The Red Cloud chief., 1890-09-05

soft tongue that breaketh the bone."
pass now 70 tho other thought tha'
] desire to present and that Ia kind
ness 8 means Of usefulness. In al
communities you find skeptical men
Through early education, or through
the ~maltreatment Of professed ChristiaE
people. or through prying curiosity
about the future world, there are great
many people who become skeptical In
religious things How shall you capture
them for God? Sharp argument and
sarcastic retort never won . single soul
from skepticisn to the Christian relig-
ION While powerful books ON the
Evidences Of Christianity" have their
mission in confirming Christian people
in the faith they have already adopted.
I have noticed that when ~skeptical peo-
pie arc brought into the Kingdom Of
Christ It is through the charm of genial
soul and not by argument at all Men
are not saved through the head; they arc
saved through the heart A storm comes
out Of its hiding place. 1t says: "NOw
we'll just rouse up all this sea-" and 1t
makes . great buster. but 1t does not
succeed. Part OF the 9 is reused up
perhaps one half Of 1t or one-fourth Of
it. After q while the calm moon, placid
and beautiful. looks down, and the ocean
begins to rise. 1t comes up to high
water mark. 1t embraces the great
headlands. 1t submerges the beaches
Of all the continents. 1t is the 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
arcasm may rouse up the passion Of an
immortal nature. nothing less than the
attractive power of Christian kindness
can ever raise the deathless spirit to
and to God. ! have more
faith in the prayer Of q child five years
old, in the way OF bringing ar infdel
back to Christ and to Heaven, than
have in all the kissing thunderbOlts of
ecclesiastical controversy.
You car not overcome men with re-
ligiOus augmentation. II you come at
a skeptical man with an argument on
behalf Of the Christian religion, you
put the nan On his mettle. lie says:
II see that man has a carbine. I'll use
my carbine. I'll answer his argument
with my argument" But IL you come
to that man. ~persuading him that you
his happiness on earth. and his
welfare in the world to come,
ne can moi answer it.
What l have said is just as true in the
of the openly vicious Did
you ever know a drunkard to be saved
tho ~caricature of a drunkard?
Your imicry of the staggering step,
and the thick tongue, and the disgust
ing hiccough. only worse maddens his
brain. But if you come to him in kind
and sympathy; il you show him
you appreciate the awful grip of a
aepraved appetite; if you persuade him
Of the fact that thousands who had the
graphing hooks of evil inclination
in their sOul as firmly as in his
have been delivered, then a ray of light
will fash across his vision, and it will
seem as if a supernatural hand were
his gait
"SoVu many yV"iS dBu tucEo lay Al
streets q man dead drunk, his face
exposed to the blistering noon day sun.
Christian woman passed along, looked
1t him, and said: ''PoOr fellow" She
look m handkerchief and spread it
his face. and passed on. The man
himself up from hisdebauch, and
to look at the handkerchief, and.
@! on it was the name Of a highly re-
'pectablc Christian woman of the city.
lie vent Oh her. he thanked her for her
xindncss, and that one little deed saved
lin for this life and saved him for the
ife that is to come. lie was afterward
OF the United States,
nut, higher than all. he became the con-
disciple of Jesus Christ
Kind words are 10 cheap it is q won
ler VIC do not use them ~Oftener. There
re G n Of thousands of people who are
wing for the lack Of one kind word.
there is a business man who has fought
Igainst trouble until he is perfectly ex-
lie has been thinking about
about robbery, about suicide.
20 to that business man. Tell him that
times are coming, and tell him
hat you yourself were in a tight bust
less pass and the Lord delivered you. |
Fell him to put his trust in God. Tell
lin that Jesus Christ stands beside
very business man in his p~erplexities.
Tell him of the sweet promises of Gods
grace. That man is dying
or the lack of just one kind work. 60
and utter that one saving. |
kind word. Here is a soul
hat has been swamped in sin. lie wants
o find the light Of the Gospel. He feels
q shipwrecked mariner looking out
the beach. watching for q sail
gainst the sky. O. bear down ON him.
Tell him that the Lord waits to 10 gra-
.ou to him. and though he has been .
sinner there is q great Saviour
Tell him that though his
are IS scarlet they shall be as snow, |
hough they are red like crimson they
hall be as wool. That man is dying
orever for the lack Of one kind word.
There used to be sung at . great
many OF the planes all through the
a song that has almost died out
wish somebody would start it again in
social circles There may not have
cen very exquisite art in the music,
ut there was grand and glorious senti-
lent:
Kind words never die. never die;
Cherished and blessed"
o, that We might in our families and
u churches try the force of kind
ess. You can never drive, men,
or children into the Kingdom of
A March northeaster will bring
ut more honeysuckles than ~fretfulness
nd scolding will bring out Christian
race. wish that in oil our religious
'Ork we might be saturated with the
pirit Of kindness Missing that, We
a great deal of usefulness There
70 need OF coming ont before men
nd laundering to them the law unless
t the same time you preach to them
ne Gospel.
DO You not know that this simple
Of q Savionr's kindness is to re-
eem all nations? The hard heart Of
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