF Benares on the Grang
leir and We jewellers on the banks OF
ack Audroseoggin, and the Alabama, {
OF. the Mississippi, and the Oregon, I
- eha Dttua