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f THK LEDGER: GAFFJiEY, S. C., SEPTEMBER 15, 1898. EXTOL THE VIRTUES. WD COVER THE FAULTS, SAYS REV. DR. TALMA&E. A r?re«t 5»-rn>on on tin* Art of li'riotxtahlp. >Hlu* Man That Hath Friend* .tluat Khow Hlmaelf Friendly—Five Sermon* In K\*- ery 11<»U1ij Uandahake. tCopyrruht, 1S98, by Aroerk'an Pr<'«s Asso- cUvtKm.] Washikoton, St»pl. 11.—Tbo pbtain- iug of gfxxl friuids, which sm^t look tipon as a matter of happy accident, Dr. Talmago in this sermon shows to be a matter of intelligent selection; text, Proverbs xtiii, 24, “A man that hath friends must show himself friendly.” About the sacred and divine art of making and keeping'friends I speak—a ssbject on which' I never heard of any cue preaching—and yet God thought it of enough importance to put it in the middle of the Bible, these writings of Solomon, bounded on ene side by the popular psalms of David and on the other by the writings of leuiah, the greatest of the prophets. It sewns all a matter of haphazard'bow 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 Imppen so” any more than the tides jnt$ happen to rise or fall, or the sun just'happens to rise nr set. It is a science, an art, a God given regulation. Tell me how friendly you are to oth ers, and 1 will tell you how friendly others are to you. I do not £ay you will not have enemies. Indeed, the best way to get urdem friends is to have ar dent enemies if you get their enmity in doing the 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 fees will ma$i more intense the Jove of your adherents. Your friends will gath er closer around you because of the at tacks of your assailants. The more your euemioLAbusc you tho bolter your coad jutors v/m think of you. Usjuat AMttttUlt Frk*u«V.. The beist friends we have ever had ap peared <jt some juncture when we were especially bombarded. There have been times in my life whqu unjust assault multiplied my friends, as near as I could calculcfce, about 50 a minute. You an: bound to some people by many cords that Neither time nor ekernWy can break, and I will warrant that many of those cords were twisted by bauds ma levolent. Human nature was shipwreck ed about 59 centuries ago, the captain of that craft, one Adam, and his first mate running the famous cargo aground on a snag in tho river Hiddekel, but there was at least one gvxxl trait of hu man nature that waded safely ashore fpein that shipwreck, and that is the disposition to take the part of those un fairly dealt with. When it is thorough ly demonstrated that some one is being persecuted, although at the start slan derous tongues were busy enough, de fenders finally gather around as thick as honeybees cu a trellis of bruised honeysuckle.' If, when set upon by the furies, yo» can have grace enough to keep your mouth shut and preserve your equipoise and let others tight your battles, you will And yourself after awhile with a whole cordon of allies. Had not the world given 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 the sky, bound in black lids of midnight. Had it not been for the heavy and jagged and tortuous cross, Christ would not kayo teen the admired and loved of more people than any being who ever touched foot on either 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 euthustiastic admirers. In other words, there is no virulence that can hinder my text from coming true, “A man that hath friends must ahow himself friendly.” It is my ambition to project especial ly upon the young a thought which may benignly shape 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 as prsteudiug to been rapport with oth era when we are their dire destructants and talk against them and wish them calamity. Judas covered up his treach ery by a resounding kiss, and caresses may be demoniacal. Better the my tho logical Cerberus, the three headed dog of bell, barking at us, than the wolf in shea’s clothing, its brindled bide covered up by deceptive wool and its deathful howl cadenped into mi inno cent bleating. Disraeli writes of Lord Manfred, who, after committing many outrages upon the people, seemed sud denly to become friendly and iuvifed them to a bouquet After most of tbe courses of food had been served he blew a born, which was in those times a sig nal for the servants to bring on the des sert but in this case it was the signal for assassins to enter and slay the guests. His pretended friendliness was a cruel fraud, and there are now people whose smile is a falsehood. On* Most B* Friendly. Before you begin to show yourself friendly you must be friendly. Get your heart right with Ood and man, and this grace will become easy. You may by your own resolution get your nut ere into a sembiauoa of this virtae, but the grace of Ood ran sublimely lift you in to it Hailing on tbe 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 ensily floated the ship oat of all trou- bio. So we may pull and haul at our ^grounded human^ature and try to get it into better condition, but there is nothing like the oceanic tides of God’s uplifting grace. If when under tbe flftsh of the Holy Ghost-wc see our own to’bleu usd defects and depravities, we will be very lenient,and very easy with others. Wo will look into their charac ters for things commendatory and not damnatory. If yon would rub your own eye a little more vigorously, you would find a mote in it, tbe extraction of which would beep you so busy you would