Connecticut western news., 1891-09-17

clement in which to preach the Gospel The letter gave me my first pulpit pr. Van Vranken has been dead more than thirty years, yet feel the touch of that magnificent old professor. Strange sensation was it when received kind message from Rev Thomas Guard, of Baltimore, the great Methodist orator, six weeks after his death. By way of the eternal worlda Oh. no, by way of this world
 did not meet the friend to whom he gave the message until nearly two months after Thomas Guard had as- cended. So you can start a word about some one that will be on it's travels and vigorous long after the funeral psalm has been sung at your obsequies. Kind nessl Why, if fifty men all aglow with it should walk through the lost world, methinks they would almost abolish perdition.
 INSPIRING EXAMPLES OF KINDNESS
 Furthermore, there is kindness of ac, tion.. That is what Joseph showed to his outrageous brothers That Is what David showed to Mephibosheth for his father Jonathan's sake. That is what Onesiphorus showed to Paul in the Ro. man penitentiary. That Is what Will liam Cowper recognized when he said he would not trust man who would with his foot needlessly crush a worm
 This is what our assassinated Presi- dent Lincoln demonstrated when his private secretary found him in the Capitol grounds trying to get bird back to the nest from which 1t had fallen, and which quality the illustrious man exhibited years before which hay. ing some lawyers in the carriage on the way to court passed on the road a swine fast in the mire, after, awhile cried to his horses, "Hol" and said to the gentlemen, II must go back ano help that hog out of the rnire" And he did go back, and put on solid ground that most uninteresting quad ruped.
 That was the spirit that was mani fested by my departed friend, Honor able Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia l (and lovelier man never exchanged earth for heaven), w,,"n at Washing ton. A senator's Wife. who told my wife of the circumstances, said to him, ''Mr. Stephens. come and see my dead canary bird" And he answered, No, I could not look at the poor thing without crying"
 That is the spirit that Grant showed when at the surrender at Appomattox he said to General Lee, "As many of your soldiers are farmers and will need the horses and mules to raise the crops to keep their families from suffering next winter. let each Confederate who along with him.
 That is the spirit which last night ten thousand mothers showed to their ick children coming to give the drink at the twentieth call as cheerfully and as tenderly as at the first call Sup. pose all this assemblage, and all to whom these words shall come by print CTS type, should resolve to make kind ness an overarching, undergirding and all pervading principle of their life. and then carry out the resolution, why, in six months the whole earth would feel 1t. People would say:
 What is the matter! It seems to me that the world is getting to be better place to live in. Why, life after all is worth living. Why, there is Shylock. my neighbor, has withdrawn his law suit of foreclosure against that man, and because he has had so much sick. ness in his family, he is going to have the house for one year rent free. There Is an old lawyer in that young lawyers office, and do you know what he has gone in there fort Why. he is helping fix up a case which is too big for the young man to handle. and the white haired attorney is hunting up previous decisions and making out brief for the boy.
 "Down at the bank I heard yester day a note was due, and the young merchant could not meet it. and an old merchant went In and got for him three months extension. which for the young merchant is the difference between bankruptcy and success In business And in our street is all artist who had fine picture of the Rapids of Niagara. and he could not sell it, and his family were suffering, and they were them selves in the rapids; and n lady heard of it and said, I do not need the picture. but for the encouragement ol art and helping you out of your dis tress will take it. and on the drawing room wall are the Rapids of Niagara.
 Do you know that q strange thin. has taken place in the pulpit and al the old ministers are helping the young ministers and all the old doctors ar. helping the young doctors, and the farmers are assisting each other il gathering the harvest and for thai farmer who is sick the neighbors have made bee. as they call it. and they have all turned in to help him get hi crops into the garner7
 AN ALMOST INCREDIBLE INSTANCE.
 And they tell me that the older ant more skillful reporters who have per,na nent positions on papers are helping the young fellows who are just begin ing to try and don't know exactly how to do it. And after a few erasure and interpolations on the reporters pad they say Now. here is Il readabl, account of that tragedy Hand 1t il and l aln sure the managing edito