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Clerk of the Superior Court of Hyde County. Sol EXTOL THE VIRTUES. AND COVER THE FAULTS, SAYS REV. I DR. TALMAGE. A Great Sermon on the Art of Friendship. The Man That Hath Friend 31 a t Show Ilimself Friendly Five Sermons In Ev ery Healthy llandahake. I -- . Copyright. 1333, by American Pres3 Asso : elation. i"WAsmxGTOv Septal. The obtain ing cf good friends, which most look npon as a matter cf happy accident, Dr. Talinage in this sermon shows to bo a matter of intelligent selection; Itest, Proverbs xviii, 24, "A man that hath friends must show himself friendly." About the eacred and divine art of making and keeping friends I rpeak 6nbjoct on which I never heard cf any one preaching and yet God thought it of; enough importance to pat it in the middle of the Bible, these writings of Solomon, bounded on one side by the popular psalms of David and on 'the other by' the writings of Isaiah, the greatest of the prophets. It seems all a matter of haphazard how many friends we have or whether we have any friends at all, but there is nothing accidental about it." There is a law which governs the accretion and dispersion of friend ships. They did not "just happen so" any moro than tho tides just happen to rise or fall, or the sun just happens to rise or set It is a science, an art, a God given regulation. Tell mo how friendly you aro to oth ers, and I will tell you how friendly others aro to you. I do not say yon will not have enemies. Indeed, the best way to get ardent friends is to Lave ar dent enemies if you get their enmity iu doing tho right thing. Good men and women will always' have enemies, be cause their goodness. is a perpetual re buke to evil, but this antagonism of foes will mako more intense the love of your adherents. Your friends will gath er closer around you because of the at tacks of your assailants. Tho more your enemies abuse you the bettar your coad jvtoytf Will tkink ml yon. the best friendi we bavoter had ap peared at soma juncture when we were especially bombarded. There have been times in ray life when unjust assault multiplied my friends, as near as I could calculate, about 0 a minute. Yon aro bOTind to some people by many cords that neither time nor eternity can break, and I will warrant that many of those cords were twisted by hands ma evolent. Human nature Was shipwreck ed about 59 centuries ago, the captain of that craft, ono Adam, and his. .first mate running f ho famous carpco aground on : a snaz in! the river Hiddekel, but there was. at least one good trait of hu man nature that waded safely - ashore from that shipwreck, and that is the disposition to take the part of those mi airly dealt with. When it is thorough- y demonstrated that some one is. being persecuted, although at the start slan derous tongues were busy enough, de fenders finally father around as thick as honevbee9 on a trellis of bruised honeysuckle. If, when set upon by the furies, you can have graco enough , to keep your mouth shut and preserve your equipoiso and let others fight your battles, you will find yourself after awhile with a whole cordon of allies. Had not the world uiven to Christ on his arrival at Palestine a very cold shoulder, there would not have been one-half as many angels chanting glory out of the hymn books of tho sky,1 bound in black lids of midnight. Had it not been for the heavy and jagged and tortuous cross, Christ would not have been ' the admired and loved of moro peoplo than any. being who ever touched foot on cither the eastern or western hemisphere. Instead, therefore, of giving up in despair be cause you have enemies, rejoice in the fact that they rally for you the most helpful and enthustiastic admirers. In other words, there is no virulence that can hinder my text from coming . true, A man that hath friends must show himself friendly." . It is my ambition to project especial ly upon the young a thought which may benignly ahape their destiny for the here and the hereafter. Before you show Yourself friendly you must be friendly. I do not recommend, a dram atized geniality. There is such a thing aa pretending to bo en rapport with oth ers when we are their dire destructants and talk against them and wish them calamity. Judas covered up his treach err bv a resoundinff kiss, and caresses may be demoniacal. Better the mytho logical Cerberus, the three headed dog of hell, barking at us, than the wolf in sheep's clothing, its brindled hide covered ' nn by deceptive wool - and its deathful howl cadencd into an inno cent bleating. Disraeli writes cf Lord Manfred, who, after