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shall be as snow; though they are red
like crimson, they shall be as wool.
That man is dying forever for the lack
| of one kind word.
There used to be sung at a great many
of the pianos all through the country
song that mas almost died out. l wish
some one would start it again in our
social circles. There may not have
been very exquisite art in the music,
but there was grand and glorious sem
timent.
Kind words never die, never die;
Cherished and blessed.
o, that we might in our families and
in our churches try the force of kind
ness. You can never drive men, women
or children into the Kingdom of God.
A March northeastern will bring out
more honeysuckles than fretfulness and
scolding will bring out Christian grace.
l wish that in all our religious work we
might be saturated with the spirit of
kindness. Missing that, we miss
deal of usefulness. There is no need
of coming out before men and thunder
ing to them the law unless at the same
time you preach to them the Gospel
Do you not know that this simple story
of SaViour's kindness is to redeem all
nations? The hard heart of this worlds
obduracy is to be broken before tn al
story.
There is in Antwerp, Belgium, one of
the most remarkable pictures l ever
saw. 1t is 1.-THE Descent of Christ from
ko t. -
ures. No man can stand and look at
that Descent from the Cross" as Ru-
bens pictured it, without having his
eyes flooded with tears, if we have any
sensibility at all. 1t is an overmastering
plcture-one that stuns you, and stag
gers you, and haunts your dreams One
afternoon a man stood in that cathe-
dral, looking at Rubens' Descent from
the Cross" He was all absorbed in
that scene of a Saviour's sufferings,
when the janitor came in and said: st
is time to close up the cathedral for the
night. ! wish you would depart" The
pilgrim looking at that Descent from
the Cross" turned around to the ianitor
and said: mo, no; not yet. Wait I'M
til they get Him down"
o, it is the story of Saviour's suffer-
ing kindness that is to capture the
world. When the bones of that great
behemoth of iniquity which has tram
pied all nations shall be broken and
shattered, it will be found out that the
work was not done by the hammer of
the iconoclast or by the torch of perse-
cution, but by the plain, simple. over
whelming force of '''the soft tongue that
breaketh the bone"
And now I ask the blessing of God to
come down upon you in matters of
health, in matters of business; that the
Lord will deliver you from all your
financial perplexities; that He will give
you good livelihood, large salaries,
healthful wages sufficient income. 1
pray God that He may give you the OPP
portunity of educating your children
for this world, and, through the rich
grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, of seeing
them prepared for the world that is to
come. Above all, look for the mercy
of God upon your immortal souls; and
lest | stand before some who have not
yet attended to the things of their
eternal interest, in this, the the closing
part of my discourse. implore them
here and now to seek after God and
be at peace with Him. Oh, we want to
be gathered together at last in the
bright and blessed assemblage of the
skies, our work all done, our sorrows all
ended. God bless you and your chill
dren, and your childfen's children.
And now commend you to God and to
the word of His grace which is able to
build you up, and give you an inherit
ance among all them that are sancti-