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I •V n • >y ^Tashington, Jan. 12.—In this dis- rfrnrse Dr. TaImago urges thougbtful- .•>’^8 for others and shows how such a ?;» nlgnant spirit may he fostered; text, T Peter 11, 8. "Be courteous.” fji an age when bluntncss has been canonized as a virtue It may be use- fnl to extol one of the most beautiful nf all the royal family of graces— ♦.'i>nrtesy. It is graciousness. deference >o the wishes of others, good manners, usability, willingness to deny our- «eives somewhat for the advantage of *N*bjers, urbanity. But what is the use -if my defining the grace of courtesy •'• lien we all know so well what it is? Ilie botanist might say some very in- f.ivsting things about a rose, and the ^iaomist might discourse about water or light, l»ut without ever seeing a tnitanist or a chemist we know what rose is and what water and light jj'o. Do not take our time in tolling u.* what courtesy is. Only show us >. .w we may get more of it and avoid vrhat are its counterfeits. Mark you. r cannot be put on or dramatized suc- ♦'*»ssfully for a long while. We may Le full of bows and genu flections, and *;iiiles and complimemary phrase, and i. jve nothing of genuine courtesy ei- r,nf-r in our makeup or in our de- • j<eanor. A backwoodsman who never s- w a drawing room or a dancing mas- or a caterer or a fold of drapery i..iay witli his big soul and bard band .nd awkward salutation exercise the •.race, while one born under richest '■ ; holstery and educated in foreign •■•rLioois, and bothered to know which «»•.'. ten garments he will take from a yal wardrobe, may be as barren ol T::e spirit of courtesy as tiie great Sa- i u*a desert is of green meadows and tossing fountains. Christian courtesy is born in the ii 'art by tbe power of the Holy Ghost, who has transformed and illumined u::d glorified one’s nature. Mark you. 7 am speaking of the highest kind ol i aurtesy, which is Christian courtesy, ir/.niething like it—ordinary politeness -may grow up with us under the dl- re-ction of intelligent and watchful •; vi rent age, but 1 am not speaking of iuxt which is merely ngreeableuess of »v;nversation and behavior. All that. . j;ay be a matter of tutelage and fine cirrounding and show itself in lifting tiie hat to passersby and in a graceful way of asking about your health and sending tin- right kind of acceptance xvben you can go and tin* right kind of regrets when you cannot go and under standing all the laws of preference at table and parlor door, all of which is well. 1 am speaking of a principle of courtesy so implanted in one’s nature tLat his suavity of conversation and manner sliall b«* the outburst of what ?:>.» feels for the happiness and welfare others, a principle that will work ia the next world as well as In this and will be ns appropriate in the man sions of heaven as in earthly dwelling 5»Laces. I'ndeMlrnhle People. Now, you know as well as I do that Rome of the most undesirable people Irnive been seeming incarnations of courtesy. In our early American his tory there arose a man of wonderful talent, an impersonation of all that can charm drawing rooms and culti vated circles. Aged men who knew #\im in their youth have told me that ha was the most irresistible man they ‘ vc- • r>t, ids voice silvery, his smile cv. Acaing, his glove immaculate, his r ye piercing, his high forehead wreath ed in curls, his attire a fascination. He became vice president of the Unit- -jd States and within one vote of being president. Men threw away their for tunes to help him in his political aspi rations and to forward him in a con spiracy to overthrow the government of the United States, he trying to do in America what Napoleon at that very time was trying to do In Europe— (establish a throne for himself. But he was immoral and corrupt. He was ♦Jie serpent that wound its way into cnany a domestic paradise. lie shot to •death one of the greatest of Americans — Alexander Hamilton. The world found out long before he left it that Ihe offender 1 speak of was an embodl- inent of dissoluteness and base ambl- lion. He was tbe best illustration that I know of of tbe fact that a man may Slave the appearance of courtesy while within he is all wrong. Absalom, a Bible character, was a specimen of a man of polish outside ind of rottenness Inside. Beautiful, brilliant and with such wealth of hair hat when it was cut In each Decern- :>er as a matter of pride he had It 'weighed, and It weighed 200 shekels. He captured all who came near him. But, oh, what a bean he had—full of •reacbery and unfllial spirit and base- 'less! He was as bad as he was al- uring and charming. In the famous Athenian Alcibiades history discourses of the same splendor of manner covering utter depravity. Noble pedigree, transcendent abilities, /radiant personality, eloquent tongue, riumphant warrior, victor at Olympic games, but a debauchee and an Im personation of all the vices. Alas, that ill up and down history and clear on 'nto our day there are so many of ▼hat Christ calk'd “wolves In sheep’s Nothing” — “whitewashed sepulchers, hall of dead men’s bones and all un- cleanr.esal” Gilded abominations, walk ing lazarettos, attired In vermilion and gold. .Perdition hanging out the ban ners of heaven. As far as possible are they removed from nil genuine cour tesy. Heart Conrteiiy. I like what J.