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Scripture Lesson?Rev. 21:1-7, 10-17, 21-27.
Text, Rev. 21:16. "The City Lieth Foursquare."
(Continued from page 746.)
There are some men who will fully unbosom
themselves to their friends on every matter but
that of their business. They will talk religion,
politics, science and art; they will give you
their ideas on every question of the day. But
beware how you ask them about their religion
and morality as applied in their business. To
them it would be an unpardonable offense.
They would not have their business investigated.
They are like some housekeepers who keep yards,
hall and parlor neat and tidy and who are
glad to make you welcome there, but who would
not invite you into their kitchen, but would
resent it as a personal affront
if you were to try to
enter. Yet the place from I
which we eat ought to be H
clean! And our business is
the place from which we eat
The health officer may enter
your kitchen; the great
Judge will lay open your H
business in the day of eternal
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kitchen elean!
the south.
"On the south, three H
gates.'' The south is the side H
of the returning springtime, H
the side of the noonday's
warmth and beauty. So in
our lives there is needed the H
genial glow of cordial inter- flf
course, the encouraging, invigorating
stimulant of
mingling in the society of
others. Man is not created to
live as a hermit, wrapped in
the wilderness of his own mrs. dr. jam
thoughts and plans, but to
have neighbors and associates, comrades and
companions. The South shall represent society.
On the social side of our lives, the wall must
be unselfish Friendship. To seek friends merely
for the advantage they can be to ourselves,
-?x is mercenary and will fail in its higher
op. . privileges, the best development of a well built
_ character. The virtues of true Friendship have
been sung by heathen poets; much more should
' \l 3 en^^^ene<^ Christian build this wall of
__ pure, flawless crystal, gleaming with the
Ob* *> warmth of heartfelt interest and kindness.
"There is a friend that sticketh closer than a
brother." (Prov. 18:24). It is unfortunate
that in the stress of our modern civilization,
with its many demands and its complex organization,
so little time is left for the cultivation
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of the social side of life. We need this side of
the perfect city. It was the great charm in
which the days of the past excelled our own.
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into the living present, let each one, so much
as he has the opportunity, cultivate neighborly
intercourse and friendly associations.
Friendship, like the other walls of Life's
City, has its three gates of pearl. The first is
Sympathy, genuine and unassuming, but full
of the rays of kindly enquiry. The "best
society" at present recognized in many places
is but a sham and a counterfeit of the true
gold-built social side of life. Some press into
society to make a vain show of their wealth or
charms; piide leads them to the front and
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wreathes their lips with smiles of simulated interest.
Some are in society for the mere pleasures
of the passing hour with no wall of friendship
true and strong for the protection of their
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uuimauca m iiit; uuy ui gi'iei una caiuiiniy. a
friend loveth at all times." (Prov. 17:17).
The second needed gate in the wall of Friendship,
to add worth to its value and joy to its
comfort, is Appreciation. It is but a sign of
human nature and its censorious tendencies,
that the word criticize, which at first meant to
express judgment of excellence or of defect, now
is employed only of adverse opinions. We need
the grace of appreciation. Praise where it is
due yields rich reward both in the esteem of
our associates and in the service of our employees.
If you are looking for something to
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offer a friend that will be accepted with pleasure,
offer him some appreciation. Flattery is
contemptible and foolish, but genuine appreciation
is always appreciated.
The third gate on the social side of life is
Agreeableness. There are many people most
exemplary in their morals, upright in word and
deed, people who are of great value in the community
on account of their talents and labors,
who are shimned and avoided because of their
surly, bitter, whining, storming or contentious
ways. They lack the gate of Agreeableness,
and so miss half the power which they might
exert, half the joys which they might find.
Without this third gate much is shut out of
our daily income, and we are not counted at
our true value by others.
Who of your friends do you
like the best? Is it not those
who are the most Sympathetic,
Appreciative, and
Agreeable ? Probably
others are judging you
by these same standards.
Put in all these gates, and
see that each is a single
pearl; they cannot be made
of "wood and hay and stubChoose
the friends of your
social life not by the lines
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Hoi ciass or station already
drawn in any community.
Choose them each one on account
of real worth and eongeniality
to yourself. There
are many whom you must
meet in business, on the
north side of the city, and
?? many whom you should help
as a religious duty, on the
IG CHILDREN east, that you should not admit
into the south in the
close comradeship of friends who are also
to be companions. Let neither wealth nor
birth be the key which shall admit to your
friendship; these are advantages for development
and service, not marks of superiority.
Politeness and all the rules of etiquette have
their value as established forms of action or
speech, but they do not in themselves make
the lady or the gentleman. Let your courtesy
and consideration for those around you be, not
a thin veneer that may easily be broken off,
but of solid purpose, word and act, sound to
the very heart.
THE WEST.
"And on the west, three gates." The west
is the side of the setting sun. The hours of
burden and heat are passed and the cool of the
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