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DIRECTORY,
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". 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.
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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.
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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.
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IV.stor
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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.
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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.
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j iujans alighted. They are Christ re-.
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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.
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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-
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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.
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