^.n Wesley said to a man when their carriages met on the road. The ruffian, knowing Mr. Wes ley and disliking him, did not turn out. but kept the middle of the road. Mr. Wesley cheerfully gave the man all the road, himself riding into the ditch. As they passed each other the rutfian said. “I never turn out for fools,” and Mr. Wesley said, “I always do.” I like the reproof which a Chinaman in San Francisco gave an American. The American pushed him off the sidewalk until he fell into the mud. The China man on rising began to brush off the mud and said to the American: “You Christian; me heathen. Goodby.” A stranger entered a church in one of the cities and was allowed to stand a long while, although there was plenty of room. No one offered a seat. The stranger after awhile said to one of the brethren, “What church is this?” The answer was, “Christ’s church, sir.” “Is lie in?” said tbe stranger. The of ficer of the church understood wlint was meant and gave him a seat. We want more courtesy in the churches, more courtesy in places of business, more courtesy in our homes. But heart courtesy must precede hand and head and fo ,t courtesy. Cul tivation of it should begin in the fa ther’s house. You often notice that brothers and sisters are often gruff and snappy and say things and do things that they would not have the outside world know about. Rough things are sometimes said in house holds which ought never to be said at all — teasing and recrimination and faultfinding and harsh criticisms, which will have their echo thirty and forty and fifty years afterward. In the sleet driven by that cast wind no sweet flowers of kindness and geniality will grow. Let children hear their parents picking at each other, and those chii- dfen will be found picking at each other, and far down the road of life will be seen the same disposition to pick at others. Better than this habit of pieking at children, which so many parents indulge in. would be one good, healthy application of the rod. Better a shower that lasts a few minutes than the cold drizzle of many days. We never get over our first home, how ever many homes we may have after ward. Cnltlvnte Christ Inn Grace. Let us ail cultivate this grace of Christian courtesy by indulging in the habit of praise instead of the habit of blame. There are e\ ils in the world that we must denounce, and there are men and women who ought to lie chas tised. but never let us allow the op portunity of applauding good deeds pass unimproved. The old theory was that you must never praifce people lest we make them vain. No danger of that. Before any of us got through with life we will have enough mean and ignoble and depreciating and ly ing tilings said about us to keep us humble. God approvingly recognizes a system of rewards as well as of pun ishments. When you hear a good sermon, stop after the benediction and tell the pas tor, though you never saw 1dm before that day. "Your sermon did me good.” When a mechanic does a good piece of work, tell him it is well done. When a physician brings you out of a peril ous illness, stop him in the street and say. “Doctor, you saved my life.” When you hear of a business man in some heavy stress of financial weather helping frailer craft into the harbor, go into his counting room and say, "1 hoar you have been helping your fel low business man to outride the tem pest of Ji panic, and 1 came in to thank you for the good advice you gave and to let you know that all good citizen^ appreciate what you have been doing.” Go down the street tomorrow and thiink somebody. There are hundreds of people who never get thanked at all. Plenty of severe criticism, plenty of faultfinding, plenty of misinterpreta tion, plenty of depreciation, but as to gratitude—that is a market in which the supply does not equal the demand. In the cultivation of this habit of Christian courtesy let us abstain from Joining in the work of defamation. Every little while society takes after a man, and it must have a victim. If you had a roll of ail the public men of this generation or of any generation who have been denounced and despoil ed of their good name, it would take you a long while to call tbe roil. It is a bad streak in human nature that there are so many who prefer to be lieve evil instead of good concerning any one under discussion. If a good motive and a bad motive have been possible in the case in band, one man will believe the conduct was Inspired by a good motive, and ten men will be lieve it was inspired by a bad motive. Tbe more faults a man has of bis own the more willing is be to ascribe faults to others. Speak Well of One Another. What a curse of cynics and pessi mists afflicts our time, afflicts all time! There are those who praise no one un til he is dead. Now that he is clear under ground and a heavy stone is on top of him there is no possibility of his ever coming up again as a rival. Some of the epitaphs on tombstones are so fulsome that on resurrection day a man rising may, if he reads the epi taph, for the moment think he got in to the wrong grave. Speak well one of another, and if you find yourself in circles disposed to slander and abuse be for the time as dumb as the sphinx which, though only a few yards away from tl.J overshadowing pyramid of Egypt* has not with its lips of stone spoken one word In thousands of years. There are two sides to every man’s chuructcr — a good side and an evil side. The gord see only the good and the evil only the evil, and the proba bility is that a medium opinion Is the riirht opinion. Most