Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1891-09-18

motto was due, and the young merchant |
could not meet it, and an old merchant |
went in and got for him three months eN- !
tension, which for the young merchant is
the difference between bankruptcy and |
success in business. And in our street Is
an artist who had fine picture of the |
Rapids of Niagara and he could not sell IL,
and his family were suffering, aud they
themselves were in the rapids; and lady
heard of it and said, Il do not need the
picture, but for the encouragement OF art
and helping you out Of your distress viii
take it, aud on the drawing room wall are
the Rapids of Niagara.
THE AGE or HBLPFULNEss.
"Do you know that II 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 MS they call 1t, and
they have all turned in to help him get his
crops into the garner2 And they tell me
that the older and more skillful reporters
who have permanent positions on papers
are helping the young fellows who are just
beginning to try and don't know exactly
how to do it. And after few erssurcs
and interpretations on the reporters pad
they say; Now here Is n readable account
of that tragedy; hand It in and l am sure
the managing editor will take it,
"And l heard this morning of poor old
man whose three children were in hot de-
bate as to who should take care Of him In
his declining days. The oldest son declared
It was his right because he was the oldest,
and the youngest son said it was his right
because he was the youngest, and Mary
said it was her right because she better
understood fathers vertigo aud rheuma-
tism and poor spells and knew better how
to nurse him, and the only way the diff
Guilty could be settled was by the old mans
promise that he would divide the year into
three parts, and spend third Of his time
with each ons Of them.
"Aud ueighboring stores in the same lire
OF goods on the same block are acting kind
ly to each other and when ne is a little
short Of certain kind Of goods his neigh
Dor says, 4 will help you until you can re-
plenish your shelves 1t seems to me that
those words Of Isaiah are being fulfilled
when he says, The carpenter encouraged
the goldsmith and he that smooths with
the hammer, him that smote the anvil,
saying ii is rendy for the soldering
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old world Is picking up Why, the mil
lennium must be coming IN kindness has
gotten the victory"
Ay hearers you know ana kHo" we
are far from that state of things. But why
not inaugurate a new dispensatiOn Of o.
niality. If we cannot yet have millennium
on large scale, let US have it on a small
scale, and under our own vest me1ts. Kind
ness! If this world Is ever brought 10 God
that Is the thing that VIII DO 1t. You cam
not fret the world mp although you InaY
fret the world down. You cannot scoId 10
into excellence orrelormailon or goodness.
FABLE OF THE WINDS.
Tho east WIND ana the west wind were
one day talking with each other, and tho
east wind sad TO the west wind: 'Dou 3
you wish you had my power? Why, when
| start they hail me by storm signals all
along the coast. | can twist OIL ship 5
mast AS easily as cows hoof cracks an
alder. with one sweep OF my wing have
s'rewn the coast from Newfoundland 10
Key West with parted ship timber. en-
lift and have ilted the Atlantic occ1u.
am the terror Of Pill inNalid'su, ami 70 i-'t
me back forests must we emit down f1r
fires, and the m'nes Of continents are
called on TO iced the furnaces. Under my
breath the nations crouch into sepu.chrrs,
Don you wish you had my power' said
the east wind.
The west wind made no answer, bu.
started on it's mission, coming sOmew here
ont of the rosy bowers of the sky. and all
the rivers and lakes and seas smiled at its
coming. The gardens bloomed, and the
orchards ripened, and the wheat fields
turned their silver into gold, and health
clapped its hands and JOY shouted from
/ the hill tops, and this nations lifted their
| foreheads into the light, and the earth lad
doXology for the sky, and the sky an an
them for tue earth, and the warmth and
! the sparkle, and the gladness and the foil
| age, and the flowers aud the fruits, and
| the beauty and the life, were the only an
| swer the west wind made TO the insolence
OF the east winds interrogation
Kindness TO ALI Surely It ought not &c
be a difficult grace to culture when we see
! towering above the centuries ouch an eX
ample that one glimpse ought to melt and
transform all nations. Kindness brought
our Lord from heaven. Kindness to mis-
creants kindness to prosecutors, kindness
to the crippled and the blind, and the cat
n1a 10 md he larrOnS and tlp III 81 !