Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-09-14

at least Two WltIceSeS OF lliteStitgs AAiD
il guilt be proved, find out the eNtenuat
ing circumstances II there are any.
And then commit to memory so that
you can quote for yourself and quote
for others that exquisite thirteenth
chaptero Of First Corinthians about char
ity that suffers long and is kind and
hopeth all things and endureth al
things. BY pen. by voice. in public
and in private. say all the good about
people you can think of. and if there
be nothing good. then tighten tn,
chain of muscle on the back end o.
your tongue and keep the ivory bars o.
teeth on the lower jaw and the ivory
bars of teeth on the upper jaw locked
and the gate of your lips tightly CLOSED
and your tongue shut up.
What a place Brooklyn would be t
live in, and all the other cities and
neighborhoods to live in. If charity
dominated. What II ali the Young art
old gossipers were dead The LOrC
hasten their funerals, What if title
ts.ttle and whispering were out of fash
ionl What If in ciphering out the value
of other peoples charscte in our mora
arithmetic we stuck to addition instead
of subtraction Kindness Let us,
morning, noon and night, pray for il
until we get it, When you can speak q
good word for some one. speak it. Il
you can conscientiously give letter ol
commendation. give it. Watch for op
portunities for doing good fifty years
after you are dead.
All my life has been affected by the
letter of introduction tina; Jhe Rev DIR.
Van Vrankcl. of New Brunswick The
illogical seminary. wrote for me-. a boy
under him. when | was seeking a set
tlement in which to preach the Gospel.
The letter gave me my inst pulpit. DR..
| Van Vranken has been dead more than
thirty years. yet feel tie touch of that
magnificent old professor. Strange
sensation was it when | received kline
message from Rev. Thomas Guard, O.
Baltimore. the great Methodist orator
six weeks after his death. By way ot
the eternal worldi Oh. no. by way OF
this world
did not meet the friead TO whom
he gave the message until nearly two
months after Thomas Guard had as
cended. So you can start II word about
some one that will be ON its travels and
vigorous long after the funeral psalm
has been sung at ycur obsequies. Kind
ness! Why, if fifty men all aglow with
it should walk through the lost world,
methinks they would almost abolish
perdition.
INSPIRING EXAMPLES or KINDNESS.
Furthermore, there is kindness of ac
ton. 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 Ro-
man penitentiary. That is what VIII
liam Coyper recognized when he said
he would not trust man who would
with his foot needlessly crush worm.
This is what our assassinated Presi-
dent Lincoln demonstrated when his
private secretary found him in the
Capitol grounds trying TO get bird
back to the nest from which it had
fallen, and which quality the illustrious
man exhibited years before which hav-
ing some lawyers in the carriage on
the way to court passed on the road a
In axrhf 10
cried to his horses, "Ho!" and said to
the gentlemen. Il must go back ano
help that hog out of the mire." And
he did go back, and put on solid
ground that most uninteresting quad
ruped.
That was the spirit that was mani
tested by my departed friend, Honor
able Alexander IL. Stephens, of Georgia
land lovelier man never exchanged
earth for heaven), when at Washing,
ton. 4 senator's wife. who told my
wife of the circumstances, said to him,
''Mr. Stephens come and see my dead
canary bird. And he answered, mo,
| could not look al the poor thing
without crying"
That is the spirit that Grant showed
when at the surrender at AppomattoS
he said to General Lee, AS many OF
your soldiers are farmers and will need
the horses and mules To raise the crop:
TO keep their families from suffering
next winter, let each Confederate who
can claim q horse or mule take il
along with lin.
That is the spirit which last nigh
ten thousand mo,hers showed to thei
sick children coming 10 give the drinl
at the twentieth call as cheerfully anC
as tenderly as AT the t~t call. Sup
pose all this assetnblage, and all t,
whom these words shall come by print
er's type, should resolve 10 make kind
ness an overaphing, underC.rding an,
all pervadiug principle Of their life, am,
then carry out the resolution, why, il
six months the whole earth would fee
IT, People would say
what is the mGttcft Il seems TO IN
that the world is ge,giaHto be bette
place 10 live In, Why. life after all /
worth living Why, there is Shylock
nay neighhor, has withdrawn his law
suit of foreclosure against that man
and because he has had 80 much sick
ness In his family he is going TO hav
} the house for one year rent free. Their
} Is an I'D lawyer in that young lawyer
Office, and DO YOU know what he ha
gone la there fort Why, he Is helpin
dN mp a case which is too big for tn
! young nlan 70 handle. and the whit