committing many outrages upon the people, seemed sud denly to become friendly and invited tka to kaaiMt. iftw ttfiiof tt otureet of feed ba4 toc& tarred he blew a horn, wkich was in tho6e -times a sig nal for the servants to bring on tho des sert, bat in this case it was the signal for assassins to cater and slay the guests. Ilii pretended friendliness was a cruel fraud, and there are now people whoso smile is a falsehood. One Unsft Be Frrendly. Before you begin to show yourself friendly you must be friendly. Get your heart right with God and man, and this grace will become easyv You may by your own resolution get your nature into a semblance of this virtue, but the graco of God can sublimely lift you in to it. Sailing on the river Thames two vessels ran aground. The owners of one got 100 horses and pulled on the grounded ship and pulled it to pieces. The owners of the other grounded ves sel waited till the tides came in, and easily floated the ship out of all trou ble. So we may pull and haul at our grounded human nature and try to get Kit into better condition, but tnere is nothing like the oceanio tides of God s uplifting grace. If when under the flash of the Holy Ghcetwe see am own foibles and defects and depravities, we will be very lenient and very easy with others. We will look into their charac ters for things commendatory and not damnatory. It you would rub your own eye a lijtle mere vigorously, you would find a mote in it, the extraction of which would keep you so busy you would not havs much time to shoulder your broadax and go lortn to split up the beam in your neighbor's eye. In a Christian spirit keep.pn exploring the characters of those yea meet, and! am sure you will "find scrrc thing in them fittor a foundation of friendliness. You invite me to come to your conn try seat and spend a few days. Thank you! I arrive about noon of a beautiful summer day. What do you do? As soon as I arrive yea tto me out under the shadow of the great elms. You take nra f.own to the artificial lake,-the spotted trout floating in and out among the white pillars, of the pond Jilies. You take me to the stalls and kennels where you keep your fine stock, and here are tho Durham cattle and the Gordon set ters, and the high stepping ; steeds, by pawing and neighing, the only language they can speak, asking for harness or saddle and a short turn down the road. Then we go back to the house, and you get me in the right light and show me the Kensetts and the Bierstadts on the wall and take me into the music room and show me the birdcages, the cana ries in the bay window answering the robins in the tree tops. Thank you I I never enjoyed myself more in the same length of time. Now, why do we not do so with the characters of others, and show tho bloom and the music and the bright fountains? Noo We say : ' ' Come along, and let me show you that man's character. Here is a green scummed frog .pond, and there's a filthy cellar, and I guess under that hedge there mast . bo a black snake. Come, and let us for an hour or two regale ofcrselves with the nuisances. , I Extol the Ylrttxe. Qhjniy frtrnds, better cover up the faults-and extol, the virtues, and this habit i one estaWished cf universal fricadfiaeza.trill bcxn4 &4 easy as it is for 6 syringa to flood thee air with sweetness, a3 easy as it will be further on in the season for a quail to whistle up from the grass. When we hear some thing bad about scare body whom we always supposed to be good, take out yonr lead pencil and say: "Let me seej Before I accept that baleful story against that man's character I will take off from it 25. per cent for the habit of ex aggeration which belongs to the man who first told the story. Then I will take off 25 per cent for the ' additions which the spirit of gossip n every com munity has put upon the original story. Then I will take off 25-per cent from the fact that the man may, have been put into circumstances of overpowering temptation. So I have taken off 75 pejr cent. But I have not heard, his side of the story at all, and for that .reason I take off tho remaining 25 per cent. Ex cuse me, sir, l-don t believe a word oi it." , ''..'