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':1 1 r, Ta" T2. A "ST ' s3 ' IT T IF V yNI 1 JL VZJU v . DR. J. H. DANIEL Editor and Proprietor. -PROVE ALL THINGS. AND HOLD FAST TO THAT WHICH IS GOOD. $1.00 Per Year. In Advance VOL. IV. DUNN, HAflNETT CO., THURSDAY" MARCH 8 1894. NO. 2. 1 ; . ? DIRECTORY, A. Pir- kM . "HI!lliio IIT. -I. H. 0M. .1. ". Cx. 1'. T. M i-M"iill, F T. M rc. Aro-riH-v, F. 1. Jones. Mur-hal. M- L. MK; H'dst Rev. Geo. T. Simmons. Pastor Sf .vices at 7 p. m. every Ffr.t Suiutny. iukI 11 a. in. and 7 p. in. every Fourth Sunday. Prayer meeting -very Wednesday night at 7 o'clock. Sun' :y school every Sunday moruincr t Ift Vi'rToVk". 1. K. Orantl.am Sairinteiidant. MetinK of Sunday-School Missionary So cietv every 4th. Sunday afternoon. Younsr vmi'm Prayer-meeting every Mon day niht. i I'rebSbytkki an lie v. A.M Services every First and Flftti , Bond!- at ' 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. Sunday school every Sunday evening at i::0 o'clock, Dr, J, II. Daniel, Smer:iidant. i Discipies Rev. J. J. TTarper, Paster. j Services every Third Sunday, at 11 a. in. and 7 p. in. j Sunday school every Sunday at 2 o'clock, I ProT. W. C. William. Superintendent, j l'rayer meeting- every Thursday nijfht at J 7 o'clock. "' j MlS!"VARV BATTIST Rev. X. B. Cobb, D. D- j Pastor. Services every Second Sunday at 11 a III. and 7 I . m. , . Sunday school every.Snnday mrrningr at 10 o'clock. R.. Taylor. Superuitudant. .Vrayermeetloiirf every Thursday night at 5:30 o'clock. Frkf-Will Baftist Rev. J. II. Worley, 1'sMtor. Services every Fourth Sunday at 11 a. m. Sunday sdhool every Sunday evening at3 o'clock. Erasmus Lee Superintendant. Pi'.imatjve BAPTIST Elder Burnice Wood IV.stor S .-vices evey Third Sunday at 11 a. m. and Saturday Iwfore the Third Sunday at 11 a.m. t EE J. RF.sT. ATTORNEY AT LAW. DUNN. N. C. Prnrticp in all the Courts. Prorant attention to all business. J 25 I y A NEW LAW FIRM. D. H. McLean and T. A. Farmer nave this day associated thftmelves together in the practice f law in all the court9 of the State. Collections ami general practice D. H. McLean, of Lillinaton, N. C J. A. Farmer, of Dunn. N, C. Mav-:K93. TU J. H DANIEL. U DUNN, HARNETT CO. N C. Practice confined to the disease of Cancer. Poitivel'v will not vis't pat'ence at ft distance. A pamphlet On Can Hr. Its Treat ment and Cure, will be mailed to any address free of c arge. 1 E. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Will Practice in all the surround counties. JONESBORO. X, C Ar-rll-21-9. MILLIK1ERY HAVE YOU EX A MEN ED II THE BARGAINS iv.ISS MCKAY IS OFFERING IN ladie's, missps AND CHIL DREN'S HATS? SHE ALSO HAS .ON II AND A beautiful line of veiling, ladies and misses cohset. INFANTS AND 'CHILDREN'S CAPS. MEKIXE VESTS. HOSl E l?v r . . ".iLUW A.MJ MAM Oni- KR TO THINGS TOO NEUMERCUS MENTION. AND ALL AT u: :k usual lou 1 rices, satisfaction GUARANTEED, ' J 15 THE HU3IAX FACE. Dr. Ta!m.: ere Bring3 Words of Cheet to Homely People. Wlh Co 1c Their Live and Iove Tlieir tie IIom-li-t Fats May lS'me Trausiigured and Attractive. In As the subject of a recent sermon in thn Brooklyn tabernacle Kev. T. De Wilt Talmage took "The II um an Face." basing- his words on the text: A raaD' wis loin maketh his face to shinr. and the Loldncss of his face shall be changed. Ecch slates, viii., I. Thus a little change in our English translation brings out the bettor mean ing of the text, which sets forth that j the character of the face is do decided by J he main the character of the soul features of our countenance were de- cUUm1 b' the Al mighty, and we can not j change them; but under (Jod we de cide whether we shall have counte nances bonignant or baleful, sour or sweet, wrathful or genial, benevolent or mean, honest or scoundrelly, im pudent or modest, courageous or cow ardly, frank or sneaking. In all the works of (iod there is nothing more wonderful than the human counte nance. Though the longest face is less than twelve inches from the hair line of the forehead to the bottom of the chin, and the broadest face is less ; tl-iin eight inches from cheek bone to j ci-i-'t-'i ime, yet in that small compass j God hath wrought such differences I that the one billion and six hundred million of the human race may be dis tinguished from