The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1891-09-18

upper law locked, AID the gate Of Your
/ lips tightly closed, and your tongue
! shut I'D. When you can speak a good
/ a GOOD word for some one. speak it II
/ you can conscientiously give a letter OF
/ recommendation, give It Watch for
OPPORTUNITIES for doing good fifty years
| alter YOU are dead All my life has
/ been affected by the letter of introduce
ton that Rev. DR.. Van Nranlzen, Of
! New brunswick theological seminary
/ wrote for me, q boy under him, when
! was seeking a settlement In which to
/ preach the gospel That letter gave
me my first pulpit DR.. Van Nranken
[ has been dead more than thirty years
! vet I feel the touch OF that magnificent
| old professor.
! Strange sensation was it when re-
| cefved 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 this world / did not
/ meet the friend to whom he gave the
| message until nearly two months after
] Thomas Guard had assembled So you
| can start a word about some one that
! will be on its travels and vigorous long
after the funeral psalm has been sung
! at your obsequies- Kindness! Why If
/ fifty men all aglow with 1t should walk
| through the lost world, methinl1s 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 to MephibOsheth
/ for his father Jonathan's sake That
| is what Onesiphorus showed to Paul in
| the Roman penitentiary. That is what
| William CowPer recognized when he
| said he would not trust a man who
| would with his foot needlessiy crush a
/ worm. That IS what our assassin ateC
! President Lincoln demonstrated when
| his private secretary found him in
| the capitol grounds trying to
/ get a bird back to the nest from
| which it had fallen, aud which
| quality the illustriOus man exhibited
| years before when having with sOmG
| lawyers in the carriage on the way to
| court passed on the road 4 swine fast
/ in the mire, after awhile cried to his
/ horses ''HOr' and said to the gentle men:
| Il must 60 back and help that hog out
/ of the mire." And he did go back and
put on solid ground that most uninter-
esting quudruPed That was the spirit
| that was manifested by my departed
/ friend, Hon. Alexander H. Stephens. OF
| Georgia land lOvelier man never eE-
| changed earth for Heaven), when at
! Washington. A senator's wife who
/ told my wife of the circumstances said
/ to him: ''Mr. Stephens, come and see
my dead canary bird" And he an
| swered: ''No, I could not look at the
poor thing without crying" That is
| the spirit that Grant showed when at
the surrender at APPOmatOx he said to
| Gen. Lee: las nanny 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 it along with
him"
That is the spirit which last night
4 ten thousand mothers showed TO their
| sick children, coming to give the drink
| at the twentieth call as Cheerfully and
as tenderly as at the first call. Suppose /
f! all this assem- blage, and all to whom
| these words shall come by printers
! type, should resolve to make kindness !
| an overarching, undergirding and all
| pervading principle Of their life, and
| then carry out the resolution, why, in
| six months the whole earth would feel
it People would say; what is the
matter? 1t seems to me that the world
/ is getting to be a better place to live in
] Why, life after all is worth living.
! Why. there is Shyloclr, my neighbOr, |
/ has withdrawn his lawsuit of fore /
| closure against that man. and because |
| 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 lawyers Office, /
| and do you know what he has gone in /
/ LuGLS AoAs " NY he 10 AGABA4AG AA "
a case which is too big for the young
man to handle, and the white
! haired attorney is hunting up pre-
| viOus decisions and making out a
| brief for the boy. Down at the
| bank I heard yesterday a note was due !
and the young merchant could not meet !
| 1t, and an old merchant went in and
/ got for him three months extension, |
1 which for the young merchant is the
| difference between bankruptcy and
success in business And in our street
I 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 were themselves in the rapids,
1 and a lady heard of it and said: II do
not need the picture, but for the encour-
| agement of art and helping you out OF
| your distress 1 will take it, s" and on the
/ drawing room wall are the rapids Of
/ Niagara Do you know that a 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
| farmers are assisting each other in
! gathering the harvest and for that
! farmer who is sick the neighb DIS have
made bee as they call it, and they
| have all turned in to help him get his
/ crops into the garner.
My hearers, You know and know I
/ we are far from that state of things
| But why not inaugurate new disPen-
| satiOn OF geniality.
| Kindness to all! Surely it ought not /
| to be a difficult grace to culture Vvher
we see towering above the centuries !
| such an example that one glimpse of It /
ought to melt and transform all ma
] lions. Kindness brought our Lord !
| from Heaven Kindness to miscreants, |
/ kindness to prosecutors, kindness to l
the crippled and the blind and the cats- |
| leptie and the leprous and the drOpsical, /
and the demOniacal characterized Him |
I all the way, and on the cross, kindness !
I to the bandits suffering on the side Of I
/ Him, and kindness to the ezecutionera
while yet they pushed the spear, and I
] hammered the spikes, and hOwIed the !
| blasphemies.
/ All the stories of the John Towards /
and the Florence Nightingales and the
I Grace DarliHgs and the Ida Levises I
| pale before this transeendent example