of the people whom I know are doing about ns well ns they can under the circumstances. When I see people who are worse than I am, I conclude that if I Laid the same bad Influences around me nil my life that they have had I would probably have been worse than they now are. The work of reform is the most Important work, but many of the reformers, dwelling on one evil, see nothing but evil, and they get so used to anathema they forget the usefulness once in awhile of a benediction. They get so accustomed to excoriating public men that they do not realize that never since John Hancock in boldest chirog- rnpliy signed tie Declaration of Inde pendence, nev<*r since Columbus pick ed up the floating land flowers that showed him he was coming near some new country, have there been so many noble and splendid and Christian men in high places in this country as now. You could go into the president’s csibl- net or the United States senate or the house of representatives In this city and find plenty of men capable of hold ing an old fashioned Methodist prayer meeting, plenty of senators and repre sentatives and cabinet officers to start the tune and kneel with the penitents at the nlti'r. In nil these places there iire men who could, without looking at the book, recite the sublime words, as did Gladstone during vacation at Ha- warden, “I believe in God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ,” and from the sen ate and house of representatives and the presidential cabinet and from the surrounding offices «nnd committee rooms, if they could hear, would come many voices responding “Amen and amen!” “If Yon Please.” Christian courtesy I especially com mend to those who have subordinates. Almost every person has some one un der him. How do you treat that clerk, thsit servant, that assistant, that em ployee? Do you accost him in brusque terms and roughly command him to do that which you might kindly ask him to do? The last words that the Duke of Wellington uttered were, "If you please.” That conqueror in what was in some respects the greatest battle ever fought in his last hours, asked by ids servant if he would take some tea. replied, "If you please.” his last words an expression of courtesy. Beautiful characteristic iu any cliiss. The day la borers in Sweden, passing each other, take off their hats in reverence. There is no excuse for boorishness in any cir cle. As complete a gentleman as ever lived was the man who was unhorsed on the road to Damascus and beheaded on the road to Ostia—I’aul, the apostle. I know that ho might be so character ized by the way in* apologized to Ana nias, the high priest. I know it from the way he complimented Felix as a Judge and from the way lie greets the king, “I thank myself. King Agrippa. because I sh.-tll answer for myself this day before thee touching all the things whereof I am accused of the Jews, es pecially because I know thee to be ex pert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews.” I know that I’aul was a gentleman from the way lie opened his sermon on Mars hill, not insulting his audience, as King James’ translation implies, but saying. "Ye ipen of Athens. I perceive that in all things ye are very devout.” I know he was a gentleman from the fact that when lie. with others of a shipwreck, on the island of Melita visited the gov ernor of the island lie was most im pressed with the courtesy shown them and reported that visit in these words: “In the same quarters were posses sions of the chief man of the island, whose name was Publius, who receiv ed us and lodged us three days cour teously.” And then see those words of advice which he gives: “Bear ye one another’s burdens;” “In honor prefer ring one another;” “Honor all men.” What a mighty means of usefulness is courtesy! The lack of it brings to many a dead failure, while before those who possess it in large quantity all the doors of opportunity are open. You cau tell that urbanity does not come from study of books of etiquette, although such books have their use, but from a mind full of thoughtful ness for others and a heart in sym pathy with the conditions of other*. If those conditions be prosperous, a glad ness for the success, or if the condi tions be depressing, a sorrow for the unfavorable circumstanees. Ah, this world needs lighting up! To those of us who are prosperous it is no credit that we are In a state of good cheer, but in tbe lives of ninety-nine out of a hundred there is a pathetic side, a tak ing off, a deficit, an anxiety, a trouble. By a genial look, by a kind word, by a helpful action, we may lift a little of the burden and partly clear the way for the stumbling foot. Oh, what a glorious art It is to say the right word In the right way at tbe right time! How reprehensible the behavior of those who pride themselves on the op posite quality and have a genius for saying disagreeable things, using sar casm and retort not for lawful pur poses, but to sting and humiliate and hurt! “Didn’t I take him down?” “Didn’t 1 make him wince?” “Didn’t I give it to him?” That is the spirit of the devil, while the opposite is the spirit of Christ. Make Others Happy. Alexander the Great won the love of his soldiers on foot by calling them fellow footmen. Rehobonm lost the ten tribes through his discourtesy. More thoughtfulness for otliers—let us nil cultivate it. That spirit was well illustrated when the Birkenhead was wrecked on the rocks and all knew she must go