Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-07-19

along the lines which Christ lays down
must persuade and not compel, must be {
willing union, with no hard words and nc
hard hands, encouraging the liberty of all
men and paying no court to tyranny. ''Give,
and it shall be given unto you," must be
| the formula of its faith and its hope. And
"good measure, pressed down, and shaken
together, and running over" will be its
sure reward.
| The kingdom of God has no place in the
Biographies The kingdom of God is in
| the hearts of men. You know how they
used to ask Christs in the old days, over
and over, when the kingdom of God should
| come. But he set no date. For the king
| dom of God, the millennium, the reign OF
| righteousness, begins whenever and wher-
| ever any man or woman stops uttering un-
| kind judgments and uncalled-for condem-
nations, and begins with new earnestness
to give and forgive.
When Earth VIII Be Heaven.
And the kingdom of God will fully come,
and earth will be given another name and
be christened heaven, on the very day
when all the men and all the women who
live upon it shall have learned that lesson
of eternal love.
And so you see it depends, as said, not
upon princes, not upon parliaments, not
upon saints, not upon socialists, but just
upon our own individual selves when the
millennium shall come. Not from without,
but from within, is reformation to be looked
for. Not by new law, but by new love, is
society to be uplifted, and converted, and
set right And you and l must make the
beginning.
Don't wait. Don't look for leaders. Be
gin yourself Judge not, and see how soon
you will stop hearing unkind comments.
Condemn not, and notice what new toler-
ance and charity will come into the speech
of all who talk with you. Forgive, and ye
shall be forgiven, and your example will
awaken, though you may not know it, new
sense of the possibility Of forgiveness. Give,
and 1t shall be given unto you Every
body you know will begin giving.
Experience of a Traveller.
James Freeman Clarke describes in his
fragment of autobiography a journey from
Massachusetts, to Kentucky in the days be-
fore the railroad He noticed, he says, that
the tone of a stage-coach party often de-
pends upon the temper of q single individ-
ual. A cross, ill-natured, complaining fell
low would make oil the other passengers
cross, ill-natured and complaining.
"Once," he says, "when going through
the Cattaraugus woods, where the road was
mostly deep mire or rough corduroy, and
there was every temptation to be cross and
uncomfortable, one man SO enlivened and
entertained our party, and was so accommo-
dating and good-natured, that we seemed to
be having pleasant picnic, and the other
inmates of the coach took the same tone. T
therefore found it best, for my own sake,
as soon as we took our place in the coach
for long journey, to manifest an interest
in my fel1ow-passengers and their comfort;
offering, for example, to change places with
them if they. preferred my seat to their
own, and paying them such little attentions
as are always agreeable 1t happened
almost always that the other passengers
would follow this lead and take pains to be
civil and accommodating.
Is not that a parable of human life?
Widen out stage-coach and you get a
And set down one indi-
vidual in that neighborhood who tries
good many times every day to do what |
Christ says, and you get glimpse of the
That is how the millennium |
beginS GEORGE HODGES