Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1890-09-04

may rouse up Lne paSslOn Oh uu lululOTtut ma
ture, nothing less than the attractive power
of Christian kindness can ever raise the death
less spirit to happiness and to God. have
more faith in the prayer of child five years
Md. in the way of bringing Llinfidel hack to
Christ and TO heaven, than L have In all the
Kissing thunderbolts of ecclesiastical contro-
versy.
You cannot overcome men with religious
augmentation. If you come at a skeptical
man with an argument on behalf OF the
Christian religion, you put the man on his
mettle He says: II see that man has car
bine. Pll use my carbine. I'll 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 an
swer it
What have said is just as true in the re-
clamation of the openly vicious. Did you
ever know a drunkard to be saved through
the caricature of drunkard? Your mimicry
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, IL you show him
that you appreciate the awful grip of de-
PRAYED appetite, If you persuade him of the
fact that thousands who had the graphing
hooks of evil inclination clutched in their
soul as firmly as In his have been delivered,
then a ray of light will flash across his
hand was steadying his staggering gait.
A good many years ago there lay in the
streets man dead drunk, his face exposed
to tho blistering MONDAY sun. A Christian
woman passed along, looked at him aud 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 handker-
chief and lo on it was the name OF highly
respectable Christian woman of the city. He
went to her, he thanked her for her kindness,
an 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 cheap it is a wonder we
u thousands OF people VINO 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 think
ing about forgery, about robbery, about sui
eide. Go to that business man. Tell him
that better times are coming and tell him
that you yourself were in a tight business
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 prom
ises 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 swampe1 in sin. He
wants TO find the light of the Gospel. He
feels like a shipwrecked mariner looking out
over the beach, watching for a sail against
the sky. Oh, bear down on him. Tell him
that the Lord waits to De gracious 20 him.
and, though he has been a great sinner
there is a great Saviour provided Tell
nun that though MS sins are as scarlet they
shall be as snow; though they are rcd
like crimson they shall be as WOOL That
man is dying forever for the lack Of one
kind word.
There used to be sung at great many OF
the pianos all through the country a song
that has almost died out. | wish somebody
would start it again in our social circles.
There may have not been very exquisite art
In the music, but there was a grand and
glorious sentiment;
Kind words never die, never die;
Cherished and blessed.
oh, 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 northeaster
will bring out more honeysuckles than fret
fulness and seolding 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 USEFULNESS. luefe Is no uetu OF coming
out before men and laundering 10 them the
law unless at the same time you preach to
them the Gospel Do you not know that this
simple story of a Saviour's kindness Is 20 re
deem all nationsg The hard heart Of this
worlds obduracy is to be broken before that
story.
There is in Antwerp, Belgium, one Of the
most remarkable pictures l ever saw. II Is
THE Descent OF Christ from the Cross II
is one Of Rubens's pictures. No man can
stand and look at that descent from the cross
as Rubens pictured IL, without having his
eyes flooded with tears, IL he have any sensi
bility at ALL It is an overmastering picture
-one that stuns you, and staggers you, and
haunts your dreams. One afternoon man
stood in that cathedral looking at Rubens's
Descent of Christ from the Cross He was
all absorbed in that scene Of Saviour's suf-
| ferings when the janitor came in and said
ut is time to close up the cathedral for tn,
night / wish YOU would DEPART The pill
| grim looking at that Descent of Christ from
the Cross turned around 10 the janitor anC
said; mo, no; not yet Wait until they ge
| Him down.
Oh, it is the story of Saviours suffering
kindness that is to capture the world. WheT
the bones Of that great Behemoth of iniquitl
/ which has trampled all nations shall b.
/ broken and shattered, it will be found ou
that the work was not done by the hammer
of the iconocast or by the sword OF thu
conqueror, or by the torch of persecution
but by the plain, simple, Overwhelming
force of ''the soft tongue that breaketh tn
/ bone"
And now ask the blessing Of God to com
down upon you in matters of health, in mat
ters Of business: that the Lord wiz delive
you from all your financial perplexities; tina
he will give you good livelihood. large sal
aries healthful wages, sufficient income.
pray God that He may give you the oppoI
tunity of educating your children for thi
world, and through the rich grace of on
Lord Jesus Christ of seeing them prepare
for the world that is to come.
Above all, / look for the mercy of Go
upon your immortal souls; and lest | stan
before some who have not yet attended to tn
things Of their eternal interest, in this, tn
closing part of my discourse. / implore ther
here and now TO seek after God and be a
peace with Him. Oh, we want to be gathere
together at last in the bright and blessed a
semblaye of the skies, our work all done, on
sorrows all ended. God bless you, and you
children, and your children's children. An
now commend you TO God and to the wor
of His grace, which is able TO build you u
and give you an inheritance among all thei
that are sanctiied.
Gen. Butler tells story: "Whe
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