iiot|h;we much time to shoulder your lirnadax and go forth to split up the beam .in your neighbor’s eye. In a Christian spirit keep on expioriag the characters of those yop meet, and I am sure you will find something in them 5t for a foundation of friendliness. You invito me to come to your couu- ;ry seat and spend a few days. Thank you! I arrive abont noon of a beautiful summer day. What do you do? As soon as I arrive you take mo out under the shadow of tl* great elms. You take me down to the artificial lake, tbe spotted trout floating in and out among the white pillans of the pond JCies. Y*ou take me to tho stalls and kennels where you ifrep your fine stock, and here are the Durham cattle and the Gordon set ters, and fie* high stepping steeds, by pawing and neighing, the only language they can speak, asking for harness or saddle aad a short turn down the road. Then w« go hack to the house, and you aet ire in the right light and show me tho Kcusetts and the Bierstadts on tho wall and tube me into the music nxun and ehcrw me tho birdcages, thp cana ries in the bay window answering the robins in tIk: tree tops. Thank you! I never enjoyed myself more in the sirrao length of time. Now, why do we not do so with the characters of others, and show tbe bloom and the music and the bright fountains? No. We say: “Como 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 imAt bo a black snake. Como and let us for itu hour or two regale ourselves with tbe nuisauoes. ” Kxtol tho Vlrtnon. Oh, my friends, better cover up the faults and extol tbe virtues, and this habit onoe established of universal friendIrnees will bexome as easy as h is for a syringa to flood the air with swoetm'ss, as easy as it will bo further on % iu nie season for a quail to whistle up from tbe grass. When we bear some thing bad about somebody whom we always supplied to be good, take out your lead pencil and say: “Let me see! Defuse 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 t«bu off 25 per oent for the additions which the spirit of gossip in every com munity has put upon the original story. TJmhi I will fake off 25 per cent from the fact that the man maf' have boon put into ciromnstances of'overpowering temptation. So I Imve taken ckf 75 per cent. But I have not heard his side of the story at all, and for that reason I take off the remaining 25 per cent.’ Ex cuse me, sir, I don’t believe a word of it.” But'here comes in a defective maxim, so oftfn quoted, “W^iere there is so much'smoke there must be some fire.” Look at aJJ the smoke for years around Jenuor, tm? introducer of vaccination, and the smoke around Columbus, the discoverer, and tire smoke around Mar tin Luther, and Savonarola, and Galilei, and Paul, and John, and tell mo whore was the fire. That is one of the satauio arts to make smoke without fire. Slan der, like the world, may be made out of nothing. If tho Christian, fair mind ed, common sen si cal spirit in regard to others predominated in the world, wo should have the millennium i« about six weeks, for would not that be lamb and lion, cow and leopard, lying down together? Nothing but the grace >f God can ever put us into such a nabit of mind and heart us that. The tendency is in the opposite direction. This is the way the world talks: I put my name on tho back of a man’s note, and I had to pay it, and 1 will never again put my name on the back of any man’s note. I gave a beggar 10 cents, and five minutes after I saw him entering a liquor store to spend it. I will never again give u cent to a beggar. I helped that young man start in business, and, 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 woriq .and tbe psalmist was right before he corrected himself, for “all men are liars.” So men become suspicious and saturnine and selfish, and ut every additional wrong done them they put another layer on the wall of their exclusiveness and another bolt to tbe 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, uot realizing- that while they lock others out they look themselves in, and some day they wake up to find themselves imprisoned in a dastardly habit. No friends to others, others are no friends to them. There’s an island half wag between England, Scotland and Ireland, called the Isle of Man, and tbe seas dash against all sides of it, and I am told there is no more lovely place than that Isle of Man, but when a man becomes insular in bis dis position and outs himself off from tbe main laud of the world's sympathies he is despicable, and all acound him is an Atlantic ocean of aalflsbuoss. Behold that Isle of Man! Sermon* Id Health/ Hand*. Now, supposing that you have, by a divine regeneration, got right toward God and humanity, and you start out tp practice my text. “A man that hath friends must show himself friendly.” Fulfill this by all forms of appropriate salutation. Have you noticed that tbe bead is so poised that tbe easiest thing on earth is to give a nod of recognition? To swing tho head from side to side, as whsivit is wagged In derision, is un natural and unpleasant; to throw it back, invites,vertigo, but to drop the ! chin in greeting is accompanied with so little exertion that all dayJoug^ud every day. you might practice it with- 1 out the least semblance of fatigue. So also the structure of the hand indicates huiKfchaking; yp knuckles not madu so ! that the lingers can turn out. hut so made that the fingers can turn in, as in clasping hands, and