The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-10-16

the ivory bars Of teeth on the lower Jaw
and the ivory bars of teeth on TIT upper
Jaw locked, and the gate of your Inns
tightly closed, aud your tongue shut
up.
What a place brooklyn would be TO
live in and all the other cities and
neighborhoods to live in if charity dom.
mated! What if all the young and old
cossipcrs were dead. The Lord hasten
their funerals! What If tattle-tale and
whispering were out of fashion, What
If in ciphering out the value of other
peoples character, in our moral
arithmetic. we stuck TO addition
instead of subtraction? Kindnessl
Let MS morning, noon and night
pray for it until we get it. When
you can speak n good word for some
one, speak it. If you can conscien-
tiously give letter of recommends.
ton, give it. Watch for opportunities
for doing good fifty years after you are
dead. All my life has been affected by
the letter OF introduction that Rev. DR..
Van Vranken, of New Brunswick
Theological seminary, wrote for me, a
boy under him. when l was seeking
settlement in which to preach the Cos
pei. That letter gave me my first pull
pit DR.. Van Vrankcn has been dead more
than thirty years, yet feel the touch
of that magnificent old professor
Strange sensation was it when | re-
ceived kind message from Rev Thos
Guard of Baltimore, the great Meth
odist orator, six weeks after his death.
by way of the eternal world? Oh. no:
by way of this world. ] did not meet
the friend to whom he gave the mes
sage until nearly two months after
Thomas Guard had assembled. So, Won
can start word about some one that
will be on travels and vigorous long
after the funeral psalm has been sung
Mt your obsequies Kindness! WHY, il
fifty men all aglow with it should walk
through the lost world, methinks thew
would almost abolish perdition.
Furthermore, there is a kindness OF
,ction. That is what Joseph showed
% his outrageous brothers. That is
What David showed to Mcphibosheth
or his father Jonathan's sake That
s what OncsiphoruS showed to Paul in
he Roman pcnitentiary. That is what
William Cowper recognized when he
aid he would not trust u man who
would with his foot needlcssly crush
worm. That is what our assassin
ted President Lincoln demonstrated
vhen his private secretary found
i'm in the capitol grounds trying to get
bird back to the nest from which it
ad fallen, and which quality the illus
rious man exhibited years before when
aving with Some lawyers in the ear.
lage on the way to court passed on the
Dad n swine fast in the mirc after
while cried TO his horses "IIo!" and
aid to the gentlemen: IL must go back
nd help that hog out of the mire"
nd he did go back, and put on solid
round that most uninteresting quadru.
ed. That was the spirit that was
anifested by my departed friend, Hon.
lexander ii. Stephens of Georgia,
md lovelier man never exchanged
nth for Iieaven) when at Washing.
IN. A senator's wife, who told my
life the circumstances, said to him:
Mr.. Stephens, come and see my dead
mary bird" And he answered:
No, / could not look at
lie poor thing without crying" That
the spirit that Grant showed when at
&c surrender at Appomattox he said to
IN. Lee: "As many of your soldiers
e farmers, and will need the horses
I'd mules to raise the crops to keep
cir families from suffering next win
r, let each confederate who car claim
horse or "A mule take it along with
M"