down. Many soldiers were on board. The drum sounded, and the soldiers fell into line. The women and children were got off in the boats. Then the commander of the ship said, "Let ail those who cau swim strike out for the boats.” "No,” said Captain Wight of the Ninety-first highlanders; “If you do that, you will sink the boats in which the women and children are,” The brave men kept to their post, and Just ns the ship was about to make Its Inst plunge they fired a salute to those in the boats. What sinking of self in thought fulness for others! Many years ago two men entered the Inr” , *st locomotive workshops in I’hil- ndi^ihia. They were treated in a very indifferent way and were allowed to depart without any show of courtesy. They went into other shops, and no especial attention was given them. After awhile the two men entered a snmller shop, and the overseer took great pains in showing them every thing and how they wrought and on what plan the shops were run. The two visitors were agents of the czar of Russia, and those shops were trans ferred to St. Petersburg, and that po-/ lite man that bestowed such attention was calif ! to build the locomotives for all the railroads of Russia and hud for tune after fortune roll in upon him. Courtesy is a inigfity force in temporal things as well as in spiritual tilings. Let us start each year, each month, each day, with the question. What can I do to make others happy? On our way to office or store or shop or rail triiin let us lie alert for heaven de scended opportunities. What the World Xeedn. The time must come w’ on the world will acknowledge inter tional cour tesy. Now courtesy between nations is chiefly made of rhetorical greeting, but as soon as there is a difference of interest their ministers plenipotentiary are called home, and the guns of the forts are put in position, and the army and navy get ready. Why not a cour tesy between nations that will defer to each other and surrender a little rather than have prolonged acrimony, ending in great slaughter? Room for all nations of the earth and all styles of government. What the world wants is less armament and more courtesy, less of the ’spirit of destruction and more of the spirit of amity. This cen tury Isas opened with too many armies In the field and too many men-of-wair on the ocean. Before the century closes may the last cavalry horse be hitched to the plow and the last warship be come a merchantman. There is nothing worthy in the thought that the earth will get too crowded with population if vast multi tudes are not destroyed by war. When our old world is full of inhabitants, it will have fulfilled its mission, and it will ite put aside like an old ship turned into a navy yard and dismantled and the world’s inhabitants transferred to some other constellation. The angels in the song celebrated this coming in- ternatiounl courtesy when In the Beth lehem starlight they chanted, "Good will to men.” Divine Grace In tin* Heart, If others lack courtesy, that is no reason why you should lack it. Re spond to rudeness by utmost affabili ty. Because some one else is a boor is no reason why you should be a boor. But how few show urbanity when bad ly treated! Human nature says, “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, re tort for retort, slander for slander, maltreatment for maltreatment.” But there have been those you and I hsive known who amid assault and carica ture and injustice have maintained the loveliness of blossom week in spring time. Nothing but divine grace iu the heart can keep such equilibrium. That is not human nature until it is trans formed by supernal influences. To put it on the lowest ground you cannot af ford to be revengeful and malignant. Hatred and high indignation are stages of unhealth. They enlarge the spleen; they weaken the nerves; they attack the brain. Rage in a man is one form of apoplexy. Every time you get mad you damage your body and mind and soul, and you have not such a surplus of vigor and energy that you can af ford to sacrifice them. So 1 applaud Christian courtesy. 1 would put it upon the throne of every heart iu all the world. The beauty of it is that you may extend it to others and have just as much of it—yea, more of it—left in your own heart and life. It is like the miracle of the loaves and fishes, which, by being divided, were multiplied until twelve baskets were filled with the remnants. It is like a torch, with which fifty lamps may be lighted and yet the torch remain as bright as before it lighted the first lamp. But this grace will not come to its coronal until it reaches the heavenly sphere. What a world that must be where selfishness and jealousy and pride and acerbities of temper have never entered and never will enter! No struggle for precedence. No rival ry between cherubim and seraphim. No ambition as to who shall have the front seats in the temple of God and the Lamb. No controversy about the place the guest may take at the ban quet. No rivalry of robe or coronet. No racing of chariots. No throne look ing askance upon other thrones, but all the Inhabitants perfectly happy and rejoicing in the perfect happiness of others. If I never get to any other de lightful place, I want to get to that place. What a realm to live in for ever! All worshiping the same God, all saved by the same Christ, all expe riencing the same emotions, all ascend ing the same heights of love and exul tation, all celebrating the victories Courtesy there easy, because there will he no faults to overlook, no apologies to make, no mistakes to correct, no dis- agroeuhloness to overcome, no wrongs to right In ail the ages to come not a detraction or a subterfuge. A per fect soul in a perfect heaven. In that realm, world without end, it will never be necessary to repeat the words of my text, words that now need oft rep etition. "Be courteous.” ICopyrli'ht, 1902, Louts Kl pach, N. Y 1 A HAPPY NEW YEAR. Ttnie*y Suy geatlous Which If Followed Will Produce Good Keaolts. iCorrespondence of Tt.e Ledger.) Asbury, Jan. 14.