. But here comes in a defective maxim, so oiten quoted, " w nere mere is so much smoke there must be some fire." Look at all the smoke for years around Jenner, the .introducer of vaccination, and the, smoke around Columbus, the discoverer, and the smoke around Mar tin Luther, and Savonarola, and Galilei, and Paul, and John, and tell'me where was the fire. That is one of the satamo arts to make smoke withont fire. Slan der like the world, may be .made out, of nothing. If the Christian, fair mind ed, commonsensical spirit in regard to others predominated in the world, we. should have the millennium in about six weeks, for would hot that be lamb and lion, caw and leopard, lying down together? Nothihg'but the grace of God can ever put us into sucn a naDic oi mind and heart as that. The tendency is in the opposite direction. "This is the way the world talks: I put my name on the back of a man's note, and I had to pay it, and I will never again put my name on the back of any man's note.; gave a beggar 10 cents, and five minutes after Psaw him entering a liquor store to spend it I will never again give a cent to a beggar. I helped that young man start in business. &hd, lo, after awhile he came and opened a store al most next door to me and stole my cus tomers. I will never again help a young man to start in business. I . trusted in what my neighbor promised to do, and he broke his word, and the psalmist was right before he corrected himself. for "all men are liars."' So. men become suspicious, and saturnine and selfish, and at every additional wrong done tbem they put another layer on the wall of their excluslveness and another bolt to the door that shuts them out from sympathy with the world. They get cheated out of - $1,000,. or misinter preted, or disappointed, or betrayed; and higher goes the wall, and faster goes another bolt, not realizing thai while they lock etheM eo4 fcfeay look tlrrexoeeivM in, ad aom day &07 &fc up tto una tnemseives unprrsonea in a dastardly habit No .friends to others, others are no friends to them. There's an island half way between England, Scotland and Ireland, called the Isle of Man, and the seas dash against all sides of it, and I am told there is bo more lovely place than that Isle of Man, but when a man becomes insular m his dis position and cuts himself off from the main land of the world's sympathies he is despicable, and all around him is an Atlantic ocean of selfishness. Behold that Isle of Man! Sermons In Healthy Hands. - . Now, supposing that you have, by a divine regeneration, got right toward God and humanity, and you start out to practice my text. "A man that hath friends must show himself friendly." Fulfill thi3 by all forms of appropriate salutation. Have you noticed that, the head is so poised that the easiest thing on earth is to give a nod of recognition? To swing the head from side to side, as when it is wagged in derision, is un natural and urjpleasant; to throw it back, invites vertigo, but' to drop the chin in greeting' is accompanied with so little exertfon that all day long and. every day, you might practice it with out the least semblance of fatigue. So also the structure of the hand indicates : handshaking: the knuckles not made so that the- fingers can, turn out, but so ' tnada that the fin tr, i i clasping hands, and the thumb divided from and set aloof from the fingers, so that while the fingers take, your neigh bor's Band on one side, the thumb take3 it On the other and pressed together, all the faculties of the hand give emphasis . to the salutation. Five sermons in every j healfby hand urge us to handshaking. f Besides ) this, , every day when you start out, joad yourself up with kind thoughts, kind words, kind expressions and kind greetings. When a man or woman does well," tell" him so, tll her so. If you meet some one who is im proved in health and it is demonstrated in girth and color, say, "How well ybu look I" But if, on the other hand, un der the wear and telarof'life he appears pale and exhausted, do not , introduce sanitary subjects; or say anything at all about! physical cbndiHon. In the I case of improved health, you have by your words given another impulse to- , ward the robust and the jocund, while in the cas of the j failing health you have arrested the decline by your si lence, by; which he concludes, "If I were really so badly off, he would have said something about it. " We are allx especially those of la nervous tempera ment, susceptible . to kind words and discouraging wordsl Form a conspiracy against us, and let ten men meet us at certain points on our way .over to busi ness and let each one say, "How sick you look!" though we should start out well, after meeting the first and hear ing his depressing salute, we would be gin to examine :phr symptoms. After meeting the second - gloomy accosting, we . would conclude we did not feel quite as well as usual. After meeting the third, pur snslrMons would be dreadful and after meeting the fourth, unless we suspected a mispiracy, wo would go home and go