each other by' their facial appearance. The face is ordi narily the index of character. It is the throne of emotions. It is the battle field of the passions. It is the catalog-ue of character. It is the map of the mind. Now, what practical religious and eternal use would I make of this sub ject? I am going" to show that while we are not responsible for features, the Lord Almighty having decided what they shall be pre-natally, as the Psalmist declares w-hen He writes: ''In Thy book all my members were writ ten which in continuance were fash ioned when as yet there was none of them," yet the character which under God we form will chisel the face most nightly. Every man would like to have been made in appearance an Alcibiades, and every woman would like to have been made a Josephine. We all want to be agreeable. Our usefulness depends so much upon it that I consider it important and Chris tian for every man and woman to be as agreeable as possible. The slouch, the sloven, the man who does not care how he looks, all such people lack equipment for usefulness. A minister who has to throw a quid of tobacco out of his mouth before he begins to preach, or Christians with beard un trimmed, making- them to look like wild beasts come out of the liar, yea, unkempt, uncombed, unwashed, disa greeable men or women, are a hindrance to . religion more than a recommendation. And now I am poing" to tell you of Eome of the chisels that work for the dis figuration or irradiation of the human countenance. One of the sharpast and most destructive of those chisels of the countenance in Cynicism. That sours the disposition and then sours the face. It gives a contemptuous curl to the lip. It draws now the corners of the rmjuth and inflates the nostril as with a malodor. hat David said in j haste they say in tneir deliberation: j "All men are liars;" everything is go- j ing to ruin. All men and women are bad, or going- to be. Societ3"and the j church are on the down grade. . Tell J them of an act of benevolence, and ; they say he gave that to advertise j himself. They do not like the present j fashion of hats for women, or of coats for men. They are opposed to the ad ministration, municipal, and state, and national. Somehow, food does, not taste as it used to, and they wonder why there are no poets, or orators, or preachers, as when they were boys. Even Solomon, one of the wisest, and at one time one of the worst, of men, calls into the-- pessimistic mood, and cries out in the twenty-first chapter of Proverbs: "Who can find a virtuous woman?" If he had behaved himself better and kept in pood associations he would not have written thatinterroj Aionpo Hon point implying the scarcity of good h " womanhood. Cynicism, if a habit, as I may by doing thi ... .!.!. i. ......i r) by not do it, I might ua it is with tens of thousands of people. writes itself all over the features; hence . ii i at 5ora;mysourTWuu uKr the church and the world. One n"ooa way to make the world worse is to say it is worse. Let a depressed and fore boding1 opinion of everything- take possession of you for tweutj- years and you will be a sig-ht to behold. It is i , .u.,.-;-.-TYit rtf i :v.t tlint whfn a Lilt UOOllOUil.u V " ' ' man allows his heart to be cursed MniicYT iiic f i lioromes gloomed and scowled and lachrymosed and blasted "with the saine midnight. But let Christian cheerfulness sry its chisel upon a man's countenance. Feeling that all things are for his good, and that God rules, and that the Bible being- true the world's floraliza tion is rapidly approaching-, and the day when beer-mg, and demijohn, and distillery, and bomb-shell, and rifle-pit; and seventy-four pounders. and roulette tables,"an corrupt books, and satanic printing press will have quit work, the brightness that cornea from such anticipation not only gives zest to his work,but shines in his eyes and glows in his cheeks and kindles a morning in hi. entire countenance. Those are the faces look for in an au dience. Those countenances are sections oi millennial glory. They are Heaven impersonated. They are the sculpturing of God's right hand. They are hosan- nns in htun-in flosli. rl ' 1 1 tr n rt Imlla. i j iujans alighted. They are Christ re-. i j a features are or whether you look like your father, or your