The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-08-30

oAiu. hHu nave IO"teii you that while all
your storms Of ridicule and storms of sar.
casm may rouse up the passion of IN i'm.
moral nature, nothing less than attractive
power OF Christian kindness can ever raise
the spirit TO happiness and to God. / have
more faith in the prayer of a child 5 years
OLD, IN the way Of bringing an infdel back to
Christ and to heaven, than I have in all the
Missing thunderbolts Of ecclesiastical contro.
versy. -
What ! have said is just as true in the re.
clamatioh OF the openly vicious. Did you
ever know o drunkard to b- saved through
the caricature ofa drunkard? Your mimi
cry OF the staggering step, and the thick
tongue, and the disgusting hiccough, only
worse maddens his brain. But If you come
to him in kindness and sympathy; If you
snow him you appreciate the awful grip Of a
depraved appetite; ifyou persuade him of
tne !act that thousands who had the Crap
their soul us. firmly as in his have been de-
lvered, then a ray of flight will fash across
his vision, and it will seem rs If a SUPER
natural hand were s~teadying his staggering
gait. -
"A good many years ago there lay in the
streets q man dead drunk, his face exposed
to the blistering MONDAY sun. A Christian
woman passed along, looked at him. and
said: Poor fellow" She took her hand
kerchiec and spread it over his face, and
passed on. The nan reused himself up from
his debauch and began to look at the hand
k%erchief, and, 10! on it was the name of a
highly respectable Christian woman OF the
city: He went to her, he thanked her for her
kindness; and that one little deed saved him
for this life, and saved him for the life that
Is to come: He was afterward attorney
general Of the United States; but, higher
b all, he became the consecrated disciple
OF Jesus Christ.
klnd words are SO Oh cap, it is a wonder we
do not use them oitener. There are tens of
thousands of people who are dying for the
lack Of one kind word. There is a business
man who has fought against trouble until
he is perfectly exhausted. He has been
thinking about forgery, about robbery,
about suicide. Go to that business man.
Tell him that better times are coming, and
tell him that you yourself were in q tight
business pass, and. the Lord delivered you.
Tell him to put his trust in God. Tell him
thai Jesus Christ stands beside every bust.
ness man in his perplexities. Tell him of the
sweet promises Of Gods comforting Ct ace.
That man is dying for the lack of just one
one saving o%pnipotent, kind word.
Here is q soul that has, been swamped in
sin. He wants to find the light of the gospel
He :eeIs like a shipwrecked mariner looking
over the beach, watching for q sail against
the sky. 0, bear down on him. Tell him
that the Lord waits to be gracious to him.
and though he has been q great sinner, there
is a great Savior provided. Tell him that
as snow; though they are red like crimson
they shall be as wool. That man is dying
for the lack of one kind word.
There used to be SUM at a great many o
the pianos all through the country IL song
that has almost died out. l wish somebody
would start it again in our social circles
There may not have been very exquisite art
in the music. but there was a grand ant
glorious sentiment:
"Kind words never die, never die;
Cherished and blessed"
o. that We might in our families and in GU
churches try the force of kindness. You cal
never drive men, women, or children into thu
kingdom of God. A March NORTHEASTERN viii
bring out more honeysuckles thar iretfulnese
md scolding will bring out Christian grace
| wish that in all our religious work we nigh
be saturated with the spirit Of kindness
Missing that, We miss a great deal Of useful
ness. There is no need of coming out befor
men and laundering to them the law unles
at the same time you preach to them tn
gospel. Did you not know this simple stor.
OF q Savior's kindness to redeem all nations
The hard heart of this worlds obduracy j
to be broken before that story. There is il
Antwerp, Belgium, one Of the most remark
able pictures l ever saw. 1t is 1.-The Descen
| of Christ from the Cross" tits one o.: tn
Ruben's pictures. No man can stand an,
look at that Descent from the Cross" a
Rubens pictured it, without having his eye
flooded with tears, if he have any sensibilit
at all. 1t is an overmastering picture-on
that stuns you, and staggers you.a and haunt
your dreams. One afternoon, q man stoo
in that catheral looking at Rubens' I'D,
scent from the Cross" He was oil absorb
ed in that scene OF a Savior's sufferines whe
the %ianitor came in and said: sit is time t
close up the cathedral for the night. l wis
you would depart" Ire pilgrim looking q
that Descent from the Cross" turne
around to the ~janitor and said: "No, nj
not yet. Wait until they get Him down."
o, it is the story of a Savior's sufferin
kinaness that is to capture the world. Whe
the bones OF that great Behemoth of eniqu
ty which has trampled all nations shall l
broken and shattered, it will be found GU
that the work was not done by the banne
OF the iconoclast, orby the sword of the col
querer, or by the plain, simple, overwheln
ing force of 'the soft tongue that breaketh til
bone" r.