Weekly expositor. (Brockway Centre, Mich.) 1882-1894, 1890-08-29

mark. IL embraces the great headlands. 10
submerges the beaches OF all the contl-
nents. 1t Is the heart-throb OF one world
against the heart-throb of another world.
And have Ia tell you that whilo all your
storms OF ridicule ard storms OF sarcasm
may rouse up the passions of an immortal
nature, nothing less than the attractive
power of christian kindness can ever raise
the deathless spirit to happiness and to
God. / have more faith in the prayer OF a
child Ave years old, In the way of bringing
an in6del back to Christ and TO heaven,
than l have In all the kissing thunder
bolts of ecclesiastical controversy.
You cannot overcome men with religious
augmentation. If you come at a sceptical
man with an argument on behalf Of the
christian religion, you put the man on his
mettle. He says: Il sec that man has n
carbine. I'll use my carblne. 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 10 come, he
cannot answer IL.
What have said, is just as true in the
reclamation OF the openly vicious. Did you
ever know a drunkard to be saved through
the caricature9of drunkard? Your mim-
icry of the staggering step, the thick tongue
and the disgusting hiccough only worse
maddens his brain. But IL you come TO him
in kindness and sympathy; IL you show him
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PRAYED appetite; IL you persuade him that
thousands who had the graphing hooks of
evil inclination clutched in their soul as
firmly as I'm his have been delivered, then n
ray OF light will flash across his vision, and
IL will sc IN as II supernatural hand were
steadying his staggering gait
A good many years ago there lay in the
streets a 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
kerchief spread 1t over his face, and passed
on. The man reused himself from his de-
bauch, and began to look at the handkerchief,
and, 10! on IL was the name of "a highly re-
spectacle christian woman of the city. He
went 20 her, he thanked her for her kind
ness; and that one little deed saved him
for this life, and saved him for the life to
come. He was afterward encouragement
OF the United States; but, higher than ALL
he became the consecrated disciple OF Jesus
Christ.
Kind words are so cheap, It is n wonder
we do not use them oftener. There are
tens OF thousands of people who arc 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
suicide. Co 20 that business man. Tell
him that better times arc coming. and tell
him that you yourself were in tight bust
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 I'm his perpleXitles 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, Omnipotent, kind word Here
is a soul that has been swamped in sin. He
wants to find the light OF the gospel. lie
feels like n shpwrecked mariner looking
out over the beach, watching for a 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 Saviour provided. Tell him
that though his sins are as scarlet, they
shall be as snow; though they are red like
crimson, they shall he IA wool. That man
is dying for ever for the lack one kind
word.
There used 10 be sung at great many OF
the pianos all through the country a song
that has almost died out | wish somebody
would start IL again I'm our social circles.
There may not have been very exquisite art
in the music but there was a grand and
glorious sentiment:
kind words never die, never die;
Cherished and blessed"
O,that We might in our families and I'm our
churches try the force OF kindness. You
can never drive men, women or children into
the kingdom of God A March north-easter
will bring out more hOneysuckles than fret
fulness and scolding will bring out christian
grace. / wish that in all our religious work
we might be saturated with the spirit OF
kindness. There Is no neod of coming cut
before men and laundering TO them the law
unless at the same time you preach 70 them
the Gospel. Do you not know that this SIM
pie story OF a Savior's kindness Is to redeem
all nations? The hard heart Of the world +
oh 20 10 ha hp.,E at, haf hot az.
There is in Antwerp, Belgium, one of the most
remarkable pictures ! ever saw. IL is THE
Descent Of Christ from the Cross" Ii
Is one OF Rubens' pictures. No man can
stand and look at that Descent from the
Cross" Ms Rubens pictured IL, without
having his eyes flooded with tears, II he
have any sensibility at all. 1t Is an over
mastering picture-one that stuns you, and
staggers you, and haunts your dreams. One
afternoon a man stood In that cathedral
looking at Rubens' Descent from the
Cross" He was all absorbed In that scene
of Saviour's sufferings when the janitoI
came in and said: 1t is time to close up
the cathedral for the night. l wish you
would depart" The pilgrim looking al
that Descent from the Cross" turned
around to the janitor and said; mo, no;
not yet. Wait until they got Him down"
o, IL is the story of Savour's suffering
kindness that is 60 capture the world. Wher
tie bones OF tuaJ great BencmOtn oil
iniquity which has tramplcd all nations
shall be broken and shattered, it will be
found out that the work was not done by
the hammer of the iconoclast, or by the
sword of the conquoror, or by the torch OF
persecution. but by the plain. simple, over
whelming force Of 1.-THE soft tongue that
breaketh the bone"
And now l ask the blessing of God TO como
down upon you in matters OF health, In
matters Of business that the Lord will de-
liver you from all your financial perplexi-
ties; that lie will give you a good liveli-
hood, large salaries, healthful wages ufli-
cient income. pray God that he may Civ,
| you the opportunity OF educating your chill
dren for this world, and. through the ricf
grace OF our Lord Jesus Chrish, seeing then
prepared for the world that Is TO come
Above all, ] look for tho mercy OF God upor
your immortal souls; and lest 1 stanC
| before some who have not attended TO tn,
| things of their eternal interest, In this, tho
! closing part OF my discourse, implore then
here and now To seek after God and be al
| peace with Him. o, we want TO be gathered
together ut last in the bright and glorious
| assemblage of the Skies our work all done
| our sorrows all ended. God bless you, anC
your children, and your childrcn's children
And now ! commend you to God nd to thu
word OF His Grace which is able to builC