mother, or no one under the heavens to God and man you are beautiful. Michael Ang-elo, the sculptor, visiting Florence, some one showed him in a back yard a piece of marble that was so shapeless it seemed of no use, and Angelo was asked if he could make anything- out of it, and if , so was told he cold own it. The artist I took the marble, and for nine months j shut himself up to work, first try- j ing- to make of it a statue of ' David with his foot on Goliath, but j the marble was not quite long enough at the base to make the prostrate form of the giant, and so the artist fash ioned the marble into another figure that is so famous for all time because of its expressiveness. A critic came in and was asked by Angelo for his criti cism, and he said it was beautiful, but the nose of the statue was not of right shape. Ang-elo picked up from the floor some sand and tossed it about the face of the statue, pretending he was using" his chisel to make the improve ment suggested by the critic. "What do you think of it now?" said the artist- "Wonderfully improved," said the critic 1 "Well," said the artist, "I have not changed it at all." My friends, the grace of God comes to the heart of a man or woman and then attempts to change a forbidding- and prejudicial face into attractiveness. Perhaps the face is most unpromising for the Divine Sculptor. Hut having- changed the heart it begins to work on the countenance with celestial chisel, and into all the lineaments of the face puts a gladness and an expectation that changes it from priory to glory, and though earthby criticism may disap prove of this or that in the appearance of the face, Christ says of the newly created countenance that which Pilate said of Him: "Behold the man!" Here is another mighty chisel for the countenance, and you may call it revenge, or hate, or malevolence. This spirit having- taken possession of the heart in encamps seven devils under the eyebrows. It puts cruelty into the compression of the lips. You can tell from the man's look that he is pursuing- some one and trying to get even with him. There are suggestions of Nero, and Robespierre, and Diocletian, and thumbscrews, and racks all up and down the features. Infernal ar tists with murderers' daggers have been cutting away at that visage. The revengeful heart has built its perdition in tnc revengeiui countenance, uis- . figuration of diabolic passion! ' Hut here comes another chisel to j shape the countenance, and it is kind- ness. i nere came a moving uay, ami into her soul moved the whole family of Christian graces, with all the chil dren and grandchildren, and the com mand comes from the heavens that that woman's face shall ho made to cor respond with her superb soul. Her en- a. i tire face from ear to ear becomes the j canvas on which all the best artists in j Heaven begin to put their finest ; strokes, and on the small compass of j that face are put pictures of sunrise ' over the sea, and angels of mercy j going ud and down ladders all : a-flash, and mountains of trans-j figuration and noon-day in Heaven. ; Kindness! It is the most magnifi- : cent sculptor that ever touched human countenance. No one could wonder at the unusual geniality in the face of William Windorn, secretary of the treasury of the United States after seeing him at the New York banquet just before he dropped dead, turning . ... . aown, saving: nd some, but mage many. He kind to your friends. 1 Kind to vour enemies. He kind to the young. rt th old. He-kind to vour He rulers. He kind to your servants. Ha kind to vour superiors. lie kind to vour inferiors. He kind to your horse. rV X A-A V4 .w - - ' lie kind to your cat. -Morning, noon tii-r'it be kind, ana the effects of it will" be written in the language of . your xacc. That is the Gospel oi pnys- A Havonne mercnam m mc south of Europe for his health, and sitting on the terrace one morning- in r al j Ills invalidism, he saw a rider flung j from a horse into the river, and with out thinking of his own weakness, the merchant flung off his invalid's gown and leaped in to the stream and swam to the drowning man, and clutching him as he was a bout to go down the last time, bore him in safely to the bank, when glancing into the face of ! the rescued man, he cried: "My Godl I have saved my own