the thumb divided from and set aloof from the fingers, so that while the fingers take your neigh- | bur's hand oirame side, thy thumb takes it 04i the otuCT and pressed together, all the faculties of tho hand give emphasis to the salutation. Five sermons in every healthy hand urge us to handshaking. , Besides this, every day when you start out, load yourself up with kind thoughts, kind words, kind expressions and kind greetings. When a man or woman does well, tell him so, tell her ho. If you meet some one who is im proved it) health and it is demonstrated in jArth nn/1 color, say, “How well you look!” But if. on the other hand, un der the wear and tear of life he appears pale and exhausted, do not introduce sanitary subjects, or say anything at all about^ physical condition. In tbe case of improved health, you have by your words given another impulse to- 1 ward the robust and the jocund, while : in the case of tbe failing health you have arrested the decline by your si lence, by which he oonclndes, “If I were really so badly off, he would have j said something about it. ” We are all, | especially those of a nervous tympera- j ment, susceptible to kind words uml discouraging words. Form a'couspirucy I against us, and let ten men meet us at ; certain points on onr way over to busi- I ness and let eadi one say. “How sick , you look!” though we should start out ' well, after meeting tho first and hear ing his depressing salute, we woukbbe- gin to examine our symptoms. After meeting the second gloomy aooo«ting, we would conclude we did uot feel quite as well as usual. After meetiiiyV’ the uhird, onr sensations would be ) dreadful and after meeting the fourth, i unless we suspected a conspiracy, we I would go home tvnd go to bed, and the other six pessimists would bo a useless surplus of discouragement. Hri^htoem Not Gloom. My de;sr sir, my dear madam, what j do you mean by going about this world with disbvarteuments? Is uot the sup- j ply of "gloom and troulde ami roisfor- ' tune enough to meet tbe dentund with out your running a factory of pins and spikes? Why should you plant black and blue in the world when God ho sel dom plants them? Plenty of scarlet col-; ors, plenty of yellow, plenty of green, plenty of pink, but very seldom a plant black or blue. I never saw a black flow er, and there's enly here and there a bluebell or a violet, but the blue is for tile moat part reserved for the sity, and we have to look up to see that, nnd when we look up no color can do us har«. Why uot plant along the paths of enhers the brightnesses instead of the glooms? Do not prophesy misfortune. If you must be a prophet at all, be au Ezekiel and not a Jeremiah. In ancient times prophets who foretold evil wore doing j right, for they were divinely directed, | but the prophets of evil in our time are generally false prophets. Some of our weutbkHwise people prophesied we would have a summer of unparalleled bent. It Las been a very comfortanlo summer. Last fall all the weather prophets agreed in saying we should have u winter of extraordinary severity, blizzard on the heels of blizzard. It was the mildest winter lever remember to have passed. Indeed, the autumn aid 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 in our time to announce their coming. Load yourself up with hope ful words and deeds. The hymn once song in dur churches is unfit to be sung, for it says: MV xhould HUHpec. some daitgtr near Whore wo possess delight. In other words, manage to keep mis erable all the time. The old song sung at the pianos a quarter of a oentury ago was right, “Kind words can never die. ” Such kind words have their nests in kind hearts, and when they are hatched out and take wiug they circle round in flights that never cease, and sportsman’s gun cannot shoot them, and storms can not ruffle their wings, and when they cease flight in these lower skies of earth they sweep around amid tbe high er altitudes of heaven. At Baltimore I talked into a phonograph. The cylin- dei containing tbe words was sent on to Washington, and tbe next day that cylinder from another phonographic in strument, when turned, gave back to me the very words I had uttered tbe day before and with the same intona tions. Hoold into a phonograph, and it will scold back. Pour mild words iato a phonograph, and it will return tbe gentleness. Society and tbe world and the churcn are phonographa. Give them acerbity and rough treatment, and acer bity and rough treatment yon will get back. Give them practical friendliness, and they will give back practical friend- linens. A father asked his little daugh ter, “Mary, why is it that everybody loves you?” She answered, “I don’t know unless it is because I love every body.” “A man that hath friends must show himself friendly. ” Vint Save My Frltfbd. We want something like that spirit of sacrifice for others which was seen in tbe English channel, where in the ■tonu a boat containing three men was upaat, and all three we*e in the water struggling for their lives. A boat came to their relief, and a rope was thrown to one of them,'■and be refused to take it, saying: “First fling it to Tom. He is just ready to go down. I can last some time longer.” A man like that, be he ailor or landsman, be he in up per ranks of society or lower ranks, will always have plenty of friends. What is true mauward is true Godward. We must be the friends of God if wo want him to be our friend. We oannot treat Christ badly all our lives and expect him to treat uh lovingly. 