The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-09-22

to their sick children coming to give the
drink at the twentieth call as cheerfully
and as tenderly as at the first call.
Suppose all this assemblaye, and all
to whom these words shall come by
printers type, should resolve to make
kindness an overarching, updergirdine
and all pervading principle of their life,
and then carry out the esoluton-why,
IN six months the whole earth would
| feel it. People would say:
"What is the matter? 1t seems tC
me that the world is getting TO be a bet.
ter place to live in. Why, life after all
Is worth living Whv. there is Shylock.
my neighbor. has withdrawn his lawsuit
OF foreclosure again st that man. aud be-
! cause 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 lawver's Office and
do you know what he has gone in there
for? Why, he is helping liX up case
which is too big Tor the young man to
handle, and the white haired attorney
is hunting up previous decisions and
making out a brief for the boy. Down
at the bank l heard yesterday note
was due, and the young merchant could
not meet it, and an old merchant went
in and got for him three months extern
sion, which for the young merchant is
| the difference between bankruptcy and
| success in business. And IN our street
is an artist who had fine picture of the
Rapids of Niagara and he could not
sell it, and his family were suffering.
and they themselves were in the rapids;
and a lady heard of it and said, Il do not
need the picture. but for the encourage
ment of art and helping you out of your
distress will take it, and on the draw
ing room wall are the Rapids of Mag
ara
TIE AGE OF HELPFULNESS.
"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 fat.
mers are assisting each other IN gather
ing the harvest and for that farmer who
is sick the nei2hbors have made bee,
as they call it, and they have all turned
in to help him get his crops into the
garner? And they tell me that the
older and more skillful reporters who
have permanent positions OH papers are
helping the young fellows VINO are Just
beginning 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 readable ac-
count of that tragedy, nand 1t In and |
am sure the managing editor will take
Iit.'
"And heard this morning OF Il poor
old man whose three children were IN
hot debate as TO who should take care
| of HIM IN his declining days. The old
est 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 1t was her right
because she better understood fathers
vertigo and rheumatism and poor spells
and knew better how TO nurse him, and
the only way the difficulty could be set
tied 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, aud when onD
| is u little short off certain kind ot.goods
his neighbor saws, L will help you un-
til you can repIenish your shclves,' 1t
seems to me that those words of Isaiah
are being fulfilled when he says, The
carpenter ENCOURAGED the goldsmith and
| he that smcAths with the ha inner, 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. Kindness has gotten the
victory"
My hearers, you know and L know
we are far from that state of things.
| But why not lnaugurate new dspensa-
| ton Of geniality. If we cannot yet have
a millennium or large scale, let us
| have it on q small scale, and uudcr our
own vestments. Kindness! 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 fret the
world down. You cannot scold it Tito
excellence or reformation or godliness.
FABLE OF TIE WINDS.
The east wind and the west wind were
one day talking with each other, and the
east wind said 10 the west wind: Don't
you wish you had my power? Why,
when start they hal! me bv storm
signals all along the coast. | can twist
off a ships mast as easily as cows
hoof cracks an alder. With one sweep
of my wing have stre%n the coast from
Newfoundland to Key West with parted
ship timber. can lift and have lifted
the Atlantic ocean. / am the terror of
all invalidism, and to fight me back for
ests must be cut dow for fires, and the
mines of continents are called on to feed
the furnaces. Under my breath the ma
tions crouch into sepulchres. Don't you
wish you had my power?" said the east
wind.
The west wind made no answer, but
started on its mission coming somewhere
out of the rosy bowers of the sky, and
all the rivers and lakes and seas smiled
at its coming. The gnrdens bloomed.
and the orchards ripnneG. and the wheat
fields turned their silver into gold, and
health clappedits hands, and joy shouted
from the hill tops, and the nations lifted
their foreheads into the light, and the
earth had doxology for the sky, and
the sky an anthem for the earth, and
the warth and the sparkle, and the toll
age, and the flowers, and tho fruits, and
the beauty, and the llle, were the only
answer the west wind made to the in i.
science of the east winds interrogation
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 ought to
melt and transform all nations. Kind
ness brought our Lord from heaven.