The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-09-25

matox he said TO 6enersl Lee, .As
many Of your soldiers are farmers and
viii need the horses and Bales 70 raise
the crops to keep their families from
suffering next winter let each conieder-
ate who can claim q horse or q mule
take Ii 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 rs cheerfully and as
tenderly as at the first call. Suppose
all this aesemblage, ard all to whom
these words shall come by printers type,
should resolve TO make kindness an
overarching. undergirding and all-per-
vading principle OF their life, and then
carry out the resolution, why, in six
months the whole earth would feel it.
People would say, What is the matter?
1t seems tn NE that the world is getting
10 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withdrawn his lawsuit of foreclosure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 for:
Why, he is helping fix up case which
is too big for the young man to handle,
and the white-haired attorney is hunt
ing up previous decisions and making
out brief for the boy.
Down at the bank | heard yestel 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 mer-
chant is the diffesence between bank
ruptcy and success in business. And in
our street is an artist who had fine
he could not sell it, and his family were
suffering, and they were themselves in
the rapids, and lady heard of it and
said: I do not need the picture. but
for the encouragement OF art and help
ing you out of your distress l 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 assisting
each other In gathering the harvest,
and for that farmer who is sick the
neighbors have made q 'bee,' Is they
call it, and they have ell turned in to
help him get his crops into the garner.
And they tell me that the older and
more skillfu. reporters who have per-
msnent positions on papers are help
ing the young fellows who are just be-
ginning to try and don't know exactly
how to do it And after few erasures
and interpretations on the reporters
pad they say: Now here is a readible
account of that tragedy; hand it in and
am sure the managing editor will take
it, And l heard this morning Of q
poor old man whose three children were
in hot debate as to who would take care
OF him in his declining days. The old
est son declared it was his right because
he was the eldest, and the youngest son
it was his right because he was the
youngest, and Mary said it was her
right because she better understood
fathers vertigo, and rheumatism, and
poor spells, and knew better how 10
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 of them.
And neighboring stores inl the same
line of goods on the same block are
acting kindly to each other. 1t seems
to ne that those words of Isaiah are
being fulfilled when he says: The
carpenter encouraged the goldsmith,
snd he that smoothes with the ham
mer. him that sufote the anvil. saying,
it is ready for the soldering. What is
the matter? 1t seems 70 me our world
is picking up. Why, the millennium
must be coming in. Kindness has got
ten the victory"
Ny hearers. you know and know We
are far from that state of things. But
why not inaugurate an new dispense
ton geniality. If we can not yet have
a millennium on 'arge scale, let Us have
it on small scale and under our own
vestments. Kindness! II this world is
ever brought to God that is the thing
that will do ii. You can not fret the
world up although you may fret the
world down. You can not scold il into
excellence or reformation or goodli-
ness