1 was read me of a sea fight in which Lord Nfe.nn captures! a French officer, and when the French, officer offered Lord Nelson his hand Nelson replied, “First give me your sword and thva give me your hand.” Surrender of onr resistance to God must precede God’s proffer of par don to us. Repentance before forgive ness. You must give up your rebellious sword before you eau get a grasp of the Divine band. 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 other worlds against us if we had God for us. He could in a minute Not out this universe, and in another minute make a better universe. I have no idea that God tried hard when he made all things. Tho most brilliant thing known to ns is light, aud for the creation of that he only used a word of command. As out of a flint a froutiersmau strikes a spark, so out of one word God struck the noon day sun. For the making of the present universe I do uot read that God lifted so much as a finger. Tho Bible fre- qoeiitly speaks of God’s hand and God’s arm and G'kI’.s shoulder aud God’s foot. Then suppose he should put hand aud arm and shoulder aud foot to utmost tension, what could he not make? That God of such demonstrat. d and undem- onstrated strength you may have for your present and everlasting friend, uot a svntoly and reticent friend, hard to get at. hut as approachable as a coun try mansion on a summer day, when all the doors and windows are wide open. Christ sa d, “I am the door.” And ho is a wide door, a high door, a palaco door, an always open door. No One to Cry To. My 4-yoar-o!d child got hurt and did not cry until hours after, when her mother cause home, tnd then she burst into weeping, aud some of the domes tics, not understanding human nature, said to her, “Why did you uot cry be fore?” She ajiswered, “There was no one to cry to.” Now, I have to tell you that while human sympathy may be ab sent divine sympathy is always accessi ble. Give God your love and get his love, your service and secure his help, your repeutance aud have his pardon. God u friend: Why, that means all upur wound* medicated, all your sor- soothed, and if some sudden catas trophe should hurl you out of earth it would (.tily horizon into heaven. If God is your friend, you cannot go out of the world too quickly or sudden ly ho far as your own happiness is con cerned. There were two Christians who entered heaven. The one was standing at a window in perfect health, watch ing a shower, nnd the lightning in stantly slew him, but the lightning did uot flash down the sky as swiftly us his spirit flashed upward. The Christian man who died on the same day next door had been for a year or two failing in health, and for the lust throe mouths had suffered from a disease that made the nights sleeplees aud the days an anguish. Do you not really think that the mum of tbe one who went instantly was more desirable than the one who entered tho shining gate through a long laiKt of insomnia and congestion? In the ono case it was like your standing wearily at a door, knocking and wait ing unci wondering if it will ever open, and knocking and waiting again, while in tho other case it was a swinging open of the door at the first touch of your knuckle. Give your friendship to Gcd and have God’s friendship for you, and even the worst accident will be a victory. Vain* of Divine Frlendatrip. How refreshing is human friendship, and true friends, what priceless treas ures! When sickness comes and trouble comes and death acmes, we send for our friends first of all, and their appearance in our doorway in any crisis is re-en forcement, and when they have enter ed, we say, “Now it is all right!” Oh, what would we do without personal friends, business friends, family friends? But we want something mightier thi«i human friendship in the 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 dosed his eye*, confidently saying, “Now where is Jesus of Nazareth, my true and never failing Friend?” Yes, I admire human friendship as seen in the case of David and Jonathon, of Paul and Onesiphorus, of Herder and Goethe, of Goldsmith and Reyndds, of Beaumont and Fletch er, of Crowley and Harvey, of Erasmus aud Thomas More, of Lersing and Men delssohn, of Lady Churchill and Prin cess Anne, of Orestes and Pylades, each requesting that himself might take the point of tbe dagger, so the other might be spared; of Epaminondas and Pelopi- das, who locked tlieir shields in battle, determined to die together, but the grandest, the mightiest, the tenderest friendship in all the universe is the friendship between Jesus Christ and a believing soul. Yet, after all I have said, I feel I have only done what James Marshall, tbe miner, did in 1848 in California, before its gold mines were known. He reached in and put upon the table of his employer, Captain Sutter, a thimbleful of gold dust. “Where did yeu get that?” said bis em ployer. Tb« reply was, “I got it this morning from a mill race from which the water had been drawn off.” But that gold dust, which could have been taken up between the finger aud the thumb, was tbe prophecy and specimen that revealed California’s'wealth to all nations, ‘wid today I have only put be fore you a specimen of tbe value of di vine friendship, only a thimbleful of mines inexhaustible and infinite, though all time aud all etesuity go on with tbe exploration. PECULIAR INSURANCE THE SYSTEM THAT ICELAND EN FORCED CENTURIES AGO. Natural 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 from hand to mouth.