ia bed, and the Other six -egaskub-fcl Wu4 ton ln erurplna of disoetragenettl , Brightness TSoi Gloom.' j My dear sir, my dear madam, what do you mean by going abotrt this world with disfaeartenmeuts? Is not the sun- i rjly; of gloom and trouble and misfor- '.tune enough to meet the demand with- ; out your running a factory of pins and -P:Bpjkes? Why should you . plant black and blue in the world when God so sel dpm plants them? Plenty of scarlet col ors, plenty of "yellojw, plenty of green, plenty of pink, .but krery seldom a plant black or blue.! I neyer saw a black flow er, and there's . only here and there a bluebell or a.violetJ but the blue is for the most part reserved for the sy, and we i have to look up to see that, and when we look5 up' no color can do us harm. ."Why not plant along the paihs of others :the brightnesses instead of the glooms? ! ! ! Do not; propnesy misfortune, if you must be a prophet at all, be an' Ezekiel and not a Jeremiah. In ancient times prophets who foretold evil were doing right, for; they were divinely directed, but the prophets of evil in our time are generally !false prophets. ! Some of bur weatherwise people ' prophesied we would Have a summer of unparalleled heat. It has been a very comfortable summer. Last fall all the weather prophets agreed in saying we should have) a winter of extraordinary severity, blizzard on the. heels of' blizzard.. It was . the mildest winter lever remember to have passed. Indeed, the autumn and the spring almost shoved winter' out! of the procession. Real troubles have no heralds running, ahead of their somber chariots, and no one has any authority ih our time to announce their coming. Load yourself up with hope ful words and deeds. The hymn once sune in our churches is , unfit to be sung, for it says:', t . . - L We should suspect some danger near ! "Where we. possess delight. ' In other words, manage "to keep mis erable all the time. The oldong sung at the pianos a quarter of a century ago was r.ighV f'Kind words can never die. v Such kind; words have their nests in kind hearts, and when they are hatched out and take wing! they circle round in flights .thatneyer cease, and sportsman's gun cannot shoot them, and storms can not (ruffle their wings, and when they cease fliaht in , these lower skies of earth they sweep around amid the high er altitudes Of heaven. At Baltimore I talked into a phonograph. The cylii der ! containing the wordswas sent on to Washington, and the next day that eVImder frorri another nhonocraphrc in strument, when turned, gave back to toe the very words" I had Httered'the day before -and with'. tL jcame intona tions. Scold into j a phonograph, and it will scold back. Pom? mild wdrds into a . nhonoCTanh. and it will return the gentleaesa. Sodiety and the world and aewbiryaad tMatB, sad Wty and rough ! trtatmeHt, fan will get back. Give thern pracricoJ friendhnees, slid they will grve back practi g1 friend liness. A father asked his little gangs ter, "Mary, why la H that ererybody loves you?' SJi I answered, "I don't know unless it is because I love every body." "A man that hath friends must show himself friendly." ? ' First Sara My Friend. We want something like that spirit J of sacrifice f for others which was seen in the Ensrlish channel, where in the storm a boat containing three men was unset and all three were in the water strusrelins for their lives. A boat came to their relief, and a rope was thrown to one of them, and. he refused to take it. savins: '? First fling it to Tom. He is fust ready to go down, x can xaEi some time longer." A man like that be hesailor.br landsman, be he in up per ranks of society or lower.ranks, will always have plenty of friends. What is trud man ward is true Godwardv We must be the friends of God if we want him to be our friend, we cannot treat 1 , " - ' unnst badly all our lives and expect- him to treat us lovingly. I was read ing of a sea fight in which Lord Nelson raptured a French officer, and when the French officer offered Lord Nelson his band Nelson replied,' "First- give me your sword and then give me ' your hand." Surrender of x our resistance to God must precede God's proffer of par don to us. Kepentance before forgive ness. You must give up your rebellious rword before you can get a grasp of the Divine hand. , j Oh, what a glorious state of things to; have the friendship of God! .Why, we could afford to have all the world against us and all ether worlds against us if we had God for us. He could in a mjnuto blot out this universe, and in another minute make a better universe. I b.ave no idea that God