Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1890-08-25
KINDNESSANDLOVE
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bone" We read Hudibras, and Sterne.
and Dean Swift, and the other apostles
OF acrimony. but give little time to
studying the example Of Him who was
reyiled, and yet reviled not again. o
that the Lord, by His spirit, would en-
dow us all with 1.-THE soft tongue that
breaketh the bone"
pass now 10 the other thought that
/ desire TO present, and that is, kind
ness as a means of usefulness. In all
communities you find Sceptical men.
Through early education, or through
the maltreatment OF proieSSed Christian
people, or through prying curiosity
about the future world, there are a
great many people who become Scepti-
cal i'm religious things. How shall you
capture them for God? Sharp argu-
ment and sarcastic retOrt never won a
single soul from ScepticiSm to the Chris
tian religion. While powerful books on
the evidences of Christianity" have
their mission i'm confirming Christian
people in the faith they have already
adopted. l have noticed that when Scep-
teal people are brought into the king
dom of Christ, 10 is through the charm
of some genial soul, and not by argu-
meut at all.
MEN ARE NOT SAVED THROUGH THE
HEAD;
they are saved through the heart. A
storm comes out OF its hiding place. 1t
says: Now, Wen just rouse up all
this sea-" and it makes a great buster;
but 10 does not succeed. Par, of the
sea is reused up,-perhaps one-half of
10, or oue-fOurth OF it. After 4 while
the calm moon. placid and beautiful,
looks down, aud the ocean begins to
rise. Ii comes Hp TO high-water mark.
10 embraces the great headlandS. Ii
Submcrges the beaches of all the CONT
ueutS. 1t is the hcart-throb of one
world against the heart-throb of an
other world, And | have TO tell You
that while all your storms of ridicule
and storms of sarcasm may rouse up
the passion Of an immoral nature, moth
ing less than the attractive power of
Christian kindness can ever raise the
deathleSS spirit 10 happiness and TO
God. ! have more faith in the prayer
of child five years old. in the way of
bringing an inidel back TO Christ and to
heaven, than have i'm all the kissing
thundcrboltS of ecclesiastical contro-
verSy.
You cannot overcome men with re-
ligiouS augmentation. II YOU come at
a Sceptical man with an argument on
behalf of the Christian religion, you put
the man ON his mcttle. He says: Il
see that man has q carbine. I'll use my
carbine. I'll answer his argument with
my argument. But If you come To
that man. perSuading him that you de-
sire his happiness on earth. and his
eternal welfare in the world To come, he
cannot answer il.
What l have said, is Just as true in
the reclamation OF the openly vicious.
Did YOU ever know q drunkard 10 be-
saved through the caricature of a
Your mimicry of the stag
gerng step. and the thick tongue, and
the disgusting hiccough. only worse
maddcus his brain. But if You come 10
him I'm Kindness and sympathy; If you
show him that you appreciate the awful
grip OF "a dcpraved appetite; If you per-
suadc him OF the fact that thousands
who had the graphing hooks OF evil
inclination clutchcd In their soul as
firmly as in his have been delivered,
then q ray of light will flash across his
vision. aud il will seem as il a super
natural hand We're Steadying his stag
gcriuc gait.
4 good many years ago there lay in
the streets man dead drunk, his face
exposed 90 the biiStering MONDAY sun.
4 Christian woman passed along. look
no him. and said: Poor fellow She
took her handkerchief and spread 10
over his face, and passed on. The man
reused himself mp from his dcbauch,
and began 90 look at the handkerchief,
aud. lo. ON 10 was the name OF highly
Christian woman OF the city.
lie went 90 her. hc thanked her for her
kindness: and that one little deed saved
him for this life. aud saved him for the
life that Is 10 come. lie was afterward
Attorney-General OF the United States;
but. higher than all. he became the con-
sccratcd disciple of Jesus Christ.
KIND WORDS ARE 50 CHEAP,
i,isa wonder we do not use them oft
ener. There are tens of thousands of
Deople who are dying for the lack OF
one kind word There is business
man who has fought against trouble uu-
iii hc is perfectly exhausted lie has
been thinking about forgery, about rob
berry. about suicide. Go to that bus
mess man. Tell him that better times
are coming. and tell him that you your
self We're i'm tight business pass, and
the Lord delivered you. Tell him 10
nut his trust i'm God. Tell him that
Jesus Christ stands beside every business
man in his perpleXitieS. Tell him oil the
sweet promises of Gods comforting
grace. That man is dying for the lack
of lust one kind word. GO tomorrow
and utter that one saving, omnipotent,
kind word. Here is a SOU
that has been swamped in sin.
He wants TO find the light OF
the Gospel. He feels like shipwreck-
ed mariner looking out over the beach,
watching for sail against the sky. o,
hear down ON him. Tell him that the
Lord waits 10 be gracious TO him, and
though ne has been a great Slnnerthere
is "A great Saviour provided. Tell him
that though his sins are as scarlet, they
shall be- as snow; though they are red
like crimson, they shall be as wool.
That man is dying for ever for the lack
OF one kind word.
There used To be sung alta great many
of the pianos all through the country a
song that has almost died out. | wish
somebody would start il again in our
social circles. There may not have
been very exquisite art in the music,
but there was a grand and glorious sen
timcut:
-Knd words never die. never die.
Cherished and blessed.
O. that We might incur families and
| I'm our churches try the force of kind
mess. Nou can never drive men, women
or children into the kingdom Of God
/ A March northeastcr will bring on
more hOneySuckleS than fretfulncSS and
Seeding will bring out Christian grace
/ wish that iu all our religious work We
might De- saturated with the spirit OF
I kindness. Missing that, We miss a great
/ deal of uSeleSSneSS. There Is no neet
Of coming out before men aud thunder
ing 10 them the law unless at the same
time You preach 20 them the Gospel. d,
Won not know that this simple story Of ;
Sayior'S kindness is to redeem all ma
tionS? The hard heart OF this world:
obduracy is 20 be broken before that
story. There is Antwerp. Belgium
one of the most remarkabl,