The Red Cloud chief., 1891-09-25

a good word for some me speak it. II
you can co~nscientiou.ly give a letter OF
recommendation, give it Watch for
opportunities for doing good fifty year,
after you are dead. All nv life has
been affected by the letter Of introduc-
ton that Rev. DR.. Van Vranken, Of
New Brunswick theological seminary.
wrote for me, a boy under him, when l
was seeking a settlement in which 10
preach the gospel. That letter gave
me my first pulpit, DIR. Van Vrsnken
has been dead more than thirty years,
yet | feel the touch of that magnificent
old professor.
Strange sensation was II when ] re-
csived a kind message from Rev.
Thomas Guard. of Baltimore, the great
Methodist orator, six weeks after his
death. BY way of the eternal world?
o. no. by way of thi. world did not
meet the friend 70 whom he gave the
message until nearly two months after
Thomas Guard had assembled So you
can start a word about some N that
will be on its travels and vigorous long
after the funeral psalm has been sung
at your obseauies. Kindness, Why IL
Fifty men all aglow with it should walk
through the lost world. methinks they
would almost abolish perdition-
Furthermore, there is kindness OF
action. That is what Joseph showed
TO his outrageous brothers That is
what David showed 20 Mephibosheth
for his father Jonathan's sake. That
is what Onesiphorus showed to Paul in
the Roman penitentiary. That is what
William Cowper recognized hcn ne
said he would not trust a man who
would with his foot needlessly crush q
worm. That is what our assassinated
President Lincoln demonstrated when
his private secretary found him IN
the capitol grounds trying %
get a bird back to the nest from
which it had fallen. and which
quality the illustrious man exhibited
wears before when having with some
lawyers in the carriage on the way 70
court passed or the cad a swine fast
in the mire, after awhile cried u IN.
horses "Ho!' and said to the gentlemen:
Il must go back and help that hog out
| of the mire." And ne did go back and
put on solid ground hat most uninter-
esting auadruped That was the spirit
that was manifested 10y nv departed
friend. Hon Alexander II. Stephens, OF
Georgia land lovelier man never ex-
changed earth for Heaven), when ut
Washington. A senator's wife who
told my wife of the circumstances said
= IL. G-a aa".A aud Aaa
nv dead canary bird" And he an
swered: mo. / could not look At the
poor thing without crying. That Is
the spirit that Grant showed when al
the surrender at Appomatox he said 10
Gen. Lee: As many OF your soldiers
are farmers and will need the horses
and mules TO raise the crops TO keep
their families from suffering next win
ter, let each confederate who can claim
a horse or a mule take IL along with
him"
That Is the spirit which last night
ten thousand mothers showed Ia theii
sick children, coming to give the drlnh
at the twentieth call a. checrfully and
as tenderly "a at the first call. Suppose
all this assem- lage, anu all u whom
these words shall come by printers
type, should resolve 10 make kindness
an overarching, undergirding and al
pervading principle of their life, anc
then carry u the resolution, why, II
six months the whole earth would fee
IT, People would saw: What Is the
matter? II seems to me that the world
is getting 10 be "A better place to live In
Why, life after all il worth living
Why. there is Shylock. my neighbor
has withdrawn his lawsuit of fore
closure against that man, aud because
he has had so much sickness in ms
family he is going To have the houss
for one veal rent free. There Il an oil
lawyer il that young lawyers Office
and do you know what ne has gone II
there for? Why. he is helping fix al
a case which is too big for the youni
nan to handle, and h white
haired attorney is hunting up pre-
vious decisions and making out
brief for the boy. Down at TIT
bank | heard yesterday a note was du'
aud the young merchant could not NEE
il. and an old merchant went in an
got for him three months extension
which for the young merchant Is tn
difference between bankruptcy an
success in business. And in our stree
is an artist who had a fine picture o
the rapids Of Niagara. and he could no
sell il, and his family were suffering
and they were themselves in the rapids
and a lady heard Of il and said: Il d
, not need the picture, but for the encour
agement of art and helping you out o
your distress I will take il" and on tn
drawing room wall are the rapids o
i, Niagara 10 you know that a strang
thing has taken place in the pulpit an
|, all the old ministers are helping tn
young ministers Inc all the old doctor
are helping the young doctors and IN
farmers are assisting each other II
, gathering the harvest. and for tina
I farmer who is sick the neighbcrs hav'
: made a bee as they call IT. and the.
> have ali turned in 10 help him get hi
4: crops into the garner
Nv hearers. you know and ! kno'
we are far from that state of thing
But why not inaugurate a new dispeu
$ sation of geniality.
Kindness 20 all! Surely IL ought no
/ 70 he a difficult grace TO culture whe
, we see towering above the centurie
= such an example that one glimpse OF
: ought TO melt and transform all n,
tons Kindness brought our Lor
from Heaven. Kindness 70 miscreant,
? kindness TO prosecutors, kindness I
, the crippled and the blind and the eats
: leptic and the leprous and the dropsica
: and the demoniacal characterized Hir
? all the way. and on the cross kindne.
o to the bandits suffering on the side {
Him, and kindness 10 the eNecutionei
5 while yet they pushed the spear. an
I hammered the spikes, and howled IN
Y blasphsmies
e All the stories Of the John Howard
and the Florence Nightingales and III
r Grace narlings and the Ida Lewis
II pale before this transcendent exampl
of Him whose birth and life aud deaf
are the greatest story that The worl
h ever heard. and the theme Of II
miChtiest hosanna that Heaven ev,
p lifted Yea the very kindness IN,