Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1890-09-11

gins to rise. 1t comes up to high water
mark. 1t embraces the great headlands. II
nents. 1t il tho heart-throb Of one world
against the heart-throb OF another world.
And have to tell you that while all your
storms of ridicule and storms OF sarcasm
may rouse up the passions OF an immortal
nature, nothing less than the attractive
power Of christian kindness can ever raise
the deathless spirit to happiness and tc
God. have more faith in the prayer OF
child Eve years old, in the way OF bringing
an inHdel back to Christ and to heaven,
than l have In all the kissing thunder
bolts Of ecclesiastical controversy.
You cannot overcome men with religious
augmentation. II you come at sceptical
man with an argument on behalf OF the
christian religion, you put the man on his
mettle. He says" ~ see that man has
carbine. I'll use my carbine. III answer
his argument with my argument" But Il
you come to that man, persuading him that
you desire his happiness on earth. and his
eternal welfare in the world to come, he
cannot answer 1t.
What have said, is Just as true in the
reclamation of the openly vicious. Did you
ever know a drunkard to be saved through
the caricature1of = drunkard? Your MINI
icry Of the staggering STEP the thick tongue
and the disgusting hiccough. only worse
maddens his brain. But II you come to him
in kindness and sympathy; If you show him
that you appreciate the awful grip of de-
PRAYED appetite; II you persuade him that
thousands who had the graphing hooks OF
evil inclination clutched in their soul as
firmly as in his have been delivered, then
ray Of light will fash across his vision, and
1t will seem as II a supernatural hand were
steadying his staggering gait.
A good many years ago there lay In the
streets o man dead drunk, his face exposed
to the blistering monday sun. A christian
woman passed along, looked Mt him, and
said: "Poor fellow" She took her hand
kerchief spread it over his face, and passed
on. The man reused himself from his de-
bauch, and began to look at the handkerchief,
and, 10! on it was the name Of highly re-
spectacle christian woman Of the city. He
went to her. he thanked her for her kind
ness; and that one little deed saved him
for this life, and saved him for the life to
come. He was afterward attorney-general
OF the United States; but, higher than all.
he became the consecrated disciple of Jesus
Christ.
Kind words are SO cheap, it is q wonder
We do not use them oftener. There are
tens of thousands Of people who are dying
for the lack Of one kind word. There is
business man who has fought against
trouble until he is perfectly exhausted. He
has been thinking about forgery, about
suicide. Go to that business. man. Tell
him that better times are coming, and tell
him that you yourself were in tight BUSH
HESS pass, anu Zig LOTu uellScTcu you. 1clJ
him to put his trust in God. Tell him that
Jesus Christ stands beside every business
man in his pcrplexities. Tell him of the
sweet promises Of Gods comforting grace.
That man is dying for the lack OF just one
kind word. Go tomorrow and utter that
one saving, omnipotent, kind word. Here
Is a soul that has been swamped in sin. He
wants to find the light OF the gospel. He
feels like shipwrecked mariner looking
out over the beach, watching for a sail
against the sky. o, bear down on him. Tell
him that the Lord waits to be gracious to
him, and though he has been great sinner.
there Is 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 one kind
word.
the pianos all through the country q song
that has almost died out. l wish somebody
would start 1t again in our social circles
There may not have been very exquisite art
in the music. but there was a grand and
glorious sentiment:
"Kind words never die, never die;
Cherished and blessed"
O,that we might in our families. and In our
| churches try the force Of kindness. You
| can never drive men, women or children into
| the kingdom Of God. A March north-easteR
Will DrlnS OuU more uOUeySu IMAM IreUs
| fulness and scolding will bring out christian
| grace. l wish that in all our religious work
| we might be saturated with the spirit of
| kindness. There is no need Of coming out
before men and laundering to them the law
unless at the same time you preach to them
the Gospel. Do you not know that this SIM
pie story OF a SaviOr's kindness Is to redeem
all nations? The hard heart of the world 8
| obduracy is to be broken before that story.
There is in Antwerp, Belgium, one of the most
remarkable pictures l ever saw. 1t is ''Tha
| Descent OF Christ from the Cross 1t
is one OF Rubens' pictures. No man can
! stand and look at that descent from the
Cross" rs Rubens pictured it. without
having his eyes flooded with tears, If he
have any sensibility at all. 1t is an over
| mastering picture-one that stuns you and
staggers you, and haunts your dreams One
afternoon man stood in that cathedral
| looking at Rubens' descent from the
Cross" He was all absorbed In that scene
OF Saviour's sufferings when the janitoI
! came in and said: ut Is time to close up
the cathedral for the night. I wish you
would depart" The pilgrim looking at
that descent from the Cross" turned
around TO the tanitor and said; "No, no:
not yet. Wait until they get Him down."
o, it is the story Of Saviour's suffering
kindness that is to capture the world. When
the bones of that great Behemoth OF
inquity which has trampled all nation.
| shall be broken and shattered, 1t Will b<
found out that the work was not done by
the hammer Of the iconoclast. or by the
sword OF tho conqueror, or by the torch o.
persecution, but by the plain, simple. over
whclming force OF "the soft tongue thai
breaketh the BONE
And now ask the blessing OF God to com,
down upon you in matters Of health, IL
matters OF business; that the Lord will de-
liver you from all your financial perplexi
ties; that He will give you Il good liveli
hood, large salaries, healthful wages, sum
cient income. pray God that he may Civ,
you the opportunity Of Educating your chill
dren for this world. and. through the ricl
grace OF our Lord Jesus Chrish, seeing then
prepared for the world that is to come
Above all, look for the mercy of God upor
your immortal souls; and lest l stant
before some who have not attended to tn,
things Of their eternal interest, in this, tn,
closing part OF my DISCOURSE, Il implore then
here and now to seek after God and be a
peace with Him. o, we want to be gatheret
together at last In the bright and gloriou