The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1902-01-18

ness 10 courtesyi The lack Of Il
brings to many q dead failure, while
before those who possess IL In large
quantity all the doors of opportu-
nifty are open. You can tell what ur-
banity does not come from study of
books Of etiquette, although such
books have their use, but from .
mind full of thoughtfulness for 9TH
ers and heart in sympathy with the
conditions of others. II those condi-
tions be prosperous, gladness for
the success, or II the conditions be
depressing, a sorrow for the unfsvor-
able circumstances. All, this world
needs lighting up! To those Of MS
who are prosperous IL is no credit
that we live in state Of good cheer,
but in the lives of 90 out of 100 there
is q pathetic side, taking of, def
icit, an anxiety, trouble. BY q
genial look, by kind word, by help
full action, we may lift a little of the
burden and partly clear the way for
the stumbling foot. Oh, what glori-
GUS art 1t is to say the right word
in the right way at the right time!
How reprehensible the behavior Of
those who pride themselves on the
opposite quality and have n genius
for saying disagreeable things, using
sarcasm and retort not for lawful
purposes, but to sting and humiliate
and hurt! Didn't take him DOWN."
Didn't I make him wince?r didn't
l give it to him?" That is the spirit
: of the devil, while the opposite is the
spirit of Christ.
! The time must come when the world
will acknowledge international cour-
tesy. Now courtesy between nations
is chiefly made of rhetorical greeting,
but as soon as there is a difference Of
interest their ministers plenipotentiary
are called home, and the guns of the
forts are put in position, and the army
and navy get ready. Why not cour-
tesy between nations that will defer
! to each other and surrender little
rather than have prolonged acrimony,
ending in great slaughter? Room for
all nations Of the earth and all styles
of government. What the world wants
! is less armament and more courtesy,
less Of the spirit OF destruction and
more Of the spirit of amity. This CEN
fury has opened with too many armies
in the field and too many men-of-war
on the ocean. Before the century closes
may the last cavalry horse be hitched
to the plow and the last warship be-
come merchantmen.
There is nothing worthy in the
| thought that the earth will get too
crowded with population il vast multi
tudes are not destroyed by war. When
our old world is full of inha bitants.
it will have fulfilled its mission, and 1t
will be put aside like an old ship turned
into a navy yard and dismantled and
the worlds inhabitants transferred to
some other constellation. The angels
in the song celebrated this coming in
ternational courtesy when in the Beth
lehem starlight they ehanted: GOOD
will to men,"
If others lack courtesy that is no
reason why you should lack it. Re-
spond to rudeness by utmost affabili-
ty. Because some one else is boor
is no reason why you should be boor.
But how few show urbanity when bad
ly treated! Human nature says: IAN
eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, re-
tort for retort, SANDER for SANDER,
maltre atment for maltreatment." But
there have been those you and have
known who amid assault and carica-
ture and injustice have maintained the
loneliness of blossom week in spring
time Nothing but Divine grace in the
heart can keep such equilibrium. That
is not human nature until 1t is trans
formed by supernal influences. To put
it on the lowest ground you cannot af-
ford to be revengeful and malignant.
Hatred and high indignation are stages
of unhealth. They enlarge the spleen;
they weaken the nerves; they attack
the brain. Rage in man is one form
of apoplexy. Every time you get mad
| you damage your body and mind and
soul, and you have not such surplus
of vigor and energy that you can af-
ford to sacrifice them.
So 1 applaud Christian courtesy.
would put it upon the throne of every
heart in all the world. The. beauty Of
! it is that you may extend 1t to others
| and have just as much Of it-yea, more
of it-left in your own heart and life.
II is like the miracle of the loayes and
fishes, which, by being divided, were
multiplied until 12 baskets were
filed with the remnants. 1t is like
torch, with which so lamps may be
lighted and yet the torch remain as
bright as before it lighted the first
lamp.
But this grace will not come to its
coronal until it reaches the heavenly
sphere. What a world that must be
where selfishness and jealousy and
pride and acerbities of temper have
never entered and never will enteri
No struggle for precedence. No rival
nv between cherubim and seraphim.
| No ambition as to who shall have the
front seats in the temple Of God and
the Lamb No controversy about the
place the guest may take at the ban
ouet. No rivalry of robe or coronet.
No racing of chariots. No throne look
ing askance upon other thrones, but
ali the inhabitants perfectly happy and
rejoicing in the perfect happiness of
others. IL never get to any other de-
lightful place, want to get to that
| nlace What a realm to live in for