Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1891-09-14

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 a bee, as they call it, and they
have all turned in to help him get his
crops into the garner?
AN ALMOST INCREDIBLE INSTANCE.
'And they tell Inc that the older and
more skillfu1 reporters who have perlna-
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 few erasures
and interpretations on the reporters
pad they say Now, here is a readable
account of that tragedy. Hand it in
and l am sure the managing editor
will take it. And | heard this morn
ing of a poor old man whose three chill
dren were in hot debate as to who
should take care of him in his declining
days.
1.-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 and rheu-
matism and poor spells, and knew bet
ter how to nurse him, and the only way
the difficulty 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 one
of them.
''And neighboring stores in the same
line of goods on the same block are act
ing kindly to each other, and when one
is little short of a certain kind of
goods, his neighbor says, I will help
you until you can replenish 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, 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. Kind
ness has gotten the victory"
My hearers, you know and know
we are far from that state of things.
But why not inaugurate a new dispen-
sation of geniality2 If we cannot yet
have a millennium on a large scale, let
us have it on small scale, and under
our own vestments. Kindnessl If this
world is ever brought to God that is
the thing that will do it. You cannot
fret the world up, although you may
tho 7
it into excellence or reformation or god
illness.
The east wind and the west wind
were one day talking with each other,
and the east wind said to the west
wind: Don't you wish you had my
power? Why, when 1 start they hail
me by storm signals all along the coast.
can twist off ships mast as easily as
a cows hoof cracks an alder With
one sweep of my wing have strewn
the coast from Newfoundland to Key
West with parted ship timber. L can
lift and have lifted the Atlantic ocean.
| am the terror of all invalidism, and
to fight me back forests must be cut
down for fires, and the mines of con-
tinents are called on to feed the fur
naces. Under my breath the nations
crouch into sepulchers, Don't you
wish you had my powerY said the east
wind
The west wind made no answer, but
started on its mission. coming some
where out 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 hilltops, and
the nations lifted their foreheads into
the light, and the earth had a doxol-
ogy for the sky, and the sky an anthem
for the earth, and the warmth, and the
sparkle, and the gladness, and the
foliage, and the flowers, and the fruits,
and the beauty, and the life were the
only answer the west wind made to
the insolence of the east winds inter
rogation.
JOHN HOWARD, FLORENCE NIGHTIN-
GALE AND IDA LEWIS.
Kindness to ALL Surely it ought not
to be a difficult grace to culture when
we see towering above the centuries
such an example that one glimpse of it
ought to melt and transform all ma
tons. Kindness brought our Lord
from heaven. Kindness to miscreants,
kindness to prosecutors, kindness to the
crippled, and the blind, and the cata-
leptic, and the leprous, and the drop
sical and the demoniacal characterized
him all the way, and on the cross,
kindness to the the bandits suffering on
the side of him, and kindness to the
executioners while yet they pushed the
spear, and hammered the spikes, and
howled the blasphemies.
All the stories of the John Towards,
and the Florence Nightingales, and the
Grace Darlings, and the Ida Lewises
pale before the transcendent example
of him whose birth and life and death !
are the greatest story that the world
ever heard, and the theme of the
mightiest hosanna that heaven ever
lifted. Yea, the very kindness that
allowed both hands to be nailed to the |
horizontal timber of the cross with that |
cruel thumpl thump now stretches
down from the skies those same hands |
flled with balm for all our wounds, |
forgiveness for all our crimes, rescue
for all our serfdoms.
And while we take this matchless
kindness from God, may it be found
that we have uttered our last bitter
word written our last cutting para
graph, done our last retaliatory action,
felt our last revengeful heart throb.
And it would not be bad epitaph for
any of US if by the grace of God from
this time forth we lived such beneficent |
lives that the tombstone's chisel could
cut upon the plain slab
that marks our grave a suggestion from
the text, He showed us no little
kindness"
But not until the last child of God |
has got ashore from the earthly storms |
that drove him on the rocks like Medi- |
terranean Euroclydons, not until all |
the thrones of heaven are mounted, and |
all the conquerors crowned and all the
harps and trumpets and organs of
heaven are thrummed or blown or
sounded, and the ransomed of all