—A Happy New Year to all! In the joy of the present the sor rows of the past seem always de parted and the hope of the future always gleams brightly in the misty far-away, yet to be with tbe advent of the new year it is not enough to simply wish you all a happy new year, which of course we do, but it is pertinent to the occasion to urge up on you all serious thoughts as to how it may be made more prosperous; how your business may not only be increased, but profits correspondingly augmented. Resolves are as naught if made only to be broken. Wishes are the weapons of laggards, actions the broad sword of the conqueror. Let push be the motto for action, honesty the key to your character, enterprise the arch of your triumph, and indus try the lever of your progress. Use all diligence; learn from the humb lest. Be a student forever that you may the sooner be a teacher. Let every effort be your best. What if it does strain every nerve, tax every muscle, weary the brain and fatigue the body. In this work!, paradoxi cal as it may seem, we go fast to go slow; we overwork to rest, when later on when life runs slowly out, when the candle of our existence burns at both ends, when the mind becomes dull, the eyesight dim, the steps tot tering, once a man twice a child, and iu the sere and yellow when child hood comes, be happy in the reflec tion, bitter as it may seem, that those you most love will be good to you if for no otber reason than that you have money. Romance and po etry are sweet, and gentle real life a fierce experience and awful fact. Facts prove that lambs treasured in tneir infancy grow indifferent to the comforts of the aged progenitors when old. age makes its stamp of helplessness upon them. To esitch Datue Fortune's golden smile Assidiously wait, upon t,er. And gather good by every wile That's justified by honor. ! Not to hide’it in a hedge, Not for a train attendant. But for the glorious privilege Of being independent. Ran. Mayor’s Court. There is not much doing in the mayor’s court these days, but when everything else fails “Aunt Mary’s" restaurant can furnish a scrap. One came up from this tony dive Wednes day morning in which Al. Petty, a negro of good fighting qualities, who is better known as “Peg,” played the leading part. “Peg” is a good fighter and is sometimes credited with doing work, but this time he used a knife on a colored brother ana made a strong effort before His Honor. It was however not equal !o his effort at “Aunt Mary's,” so “Peg” went and accepted a position on the good roads train and will be a useful citi zen tor the next thirty days. Another rather tony looking negro was also before His Honor just for a “plain drunk.” He was given a small fine and paid it, and now has time to reflect upon the goodness of his State Jwhich furnishes booze for jags and makes them pay for botfl. 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Some of the relics were 4>und In a casket Inscribed in charac ters not later than the third and possi bly even the fourth century B. C. Ex perts who have examined them pro- uounce them to be genuine. It will be remembered that Buddha’s remains were said to Lave been divided after tbe cremation into eight portiori8 ( and distributed among sections of the Sak- ya clan, which inhabited this region. The ashes have been presen^ftf to the king of Siam, the only royal Buddhist J Advertising With Kite* Kiteflying lias become a mania with enterprising firms in New York, who would placard their wares on the clouds, if possible. Half a dozen of them floated over Battery park and Bowling Green office buildings recent ly, each with an appeal for the public to buy. The highest kite had a soap ad. to its tail. One Just below contain ed a Bible text. Thus was the natural order of things maintained, cleanliness being next to godliness, although hav ing a little the better of it.—Kansas City Star. Killed His Son-in-Law- Memphis, Tenn., Jan. 1G.—A ScimN ^ I tar special from luka. Miss., reports .yf the killing in Hardin county of New port Braddy by his father-in-law, named Leith, the result, it is alleged, of bad feeling that had existed be tween them for some time. Municipal Election at Eastman. Eastman, Ga., Jan. 1G.—The follov- Ing ticket, which was nominated last Monday, was elected today without op position: For mayor, L. M. Peacock; f tr aldermen, J. C. Rawlins, J. H. Rob erts, J. D. Herman and W. J. Williams. Had Fit and Fell In Fire. Cuthbert, Ga., Jan. 16.—Viney El lington. a well known negro woman, who was subject to fits, fell in the fire at her home and w?s so badly turned that ‘die died from the effects Once before shs fell in the fire. Fatal kidney and bladder troubles can always be prevented bv the use of Foley’s Kidney Cure. 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This story will be commenced in next Friday’* issue of The Ledger. i