The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-02-06

and be who does so wins the applause OF
the high heavens. Just look abroad for
the people who have made great mistakes.
and put big plaster OF coincidence on
their decorations. Such people are never
mpathized with. although they need
an infni;y OF selacs. Domestic mistakes.
Social mistakes Ecclesiastical mistakes
Political mistakes. The world has for
such only jocosisy and gesture Of dsplora-
ton. There Is 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 and
apply divine medicament.
There Is public man who has made
political mistake from which he viii never
recover. At the next elections ne viii be
put back and put down into a place OF
0isapproyRl from which he will never rise
Just go 10 that man and unroll the scroll
of one hundred 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 an
athena Of the ballOt-box
There is a man or woman who has
made a conjugal mistake and a vulture
has been put in the same cage with a
dove, or a lion and a lamb in the same
tune, but IL y your business TO weep with
their woe. There Is n merchant who
bought at the wrong time, or a manufac-
turer whose old machinery has been sup
eFceded by new invention or who under
change OF tariff on certain STYLES OF fabric
has been dropped from affiUenCe into
bankruptcy. Go to him and recall the
names of fifty 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 coed and love-
ly Arthur Tappan. who failed In business.
was more { be admired than william
Tweed, in possession of his stolen mil
lions.
Comfort for the Unsuccessful.
Go to that literary man who is starv-
ing with a brilliant pen in his right hand,
his literary position lest. his books IN
salable. and tell him OF the mightiest of
the past and the present who suffered
from non-appreciation. Show the dis
couraged author. whose manuscript the
publishing house will not take, that
among the rejected manuscripts OF the
publishing houses for awhile were Para
disc Lost and Jane Eyre and Thack-
eray's Vanity Fair and 'VestiRes of
y
that Shakespeare was comparatively I'M
known IN England until Germany &C
claimed its appreciation of the greatest
Of lramatists. Unroll before that dis
couraged public man the cartoons in the
time of Andrew Jackson and Abraham
Lincoln and James G.. elaine. and show
all the misinterpreted and pursued the
tact that they have : no worse than
mn ny nh M
in most cases It is jealousy at success
that has caused the assault.
I'm literature ii has always been hard
for one man to speak well OF another.
voltaire hated Rousseau. Charles Lamb
could not endure Coleridge Coleridge de-
rides De Quincy because, while they both
used opiIm. he says De Quincy took it
for pleasure while he (Coleridge) took ii
to relieve pain. Waller wars against
Cowley. The hatred of Plato and Keno
phon is as immortal as their works Cor
nellie had utter contempt for Racine. At
( Westminster Abbey, in the Poets Cor
ner.' sleep Drayton. the poet and Goldie
who said he was not a poet; and there
rest Dryden. and not far off poor Shad-
we'll who had pursued him with fiends
( fury; Pope. and John Dennis. his implac-
able enemy. Show those wronged OF
criticism that they are not exceptional
cases, and so comfort them to bear the
outrage.
Hear IT, the more you go TO busylng
yourselves In other mems matters the
better If you have design OF Offering re-
lief. Search out the uuarreis. that you
may settle them the fallen. that you may
| lift them: the psngs. that you may as
suage them. Arm yourself with two bot
ties Of divine medicine. the one a tonic
and the other an anaesthetic: the latter
to soothe and quiet, the former TO stinu-
late, to inspire to sublime action. That
mans matters need looking after in this
respect. There are ten thousand men and
women who need your help. and need II
right away. They do not sit down and
/ cry. They make no appeal for HELM. bu,
within ter yards of where you sir IN
! church and within ten minutes walk OF
( your home there are people in enough
trouble to make them shrek out with
agony IL they had not resolved upon sup.
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