Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-25
Your mimicry of the stage ering step,
and the thick tongue, and the

| huu tue tulck tongue, ana the
DISGUSTING HICCOUGH
| only worse madGens his brain. But if
| you come to him in kindness and SYM
patty; If you show him that you appre-
| ciate the awful grip of depraved appe-
tite; if you persuade him of the fact that
thousands who had the graphing hooks
ofevil inclination clutched in their soul
| as firmly as in his have been delivered,
then ray Of light will flash across his
vision, and it will seem as If supernat-
ural hand were steadying his staggering
gait.
A good many years ago there lay in
the streets 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 handkerchief and spread it over
his face, and passed on. The man
reused himself up from his debauch,
and began to look at the handkerchief,
and, lol 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-gen of the United States;
but higher than all, he became the con-
seorated disciple of Jesus Christ.
Kind words are SO cheap, 1t is a won
der 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 ex-
hausted- 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 tight BUSH
ness pass, and the Lord delivered you.
TELL HIM TO PUT HIS TRUST IN GOD.
Tell him that Jesus Christ stands beside
every business man in his perplexities.
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
omnipoteut, kind word. Here is a soul
that has been swamped in sin. He wants
to find the light of the Gospel. He feels
like q shipwrecked mariner looking out
over the beach, watching for q sail
against the sky. o, bear down on him.
Tell him that the Lord waits to be grs-
cious to him, and though he has been a
great sinner, there Is great saviour pro-
yided. Tell him that though his sins are
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they are red like crimson, they shall be
as wool. The man is dying for ever for
the lack of one kind word.
There used to be sung at a great mauy
of the pianos through the country song
that has almost died out. 1 wish some.
body would start it aRain in our social
circles. There may not have been very
exquisite art IN the music, but there was
q great and glorious sentiment:
.sKind words never die, never dis;
Cherished and blessed
O., that we might in our femilies and
IN our churches try the force of>kind-
ness You can never drive men, women
or children into Che kingdom of God. A
March northeaster will bring out more
than fretfulness and soold-
ing will bring out Christian grace, I |
wish that in all our religious work we
might be saturated with the spirit of |
kindness. Missing that, we miss great |
deal Of usefulness. There is no need of |
coming out before men and thun dering |
to them the law unless at the same time |
you preach 20 them the Gospel. Do you
know that this simple story OF Saysor's |
kindness ID to redeem all national The |
hard heart OF this world . obduracy ID to |
be broken before that story. There 4 |