—Town Topics. In the Golcten Aj** of th« IaImkI Republic Protection Against Low by Fire XVtta Compulsory—Method* by Wlif*h Daiuayc and Compensation Were Decided. Centuries before the wise citizens of London recognized the value of fire in surance there existsd a most interesting form of it. and that not in any of the groat commercial nations of the middle ages, hut in a remote island of the At lantic—in Iceland. This fact, remarkable as it is in it self, will not seem so surprising to those who are acquainted with tbs an cient condition of that country, which has for several hundred years played but a small part in European history. Its first colonists, in the end of the ninth and beginning of the tenth cen turies, were among the most enterpris ing of Norway’s sons, and for the next three centuries their new home rivaled the mother country in most respects and far excelled it in mental activity. The old poetry of Norway died out about the year 1000 A. D^ and from that date, so long as then: were skalds at the court of the Norwegian kings, they were Icelanders. At the same time they were careful farmers, daring seattten and enterpris ing traders. They traded regularly with all the neighboring •ouutries and thought little of an overiaud journey to Constantinople, where many of them served in the bodyguard of tbe Byzau- tine emperor. At home, next to tbe necessary care of their herds aud flocks, they were above all devoted to poetry, h.story and law. To he skilled in the latter was a sure title to respect at a time when lawbooks were still un known and codes were carried in the head of the “lawman” or declared by the “law speaker” at the meetings of the ulthing, or yearly assembly. In the thiHeenth oentury these laws of use and wont came to be written down, uot officially, it would seem, as happened in other countries, but by persons interested in legal studies, and they are now preserved in a collection commonly known as Gra-gas, or gray goose (a name of doubtful origin), which is used as a general name for the laws of Iceland prior to its union with Norway in 12U2. It is in this collection of laws that the interesting item of compensation for loss by fire occurs, a section which is quoted by tbe editor of an Icelandic journal in a series of articles on the an cient civilization ot Iceland. The edi tor, Dr. Valtyr Gudmuudsson, is one of the best authorities on this subject arid uses tbe quotation as a text, to point out to his countrymen the superior foresight of their ancestors in this respect. The modern Icelander has uot yet realized the value of insurance, as shown by the fact that one of the foremost yeomen in the country had his farm burned down three times in succession without its being insured. It was otherwise in tbe old days, as Dr. Valtyr points out. In the time of the old republic, the golden age of Ice land, every yeoman farmer was by law compelled to be a member of a mutual insurance society. The method by which compensation for loss of fire was made is thus explained in Gra-gas aud is a striking proof of the thoroughly practical views of the old Icelauders: “There are three heuses in every mau’s dwelling for which compensation may be obtained in event of their being burned down.” In Icelandic dwellings each room was a separate building, and so is called a “house. ” “One is the women’* sitting room, another the com mon sitting room, and the third a pan try where the women prepare the food. If a man has both a sitting room and a hall, then at tbe spring assembly he shall choose whether be will rather have the pitting room or the hall in sured. If there is a church or chapel on any man’s farm, then that is tbe fourth house liable fur compensation, where it exiMH. “If any of these houses aforementioned is' burned down, tbe owner shall sum mon five of bis neighbors and get them to estimate the damage tfiat has been done. They shall estimate the damage done to the house itself, and also that done to clothes aud other valuables burned along with it, hut only such clothes aud valuables as the owner re quires for daily use shall be reckoned for compensation. If a church is burn ed, there shall be reckoned along with it for compensation all the hangings, tbe choir and the best bell that has been destroyed, if there were more than one, aud all the furniture required for daily use. The same thing shall be done in the case of chapels. ” When the damage had been valued by tbe neighbors, as above provided, one-half of the loss had to be borne by the yeoman himself, aud the other half was made good by all the other yeomen in the district. From each of these a certain amount was levied in proportion to tbe value oi his property, aud if this were uot paid within a specified time it could be seized by law. At the same time it was provided that do one could be called npdh to pay as his shave more than 1 per cent of his whole property, and it was uot compulsory to conipen sate tbe same person for loss by fire more than three times.—Chambers’ Journal. kfeMted bo*' re- / Eczema! The*Only Cure. Eczoma is more Dion a skin disease, and no skm remedies oan eure it. The loctors are unable to effect a cure, and their mineral mixtures are .damaging to.the most powerful c®isstit,»tion. 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