Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1891-09-18

with some evil decd At the first story the
pessimist will believe in guilt. 1.-The papers
said so, and that's enough. Down with
himp
OPTMlsr AND PEssIAusT.
The optimist will say; u don't believe
word of IL. / don't think TIT a man that
has been rs useful and seeSengly honest
for twenty years could have got on the
track like that. There are two sides to this
story, and l will wait to hear the other
side before l condemn him" My nearer,
ii you are by mature a pessimist, make a
special effort by the grace Of God to exttr-
pate the dolorous and the hypercritical
from your disposition. Believe nothing
against anybody until the wrong Is estab-
lished by at least two witnesses Of integ-
rity. And II guilt be proved, find out the
extenuating circumstances II there are
any.
And then commit to memory so that you
can quote for yourself and quote Tor others
that exquisite thirteenth chapter OF First
Corinthians about charity that suffers
long and is kind, and hOpeth all things
and endureth all things. BY pen, by voice,
in public and IN private, say all the good
about people yon can think OF. and u there
be nothing good, then tighten the chain OF
muscle on the back end OF your tongue,
and keep The ivory bars OF teeth on the
lower Jaw and the ivory bars Of teeth on the
upper jaw locked and the gate Of your lips
tightly closed aud your tongue shut up.
What place Brooklyn would be to live
in, and all the other cities and neighbOT-
ho&ls to live in, Il charity dominatedi
What If all the young and old gossipers
were dead! The Lord hasten their funeralsi
What If tittle-tattle and whispering were
ont OF fashion! What II IN ciphering out
the value Of other peoples character, in
our moral arithmetic, we stuck 10 addition
instead of subtraction! Kindness! Let US
morning, noon and night pray for It until
we yet It, When you can speak good
word for some one speak it. II You can
eonscientiously give letter Of commenda-
ton, give II. Watch for opportunities for
doing good fifty years after you are dead.
All my life has been affected by the let
ter Of introduction that the Rev, Dr. Van
Vranken, Of New Brunswick Theological
seminary, wrote for me, boy under him,
when was seeking a settlement in which
to preach the Gospel. The letter gave me
my first pulpit. DR.. Van Vranken has
been dead more than thirty years, yet 4
feel the touch Of that magnificent old pro
fessOr. Strange sensation was IL when
received kind message from Rev. Thomas
Guard, Of Baltimore, the great Methodist
orator, six weeks after his death. By way
of the eternal world! Oh, no, by way Of
this world. l did not meet the friend to
whom he gave the message until nearly
two months after Thomas Guard had as
oemded. So you can start word about
some one that will be on its travels and
vigorous long after the funeral psalm has
been sung at your Obsequies. kindnessl
Why, II fifty men all aglow with IL should
walk through the lost world, methinks
they would almost abolish perdition.
TOUCHING ANRCDOTE OF ABRAHAM LINCOLN.
Furthermore, there is kindness Of action.
That is what Joseph showed to his out
rageous brothers. That is what David
showed to Mephibosheth for his father
Jonathan's sake That is what OuesiphOr-
us showed to Paul in the Roman peniten-
tiary. That is what William COwper
recognized when he said he would not
trust a man who would with his foot need
lessly crush a worm. That is what our
assassinated President Lincoln demon
strated when his private secretary found
him in the Capitol grounds trying to get a
bird back to the nest from which il had
fallen, and which quality the illustrious
man exhibited years before, when having
with some lawyers in the carriage on the
way to court passed on the road swine
fast in the mire, after awhile cried to his
horses, "LIO" and said to the gentlemen
81 must go back and help that hog out OF
the mire." And he did 60 back and put
on solid ground that most embarrassing
quadruped.
That was the spirit that was manifested
by my departed friend, Honorable Alexan-
der H. Stephens. OF Georgia land lovelier
man never exchanged earth for heaven,
when at Washington. A senator's wife
who told my wife Of the circumstances,
said to him, "Mr Stephens, come and see
nv dead canary bird" And he answered,
"No, 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 can claim
a horse or a mule take It along with him.
That is the spirit which, last night, ten
thousand mothers showed to their sick
children coming to give the drink at the
twentieth call as cheerfully and as tenderly
as at the first call.
Suppose all this assenlblage, and all TO
whom these words shall come by printers
tyne, should resolve to make kindness an
overarching, undergirding and all pervad-
ing principle OF their life, and then carry
out the resolution-why, in six months the
whole earth would feel il. People would
say; =. .. e., 80
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 lawsuit OF
foreclosure against that man, and because
he has had so much sickness 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 fori 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 de-
cisions and milking out Il brief for the boy.
Down ut the bank | heard yesterday a
note was due, and the young merchant
could not meet it, and an old merchant
went in and got for him three months eX-
tension, which for the young merchant Is
the difference between bankruptcy and
success in business. And in our street Is
an artist who hau Mne picture OF Tue
Rapids Of Niagara and he could not sell it,
and his family were suffering, and they
themselves were in the rapids; and lady
heard Of it and said I do not need the
picture, but for the encouragement Of art
and helping you out of your distress | will
take it, and on the drawing room wall are
the Rapids OF Niagara
TIE AGE OF uELPFULNEss
"Do you know that strange thing has
taken place in the pulpit and all the old
ministers are helping the young ministers
and all the old doctors are helping the
young doctors, and the farmers are assist
ing each other in gathering the harvest
and for that farmer who Is sick the neigh
bors have made bee. rs they call it, and
they have all turned in to help him get bis
crops into the garnery And they tell me
that the older and more skillful reporters
who have permanent positions on paperi
are helping the young fellows who are jusi
beginning to try and don't know exactly
how to do it. And after few erasurc'
and interpretations on the reporters pat
they say: Now here is a readable account