sonl" All kind ness comes back to us in one way or another if not in any other way then in your own face. Kindness! Show it to others, for the time may come when you will need it your self. People laughed at the lion be cause he spared the mouse that ran over him, when by one motion of his paw the monster could have crushed the insignificant disturber. - Hut it was well that the lion had mercy on the mouse, for one day the lion was caught in a trap and roared fearfully because he was held fast by ropes. Then the mouse gnawed off the ropes and let the lion go free. You may con , sider yourself a lion, but you can not afford to despise a mouse. When Abraham Lincoln pardoned a young soldier at the re quest of his mother the mother went down the stairs of the White House saying: "The3r have lied about the president's being homely; he is the handsomest man I ever saw." All over that president's rugged faca was writ ten the kindness which he so well il lustrated when he said: "Some of our generals complain that I impair disci pline and subordination in the army by pardons and respites, but it makes me rested after a hard day's work if I can find some good ex cuse for saving a man's life, and I go to bed happier as I think how joyous the si rning of my name will make him and his family." Kindness! It makes the face to shine while life lasts, and alter death puts a summer sunset be tween the still lips and the smoothed hair that makes me say sometimes at obsequies: "She seems too beautiful to bury." , Hut here comes another chisel, and its naine is hj'pocrisy. Christ with one terrific stroke in His Sermon on the Mount described this character: "When ye fast be not as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance; for they disfigure their faces that they may appear unto men to fast." Hypocrisy having taken possession of the soul it immediately appears in the countenance. Hypo crites are always solemn. They car ry several country graveyards in their faces. They, are tearful when there is nothing to cry about, and in their prayers they catch for their breath, and have such general dole ful ness that they disgust young people with religion. Ween had one of them in one of my churches. When he exhorted he always deplored the low state of re ligion in other people, and when he prayed it was an attack of hysteria, and he went into a paroxysm of ohs and ahs that . seemed to demand resuscitation. He went on in this way until we had to expel him from church for stealing the property entrusted to him as administrator, and for other vices that I will not mention, and he wrote me several letters not at all compli mentary from the west saying that he was daily praying for my everlasting destruction. A man can not have hypocrisy in his heart without some how showing it in his face. All intel ligent people who witness it know it is nothing but a dramatization. Here comes another cfcisel, and that belongs to the old-fashioned religion. It first takes possession of the whole soul, washing out sins by the blood of the Lamb and starting Heaven right there and then. This done deep down in he heart, religion "Now let me go up to the dows and front gate of the says: have and set up some signal that I taken possession of this castle. I will celelrate the victory by an illumina tion that no one can mistake. I have made this man happy, and now I will make him look happy. I will draw tle corner of his mouth as far up as they were drawn down. I will take the contemptuous curl away from the lip and nostril. I will mr.ke his eyes flash and his cheeks' glow a! every mention of Christ and-Heaven. I will make even the wrinkles of his face look like furrows plowed for the harvests of joy. I will make what we call the "crow's feet around his temples sug gestive that the dove of peace has been alighting there." The.