The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-01-19

me heather. Goodby." A stranger ent-- I cred a church in one of the cities and was allowed to stand long while. al- | though there was plenty of room. NO
 one offered seat. The stranger after
 awhile, said to one of the brethren. i What church is this?' The answer was. "Christ's church. sir" 'Is he in?' said
 the stranger. The officer of the church understood what was meant and gave | him seat. We want more courtesy | in the churches, more courtesy in places | of business, more courtesy in our homes But heart courtesy must precede hand and head and foot courtesy. Cultivation of it should begin in the fathers house. You often notice that brothers ana sis- ters are often grun and snappy and say things that they would not have the are sometimes said in households which ought never to be said at all-teasing | and recrimination and faultfinding and harsh criticisms, which will have their
 echo thirty and forty and fifty years af- forward. In the sleet driven by that | east wind no sweet flowers of kindness | and geniality will grow. Let children | hear their parents picking at each other, and those children will be found picking at each other, and far down the road of life will be seen the same disposition of picking at children. which so many parents indulge in, would be one good, | healthy application of the rod. Better | a shower that lasts few minutes than l the COlu 0TlzZle OL Aldlly Ody "C
 never get over our first home. however many homes we may have afterward.
 Cultivate Christian Grace.
 | Let us cultivate this grace of Chris
 tian courtesy by ndulging fin the habit of | praise instead of the habit of blame. | There are evils in the world that we
 must denounce. and there are men and | women who ought to be chastised, but | never let us allow the opportunity of ap- plauding good deeds pass unimproved. l The old theory was that you must never praise people lest we make them vain. | No danger of that J:ef5~e any of us get | through with life we will have enough mean and ignoble and depreciatinR and | lying things said about us to Keep us | humble. God approv!ngly recognizes a | system of rewards as well as or punish ments.
 l When you hear good sermon. stop after the benediction and tell the pastor, | though you never saw him before that | day, Your sermon did me good" When l tell him it is well done. When a phy- I sician brings you out of a nerilous ill- ness, stop him in the street and say, | Doctor, you saved my life." When you hear of business man in some heavy
 stress of financial weather helping frall- | CT craft into the harbor. 90 into his | counting room and say, T hear you have | bAan helping your fellow business man | to outride the tempest of a panic, and 1 came in to thank you for the good | advice you gave and to let you know
 that all good citizens appreciate what | you have been doing Go down the 1 street tomorrow and thank somebody. | There are hundreds of people who never | get thanked at all, Plenty of severe crit
 icism. plenty of faultfinding; plenty or | misinterpretation, plenty of depreciation. but as to gratitude-that Is market in
 which the supply does not equal the | demand.
 | Christian courtesy let us abstain from | joining in the work of defamation. Ev- | cry little while society takes atter
 man, and 1t must have a victim. IT you | had a roll of all the public men of this | generation who have been denounced ana | despoiled of their good name. 1t would | take you a long while to call the roll:
 It is a bad streak in human nature that | there are so many who prefer to believe | evil instead of good concerning any one under discussion. If good motive and
 a bad motive have been possible in the | case in hand, one man will believe the | conduct was inspired bv good motive. | and ten men will believe 1t was inspired
 by bad motive. The more faalts a | man has of his own the more willing Is
 he to ascribe faults to others,
 Speak Well of One Another.
 What a curse of cynics and pessimists
 afflicts our time, afflicts all time! There
 are those who praise no one until he IS
 dead. Nov that he is clear under ground
 and heavy stone Is on top of him there l is no possibility of his ever coming ur
 again as a rival. Some of the epitaphs i on tombstoues are so fulsome that on
 resurrection day a man rising may, il | he reads the epitaph, for the moment | think he got into the wrong grave. Speak
 well one of another. and if you find | yourself in circles disposed to islander | and abuse be for the time as dumb as ! the sphyaX which. though only few | yards away from the overshadowing pyr' | amid of Egypt. has not with it's lips
 of stone spoken one words in thousand: | of years. l There are two sides to every mans
 character--a good side and an evil side