Show 1 urmai pere ayans ot of th ax w the art we have reams of paper coverer covered with directions as io 0 o the proper behavior when we rise up and when we sit down when cheri we eat when we sleep when we marry and even when we die that is our friends are told just how to do after we are dead and there is a strict ct code of behavior well understood if unwritten pern remaining hining to the manners and dress of people at funerals you all know the delightful person who bears everywhere the reputation of being sociable we all like mrs popular she is so sociable no one calls her pretty nor intellectual nor do they even mention the fact that she is good that she it might even be said is sociable seems in some ined finable way to circumscribe every good and admirable quality these people who are sociable however deserve a little closer study than their friends and acquaintances acquaintance ps give them they are a class in and of themselves and what has earned them their reputation is worth knowing at a first glance one might suppose selfishness and d sociability were non compatible but te the truth is some of the most sociable sociably e people are in tensley selfish sociable Socia cle people are alwa always YS talkative people whether their talk be sense or nonsense A certain affectionateness is a part of sociability but the greatest point in the quilitz is a love of approbation if thou art anxious for the good opinion of thy friend thou wilt hide in a measure thine own down selfishness and tickle and anat please thy friend by a chatty remark or an in in te rested ear turned to his words if however thou art cold 0 to o public opinion thou canet never be sociable the so ft elble person if sociable people are agreeable friends the most comfortable of all persons to talk with associate with and jure vv with is the sensible person I 1 have in n ray my mind a middle middle aged woman who is the most companion imaginable she is sociable too but ah that is not her greatest grea teft charm she is so sensible she never takes offense at trifles rarely at really unkind acts or words she ho isn t offended if her next door doo neighbor has a aparto party and forgets to in 0 fite her nor does she sulk if all her in b are bidden to the feast while she remains r at home if her children choose to spend more tune time with others than they do 10 lo with ber she knows they have a good and sufficient reason as she gives them the credit of being as sensible ss as she is rare occurrence should wound her she buries it deep in her own heart awaiting an explanation and if the explanation comes no one needs to go 0 down on their knees in ahe dust to make mate reparation rop A word is sufficient she enjoys things quite as well as other people but if one thing fails her she can easily turn to another what a dreadful thing it is to have nave intimate friendships lyeth ith sensitive people you epst must always il cu them m derbi tive people if you were ap call a spade a spade to them nothing ILI less than p a spasm sp asin or an enemy would be ane te result stilt your words mut be bd watched your actions guarded aye eyen your very WAS looks wit must DC be taht turned ade in ift the proper direction if I 1 man living iti in the olden days of this church I 1 a should uld fervently pr pray a to we the lord to deliver me front from getting A sensitive wife or wives I 1 know a fantilly in which are a number of wives and although obliged to pass through thi the separations and trials of recent years yet lot affie they 1 are the happiest family on earth they generous souls bouls attribute their cheerful content to the nobility and wisdom of the head of the house but I 1 who am in an unprejudiced on looser loclker fel feel that much of their hall happiness is due to the fact that they are one and all eminently sensible can eminently sensible people ever be eminently selfish the ordinance altho of the Na ement when our fathers and mothers left the old cr creeds beds with their sunday religions long faces and solemn restrictions they were so enjoyed to find that our father loved cheerfulness and happiness that they inclined to the other extreme and made their meetings together a sort of social reunion now this ma may y be well enough before the services begin but there can be no greater gloater insult offered to a choir which is singing or to a man who is praying or preaching than to whisper and shuffle while the service service is is proceeding if it is insulting to speaker or singer to whisper what name would we bestow upon the actions of those who pay little or no attention to the solemn and sacred ordinances of the sacrament imagine ima i n if you can a kneeling group of israelites gsg baeli oft es before e ore the altar whereon the priest was offer offering hig sacrifice whispering jering and smiling chatting and nodding to each otherl other think of a group of our good saints gathered in front of the cross whereon our beloved savior was hanging ip in his death agony bobbing and bowing bowin 9 w whispering and laughing in careless indi indifference arence to the awful stene scene do you think our god can be mocked think of it ye mothers who allow your children to run and to play in sabbath school during this solemn ordinance think of it ye women whose thoughts float lightly and whose ca careless cameles reles notie noise disturbs the sacred spirit of the house of godl god think of it ye fathers who handle with careless abstracted fingers the tokens of that mangled form are we not silly children running to and fro in our dav saviors q bors presence |