Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-28
POWER OF KINDNESS
Men Not to be Overcome and Con.
verted with Argument.
A Little Less Religion and More of DO
Unto Others as You Would that
others Should Do Unto You.''
Tens OF Thousands of Men and Women Dying
Every Year for Want OF single Rind
Word-The World Tou CRUZ.
Special to the Gazette.

special to the Gazette.
CINCINNATI, OHIO, Aug. 24.-Dr.
Talmage, who is IN this citv to-day,
discourses on power which, II it had
Leen used as extensively as Christ In
tended It 10 be used, would have saved
the church and the world from infinite
discord and sorrow-the power OF kind
ness, His text 10 ga soft tongue
breaketh the bone. " prov. XIV, I5).
Following is his sermon:
when Solomon said this he drove
whole volume into one phrase. You, of
course, will not be SO silly as TO TAKE the
words of the text In a literal sense.
They simply mean to set forth the fact
that there is a tremendous power in a
kind word. Although it may seem to
he very Insignificant, its force is inde-
scribable and illimitable. Pungent and
all conquering utteranee: "a soft
tongue breaketh the bone -
If the weather were not 80 hot, and I
had time, would show you kindness as
means of defense; kindness as a means
of usefulness; kindness as a means of
domestic harmony; kindness as best em-
Moved by governments for the tanning
and curing OF criminals; and kindness
rs best adapted for the settling and ad-
justiug of international quarrels; but I
shall call your attention only to two OF
these thoughts.
And first, / speak to you OF kindness as
q means of defense. Almost every man,
in the course OF his life, is set upon and
assaulted. Your motives are misinter-
preted or your religious or political prin-
ciples are bombarded. What to do der
such circumstances is the question. The
"Strike back. Give as much as he sent.
TRIP HIM INTO THE DITCH
which be dug for your feet. Cash him
with ms severe wound as that which be
inflicted on your soul. Shot for shot.
Sarcasm for sarcasm. An eye for an eye.
A tooth for a tooth - But the better
spirit in the mans soul rises up and
says: "You ought to reconsider that
matter. You look up into the face of
Christ and say: "My Master, how ought
10 act under these difficult ciroumstau-
ces?" And Christ instantly answers:
"Bless them that curse you, and pray
for them which despitefullT use you.'
Then the old nature rises up again and
says: "You had better not forgive him
until first you have chastised him. You
will never get him in so tight corner
again. You will never have such an op-
portunity of int1icting the right kind of
punishment upon him again. First chas-
tise him and then let him go. - "No,
says the better nature. 'thnsh thou foul
heart. Try the soft tongue that break
eth the bone. Have you ever in all
your life known aoerbity and acrimoni-
Gus dispute to settle quarrel? Did they
not always make matters worse, and
worse, and worse?
Many years ago there was great quar-
rel in the Presbyterian family. Minis
listers of Christ were thought orthodox in
proportion as they had measured Iances
with other clergymen of the same de-
nomination. The most outrageous per-
sonalities were abroad. As, in the au-
tumn, hunter comes home with a
string OF game, partridges and wild
ducks slung over his shoulder, so there
were many ministers who came back
from the ecclesiastical courts with long
strings of doctors of divinity whom they
had shot with their own rife.
THE DIVISION BECAME WIDER,
the luminosity greater, until after a
while some good men resolved upon an
other track. They began to explain
AWAY the difficulties; they began TO for
give each others fault, and, loI the
great church quarrel was settled, and
the new school Presbyterian church and
the old school Presbyterian church be- |
came one. The different parts of the |
Presbyterian order, welded by ham, |
mer, little hammer, Christian ham, /
mer that the Scripture calls "a soft |
tongue.
You have dispute with your neigh |
Dor. You say to him 81 despiss you"
lie replies: al can't bear the sight of |
you. - You say to him: 'Never enter
my house again. - He says: elf you |
come on my door sill, l III kick you of -
You say to him: "I'n put you down."
He says 10 you: "You are mistaken; |
IN put you down. :" And so the con-
test RACES; and year after year you act
the unchristian part, and he acts the IN
christian part. After a while the better
spirit seizes you. and one day you go
over to the neIghbor, and say: "Give
me your hand. We have fought long
enough. Time is so short, and eternity
Is so near, that We cannot afford any
longer TO quarrel. l feel you have
Wronged me very much; but let US settle
all now in one great hand shaking, and
bs good friends for all the rest of our
lives. - You have risen 10 a higher
platform than that on which before you
stood. You win his admiration, and
Won get his apology. But If you have
hot conquered him in that way, at any
rate you have won the applause of your
own conscience, the high estimation of
good men, and the honor of your Lord
WHO DIED FOR HIS ARMED ENEMIES.
But, you say, what are we to do
when ISLANDERS assault us, and there come
acrimonious sayings all around about us,
and We are abused and spit on?'' Ny
reply lie: Do not go and attempt 70 chase
down the SANDERS. Lies are prolific,
aud while you are killing one fifty are
born. All your demonstration of indig-
nation only exhaust yourself. You
might IS well on some summer night
when the swarms of insects are coming
up from the meadows and disturbing you,
and disturbing your family, bring up
some great swamp angel" like that
which Numbered over Charleston and
try 10 shoot them down. The game is
loo small for the gun.
But what, then. are you TO do with the
abuses that come upon you in life? You
are 10 live them down! l saw farmer
90 out 10 get back 3 swarm OF bees that
had wandered of from the hive. As he
moved amid them.th buzzed around bis
head, aud buzzed around his hands, aud
buzzed around his feet. II he had killed
one OF them they would have stupg him
10 death. But he moved in their midst |