tried hard wiien he made all things. The most brilliant thing known . to us is light ; and' for the creation of that he only; used a word of command. As out of a flint a frontiersman strikes a spark, so. -out of one word God struck the noon day sun. For the making of the present universe I do not read that God lifted so1 much as a finger. Tho Biblo fre quently speaks of God's hand and God's arm and God's shoulder and God's foot Then suppose he should put hand and ar4a and shoulder and foot to utmost tension, what could he not make?; That Grid of such demonstrated and undem onstrated strength you may have for your present and everlasting friend, not a stately and reticent' friend, hard to get at, but as approachable aa a coun try mansion on a summer day, when all ! the doors and windows are! wide open. Christ said, "I am the door." And he is-a wide door, a high door, a palace door, an always open door, t j- ; - No One to Cry To.- ' , My 4-ycar-old child got hurt and did not cry until hours after, when her mother came home, and then she burst into weeping, and some of the domes tics,' not understanding human nature, said to her, "Why did yon not Cry be fore?" Bhe answered, "There was no one to cry to." Now, I haA"e to tell you Coat vh4i fcaxm irytatfcy sryle aiy seirt divine sympathy to always accessi ble. Give God your love and get his love, your' service and securo his help, your repentance and have his pardon. God ft friend? Why, that means all your wounds medicate!, all yoar sor row soothed, and if some sudden catas- jtrophe should hurl you out of earth it would only hurl you into heayenJ , j If God is your friend, ypu cannot go out of the world. too quickly or sudden ly so far as your own happiness is concerned.- There vceretwo Christians who entered heaven. - The one was standing at a window, in perfect health, wash ing a shower,, and the Irghtning in-' stan fly, slew him, but the lightning did not flash down the sky as swiftly as his spirit flashed upward. The Christian man who died on , tho same day next .door had been for a year or two failing in health, and for the last three months had suffered from a disease that niado the nights sleepless and the. days an anguish. ; Do you not really think Jhat the case of the one who went instantly was more desirable than the one who entered the shining gate through a long lane of insomnia and congestion? In the one case it was like your standing wearily at a door, knocking and wait ing and wondering if it will ever open) and knocking and waiting again, while id the other case it was a swinging open of the j door. at . the first touch of your knuckle. Gife your friendship to God and have God'sfriendship for you, and .even the worst accident will bo a Victory.- V ' , ' l Value of Divine Friendship. How refreshing is human friendship, and true friends, what , priceless. treas ures! When.sickness comes and trouble comes and death comes, we send for our frrends first of all, and their appearance in our doorway in any crisis, is re-enforcement, and when they have enter ed, we say "Now it is all right!' Oh, what woukT we do without personal friends, business friends, family. friends? But we 'want something mightier than human .friendship in the I great exigencies.! When Jonathan Edwards, in his final hour, had given the last goodby to all his earthly friends,- he turned on his pillow and closed his eyes, confidently saying, "Now where is Jesus of Nazareth, my true and jnever failing PriendF' Yes, I admire human friendship as seen in the case of David and Jonathan, of Paul and Onesiphorus, of Herder and Goethe, of , Goldsmith and Reynolds, of Beaumont and Fletch er, of Crowley and Harvey, .of Erasmus and Thomas More, of Lessing and Men delsfiobi. of Lady Churchill and ' Prin cess Anne, of Orestes and Pyladesj each requesting that hknself night take the pbiaiof tl dagger,- so the other might be spared ; y.t Kpaminorrdas scud Peiopi- das, who .: ked their shields la battle, determine - to die together, . bat the grandfeet tie Klgataest.tJie tendere Ajm ;a Q aard befiaViDg ecnl. said,, I feel I. Yet. after alJ I have what have only dene James MarshalL the rarner, did in 1648 in Cnhfovfiia. before fi cola m ins Wtrt kaown. ' He reacaed lfl and put i Open the tabic of his employer, Captain Sutter a ihlmbiem . ct gold cast. 