Milford chronicle., 1903-04-03


0 in the next town." Next day anothe
$ emigrant drove up to the same farm
s house. He asked the same question
t Friend" asked the Quaker farmer
what kind of people did thee leave il
) the place from whence thee came?
: "Oh," answered this new arrival, ''the!
were the kindest, the dearest people OF
J earth. | would never have left them
but my dear wife died Then the ole
homestead became intolerable. Every
room reminded me of her. Every frient
would open the bleeding wound of my
heart. / could not believe that any
people could ever be so kind as my
old neighbors were during my late
trouble" Friend" answered the Qua
ker farmer, thee will find the same
kind of neighbors in the next town as
in the place from whence thee came"
speak Only of the Good.
Like the old Quaker farmer, l would
declare that each hearer can find good
in all men or bad in all men just in
proportion as his own heart is good or
bad And if we have any good in our
own makeup it is very important that
we have the "silver tongue of speech"
in order to talk about other peoples
/ virtues Let others, if they will, ud-
vertise the errors; we will only speak
about the goo,l.
The golden lips of gospel silence new
er fO0lishly whisper sinful tales into
the ears Of wrongdoers by which they
shall try to justify their own sins. A
good example is infectious. When Mr.
Beecher was a young pastor in Indiana.
he made up his mind that he would
try TO preach the love of God from a
flower garden as well as from his pull
pit He laid out his parsonage grounds
in rows of roses and geraniums, vio-
lets and hydrangeas. One year he
planted a bed of over 5000 hyacinths
At first the village people in great
wOnderment would come and look at
his garden. Then they would solilo-
qulze. "Why cannot we have flowers
in our front yards?" After awhile the
little flower gardens began to grow ev-
erywhere-here one, there another. At
last Mr.. Beecher was able to say pub |
licly, Let your flowers so shine that
men, seeing how beautiful they are 1
will go and make gardens for them /
selves" The young preachers love Of +
flowers began to take root and blossom /
in many hearts.
What is true in reference to the in
fectiOn of a good example is also true
of the infection of a bad example.
Some of the toll keepers in New Zea-
land have trained sheep, which, for a
small consideration, they let out to the
sheep drovers to lead their flocks of
sheep across the bridges which span
the rivers or the ravines. When the
sheep which are being driven to mar
ket come up to these bridges, they are
frightened and will not go over Then
these trained sheep come to the head
Of the flock and lead the way. When
the unframed sheep see that some of
their number can cross the bridge,
with a steady rush they follow after
their leaders. There are scores and
hundreds and thousands of men and
who want to do wrong. They
lre afraid to do wrong. But when
-hey hear of the shortcomings Of their
fellow men. they say to themselves:
Well, if So-and-so can sow his wild
BATS, guess we can. If So-and-sO can
safely cross the rickety bridge span
hing the river of death, guess we can
llsO trust ourselves upon the swinging
span. Here gOesI Finder is not
more apt to take fire." once wrote
Phillips Brooks, nor wax to take the
impression Of the seal nor paper the
nix than youth is TO follow i'll exam
lies" when the abbot throws the
lice" goes an old legend, "the whole
convent will gamble also" The reason
he Chinese ladies of today crush and
IistOrt their feet is because centuries
go a Chinese empress was born with (
feet, and they are initiating {
he deformity. Everywhere we find
hat when a great man does wrong his {
vii conduct is taken as an example, or I
Ither as an excuse, for hundreds and 1
Of similar sins. ]
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The Artists MaHterpiece.
Never give any man a chance by the I
acital of some wrong or sin to turn his +