Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-09-25

lawyer In that young lawyers once, aud 40
! you know what he is going In there for? Why,
ne Is helping iI up case which is too big for
the young man to handle, and the white
haired attorney is hunting up previous de-
cisions and making out n brief for the boy.
Down at the bank heard yesterday q note
was due, and the young merchant could not
meet it, and an old. merchant went In ana
got for him three months extension, which
Tor the young merchant is the difference be-
tween bankruptcy and success In business.
And In our street Is an artist who had q fine
picture of the Rapids Of Niagara and he
could not sell it, and his family were suffer-
ing, and they themselves were in the rapids
and lady heard CT it and said, L 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
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 neighbors
have made bee as they call il, and they
have all turned in to heIp him get his crops
into the garner? And they tell me that the
older and more skilful reporters who have
permanent positions on papers are helping
try and don't know exactly how to do 1t.
And after few interpretations on the repor-
ters pad they say: Now here is a readable
account Of that tragedy; hand 1t in and 1
am sure the managing editor will take It,
And heard tins morning of n poor old
man whose three children were in hot debate
as to who should take care of him In his de-
Ginning days The oldest son declared 1t 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
dght, because she better understood father &
vertigo and rheumatism and poor spells and
knew better how to nurse him. aud the only
way the difficulty could be settled was by the
old mans promise that he would divide the
year into three parts, aud spend third OF
his time with each one OF them.
And neighbOring stores In the same line
Of goods on the same block are acting kindly
to each other, and when one is a little short
Of a certain kind of goods his neighbor says,
] will help you until you can repleRish your
shelves.' II 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 smUte the anvil, saying it Is ready for
the soldering What is the matter? 1t seems
to me our old world is picking up. Why, the
millennium must be coming in. Kindness
has gotten the victory"
MY hearers, you KNOW ana L KNOW we
are far from that state of things. But why
not inaugurate a new dispensation of ge-
niality. If we cannot yet have a millennium
on large scale, let US have 1t on small
scale. and under our own vestments. Kind
ness! II this world is ever brought to God
that is the thing that will do it. You can
not fret the world up although you may
fret the world down. You cannot scold 1t
into excellence or reformation or godliness.
Kindness to all! Surely 1t ought not to be
4 difficult grace to culture when we see tow
sring above the centuries such an example
hat one glimpse ought to melt and trans
form all nations. Kindness brought our
Lord from heaven. Kindness to miscre-
ants, kindness TO Prosecutors kindness 90
.he crippled and the blind, and the catalep-
tic, and the leprous, and the dropscal, and
the demonaical characterized him all the
way, and on the cross, kindness to the BAN
dts suffering on the side of him, and kind
ness to the executioners while yet they
pushed the spear, and hammered the spikes,
and howled the blasphemies.
And while we take this matchless kindness
from God, may it be found that we have
uttered our last bitter word, written our last
,utting pharagraph, done our last retaliatory
action, felt our last revengeful heart throb.
And 1t would not be bad epitaph for any
Of us il by the grace OF God from this time
forth we lived such beneicent lives that the
tombstone COlSel COUlu appropriately cut
lpon the plain slab that marks our grave
suggestion from the text, HE showed us no
little kindness"
But not until the last child of God has got
Ashore from the eathly storms that drove
him on the rocks like Mediterranean Eu-
roclydons, not until all the thrones of
deaN en- are mounted, and all the conquerors
crowned, and all the harps, trumpets and or
gans OF heaven are thrummed or blown or
sounded, and the ransomed of all climes and
ages are In full chorus under the jubilant
SWING of angelic baton, and we shall
for thousands of years have seen
:he river from under the throne rolling into
he "sea of glass mingled with fire." and
Ibis world we now inhabit shall be SO far ia
The past that only a stretch of celestial
memory can recall that 1t ever existed at all,
not until then will we understand what
Nehemiah calls 1.-The great Kindness" and
David calls "thc marvellous Kindness" aud
Isaiah calls "the everlasting kindness" OF