-e may be signs of trouble on that face, but trouble sanctified. There may be scars of bat tle on that face, but they will be scars of campaigns won. Tint I nn tiT I von of a. Trior svmna thetic and more tender and more lor- J " " mentioned. "No, you can not," says j someone. I can and I wilL It is the ' face of Jesus Christ as He was on earth ! and is know in Heaven. W hen pre paring my "Life of Christ," entitled "From Manager to Throne." .1 ran- J sacked the ' art gfleri 'and , folios of the world to find a piotura of our Saviour's face thai might W most expressive, and I saw it a Francesco Francia painted It la tha sixteenth century, and as the amarald intaglio of the sixth century praacatad It, and as a fresco in the catacomb near Rome preserved it, and at Leonardo Da Vinci showed it in "The Last flap per," and I looked in. the Loarra aad the Luxembourg and the Vatican aad the Dresden and the Berlin and Nea politan and London galleries for the most inspiring face of Christ, aad many of the presentations wera wonderful for pathoa and maja ty, and power, and exeoutica, but although I selected that by Axy , Scheffer as in some respecta tbavaoeV expressive, I felt, as we all TeeL that our Christ has never yet been preeentexi either in sculpture or painting, aad that we will hare to wait anil! we riae to the upper palace, where we shall eea Him as He is. What a gsntle face it must have been to induce tbe babes to struggle out of their mothers' arxaa into His armsl What an expressive face it must have been when one re proving look of it threw stalwart Pete into a fit of tears! What a plead ing face it must have been to lead the Psalmist in prayer to aay of it: "Look upon the face of Thine anointed, What a sympathetic face it munt hare been to encourage the sick woman, whs was beyond any help of the doctors, to touch the hem oi His garment! What a suffering face it mutt hare been when suspended on the perpendicular and horizontal pieces of the wood of martyrdom, and His antagonist slapped the pallid cheek with their rough hands, and befouled it with the) saliva of their blasphemous lipsl What a tremendous face it must have been to lead St. John to describe it in the coming judgment as scattering the uni verse, when He says: "From whose face the earth and the Heaven fled away. Oh, Christ! Once the Nazareae, bat now the Celestial! Once of cross, bat now of throne! Once crowned with stinging bramble, bat now eoroneted with the jewels of ransomed empires! Turn on us Thy. pardoning lace aad forgive us; Thy sympathetic face aad console us; Thy. suffering f&o aad have Thy atonement avail for a Thy omnipotent face and reeeaa us. Oh, what efface! So lacerated, so resplendent. wheimingly glorious that the eeraphiat, put wing to wing, and with their sens bined pinions keep off some af the Vaster that is too mighty eren for eyca chcrov bic or archangelic; and yet &"4nct2 jj turning upon us with a sheathed epao dor like that with whieh E sppaared when He said to the mothers bashful about presenting their children: 1 fer them to come; and to the waif of the street. "Kelther do I demn thee;" and to the eyes of the Mind beggar of the wayside: "Be opened.' I think my brother" John, tTaa returned foreign missionary, dyinff summer before last at Boaad , Brook, caught a glimpse ' of that face of Christ when in bis dy lag hour my brother said: "I shall he) satisfied when I wake in His likeness. And now unto Him that lore as, aad washed us from our sins ia Hie owa blood, and-hath made as kings aad priests unto Ood and Uia Father,' to Him be glory and dominion, forever and ever, Amen and Amen! Ament Are you willing to take weight and measures to the judgment with you? FAITH. I was !n a crowded depot not long ago. A dozen trains were on there respective tracks. Hundreds of pas sengers were jostling each other in heir haste to get tickets or baggage checks. Everybody was moving, pusLig. hurrying, worring. But In one corner of the ladies room sat a little girl looking calmly on that acenex of confusion. I stid to bsr. -Why are you so quiet my cbildf Hare you reached the end your journeyr MOh, no." she replied, "we am iomg aav down into Texas, bat 'a'-her to d me to sit here while be attended to the tickets and haggage. If that chi d bad not trusted her fa. her sb would, have been running to aid fro adding confusion aad to Ids anxiety. By her quietness site stMiwcd her faith. To sti s.ill and rit i the widest thing she could Io, And it i fu?ii o wi h as O k l.-nw-iily FaU r etrs fw ns.j He wilia t?id lo ihelickets a-.dba-jH2e. Ufc !! ruake all thr gs wufk . uei: e Tor hh1 t lucm f ai lovo lim. And if e love Him we must trust Hiin The Occident. i
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