'Where did yon get that?" eaid his em- nlorer. The reply Was, "I got it this morning from a" mill raco from which the water had been drawn, off Bat that gold dust, which could have; been taken up , between the finger and the : thumb, was the prophecy and specimen that revealed California's wealth j to, all nations. And today I have only put be fore you a specimen of the value of di vine friendship, only a thimbleful of mines inexhaustible and infinite, though all time'and all eternity go on with the exploration. Katnral Irritation. Charlie May I hold your hand? Lucy Yes, if you like (short pause). Charlie May I have a kiss? -Lucy It strikes me that you live I from hand' to mouth. Town Topics. Croatia? tho Threshold. . Crossing tho threshold w;u and Is the most critical period of th wediling day with all races, not even excepting the Anglo-Saxon. , j The superstitious fears cf the many, always particularly alert on the occa sica of a marriage, culminato in this final act of tho drama; Tho lifting of tho bride over the threshold or her step ping across it is the signal in Pvria, Arabia and auiong tho Copts of Egypt for tho sacrifice of a! goat or a ahocp. Among ; the Aeneaev. according to Burckhardt, the bridegroom simply kills a lamb in front of his father in law's tent, and the otremony, but for the running of the brido from one tent to another, is complete. "Perhaps tho purest symbolical act is that of tho Transy Ivan ian Saxon bridal pair, who step over the threshold with their hands tied together. Some of theo Trausyl- vanian,. customs aro mnarkablo and must bo survivals from ! a very ancient ' period. The " bridcjrroorh never wears tho shirt made for him by tho brid-j ex cept on his wedding day and at hie burial, just ns the veil of ftho Japanese brld- becomes ono day her shroud.- London Spectator. .' ' ' r. . r ' Ilit'Onu 'C.orU. The vanity cf. n certain. well knmvm painter is .ridiculed in in fI'tv t I?l ofj him. It relates that tho ixiinter wajl tmveling in a train through, tho mocti tains, and as tue wiuucr was urmj and tho painter had iut had (iiunch sleep tho night l;eforo bi dozed in hil seat,' . . ; He had a traveling comp?r:)-ign, wbe " insisted upon" talking to 'hi in noverthe-' los. and a tho train 'par:! a Una proe- pect exclaimed: j . , . "Look, loc'kf Whrrt a lnut4ful Iand "Yep," grunted tho pnhitor, dream "shop" phrawv"I Youth's Coiuiu- ing, xmuX hcarinij a pnintexl it my self. ion. Cnntan Frlaw. I Por the whole of th 'rjuimious ad' ruiico hi tho tui(lilion of j the laboring ruan the hcslg was LUd, omce far eji y form bxk! In K (xirrtinulm clxxvtot of hujnan trhnn,' and t&e Hr moiVs by wlritJi it mof-t oonspicnouety ftsaevted Uclf in tho arduu prooeev ot social ngtuarntron wero first the graA nal eUratuai of weman and nt tk tmtiafcUdn Mid'"cvejtual abulkion ct slavery. -Gladstone. ' ! s In the Market. Mr. Duty Body- If you hang thoee turkeys by tho feet, you will keep them longer. - - - , Mr. Dntcher BusinessThat ain't what I'm trying to do t don't want to kecp'theni any lonyir I want to wil em Harlem Lifa Ijladsttnif! find M . ; A correspondent of, Tho - British "Weekly" tells tho: following htory rSla- tiye to Mr.- Gludstorft': "I was i driving ono autumn -evening' in a :cnnwyanco 'Which in' those' days twed to run from Lamlash to- King's Crows (Ihlandof Arran) when for any reason the late boat did not go round to Whiting bay. Sitting opposite me were two men who . appeared to belong to tho Paieley weav er class, and true to tho traditions of that d ass they were busily discussing polities. ; Presently ono of theni said, With much emphasis, 'Tbero hawm been a lawgiver equal to Mr. Gladstone since the days o Moses. ' Moses !' retorted the other. , 'Mostfl got tho law gien tao him frae tho Lord, but Mr. Gladstone .makg'lawg ont o' bis m'n h-jidt " Poor clothes cannot make you look old. Even pals cheeks won't do it. i . Tour household cares mar be heavy' and disappoint ments may be deep, f-but tbrev cannot make you took old. .','.- One thing does, it never fails. ...v, . I 1 It Is impossibla to ! look youhc with the color of seventy yars hi your hair." K bsbh?: i 25 permanently postpones the tell-tale signs of age. Used according to directions it gradually brings back the - color of youth. At fifty your hair may look as It did at fifteen. It thickens the hair also; stops it from falling out; and cleanses the scalp from dandruff. Shall- we send you our book oa the Hair and its Diseases? Thm Dot Advlca Fro. It you do not obUin all the hn- 1 V nti yon the VlKor Probably yoa expected from the nse of the VlKor, write the doctor snout it there la seroe ounce wanr tuniril arstem wbi bust eaaUy rumored. Ad ittiiUrrrn ored. Add rea.t, (DM si
The Weekly Economist (Elizabeth City, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Sept. 16, 1898, edition 1
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