The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1890-09-04

on the ..Evldences OF Christianity " have their,
mission In confirming Christian people In the
faith they have already adopted, have no.
ticed that when sceptical people are brought
into the kingdom OF Christ, ii Is through the
charm OF some genial soul, and not by argu..
ment Mt oil. &
Men are not saved through the head they
are saved through the heart. Astorm comes
out OF the hiding place. 1t says: .Now
We'll just rouse up all this sea-" and it makes
great bluster; but it docs not succeed.
Part OF the sea Is ronsedl up-perhaps one
halt OF it, or one.touIth of it. After a, while
he calm moon placid and beautiful, looks
down, and the ocean begins TO rise 1t comes
mp to highwater mark. 1t embraces the
headlands. 1t is the heart throb of the
world against the heart throb OF another
world And | have to tell you that while all
your storms Of ridicule and storms of sar-,
casm may rouse up the passion of an. i'm,
power OF Christian kindness Gun ever raise
the spirit TO happiness and to God. Ihave
more faith in the prayer of a child 5 years
old, in the way OF bringing an intidel back to,
Christ and to heaven, than have in all the
kissing thunderbolts ofecclesiastical contro.
versy.
What have said is just as true in the re.
clama alton OF the openly vicious. Did. you
ever know q drunkard to BIZ saved through
the caricature ola drunkard? Your mimi.
cry OF the staggering step, and the thick
tongue. and the disgusting hiccough, only
to him in kindness and sympathy; if you
show him you appreciate the awful grip of q
depraved appetite; you persuade him of
the fact that thousands who had the grap-
ping hook of evil inclination clutched in,
their soul as firmly as in his have been de-
livered, then ray Of light will fash across
his vision, and it will seem as If a SUPER
natural hand were steadying his staggering
gait.
good many years ago there lay in the
streets q man dead drunk, his face, exposed
to the bistering MONDAY sun. A Christian
woman passed along, looked at him; and
said: poor fellow" She took her hand
kerchiefand spread it over his face, and
passed on. The man reused himself up from
his debauch and began to look ut the hand
kerchief, and, 10! on it was the name of a
highly respectable Christian woman OF the
city. He went to her, he thanked her former
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
than all, he became the consecrated disciple
OF Jesus Christ
Kind words are SO oh cap, it is 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 u 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 tight
business pass, and the Lord delivered you
Tell him to put his trust in God. Tell him
that Jesus Christ stands beside every bust
nesssman in his perplexities. Tell him of the
sweet promises Of Gods comforting or ace
That man is dying for the lack Of Just one
one saving opnipotent, kind word.
Here is a soul that has been swamped in
sin. He wants to find the light of the gospel
He feels like a shipwrecked mariner looking
over the beach, watching for 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 Savior 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 the lack of me kind word =,
There used to be sung at great many of
the pianos all through the country q song
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 sentiment: .-... .....r r.
"Kind words never die, never die;
Cherished and blessed.''
0, that We might in our families and in our
churches try the force of kindness You can
kingdom of God. A March northeastern will
bring out m ore honeysuckles than lretfulness
and scoldlng will bring out Christian grace
wish that in all our religious work we might
be saturated with the spirit OF kindness
Missing that, we miss great deal of useful
ness. 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. Did you not know this simple story
o. SaVlor's kindness to redeem all nations?
The hard heart of this worlds obduracy is
to be broken before that story. There is in
A Ant, Belgium, one OF the most remark
able pictures ever saw. 1t is ''The Descent
OF Christ from the Cross tits one of the
Ruben's pictures. No man can stand and
look at that Descent from the Cross" as
Rubens pictured it, without having his eyes
flooded with tears, if he have any sensibility
at all. 1t is an overmastering picture-one
That stuns you, and staggers y GU, and haunts
your dreams One afternoon, a man stood
In that catheral looking at Rubens' ''De.
scent from the Cross" He was all absorb
cd IN that scene OF a Savior's sufferings when
he janitor came in and said: "It is time to
ciose up the cathedral for tho night. l wish
you would depart" Ire pilgrim looking at
that Descent from the Cross" turned
around to the janitor and said: tNo, no;
not yet. Wait until they get Him down.
u, it is the story of Savior's suffering
kindness that is to capture the world. When
the bones of that great Behemoth of eniqui-
tty which has trampled all nations shall be
broken and shattered, it will be found out
that the work was not done by the banner
o! the icon Oclast, or by the sword of the con-
quorer or by the plain simple, overwhelm-
ing force OF 'the soft tongue that breaketh the
bone"
Killed for a Lamb.