Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1891-09-19

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 sics the neighbors have
made bee as they call it and they have
all turned in to help him get his crops
into tbs. garner. Aud they tell me
that the older and mora skilifui reporters
who have permanent positions on papers are
selping the young fellows who are just be-
| ginning to try and don't know exactly how
to do it. An after a few erasures and inter.
polations on the reporters pad they say.
Now here is a readable account Of that
tragedy; hand it in and am sure the man
aging editor will take it,
"And heard this morning of poor old
man whose three children were in hot debate
as to who should take care of him in his de-
clining days The oldest son declared it was
his right because he was the oldest, and the
youngest son said it was his rigat because ne
was the youngest, ami Mary said it 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 settled was by the
old mans promise that hs would divide the
I year into three parts, ami spend a thirl OF
his time with each one of them.
"And neighboring stores in the same Inns
! of goods on the same block are acting kindly
I to each other, and when one is a little short
Of certain kind of goods his neigh5or says
L will help you until you can replenish your
shelves 1t seems to me that those words OF
Isaiah are being fulfilled when he SAYS
The carpenter encouraged the goldsmith
and he that smooths VITA the hammer, him
that smote the anvil, saying it is ready for
the soldering WHAT is the matter2 1t
seems to ns our old worll is picking ~.
Why, the millennium must be coming in
Kindness has gotten the victory"
My hearers. you know AMI | know we are
far from that state of things. But why not
inaugurate new dispansation OF genialit7.
Ii we cannot yet have millennium on a
/ large scale, let us have it on small scale.
and under our own investments Kindness
IL 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 into ex-
celleuce or reformation or golliness.
The east wind and the west wind were
one day talking with each other, and the
east wind said to the west wind: Don't you
wish you had my power? Why, when
start they hail me by storm signals all along
the coast. / can twist off ships mast as
easily as a cows hoof cracks an alder
VITA one sweep of my wing have strewn
the coast from NewfoIndlani to Key
| West with parted ship timber. | can
lift and have lifted the Atlantic Ocean
am the terror of all invalidism, AMI to fight
me back forests must be cut down for fires,
and the mines of continents are called on TO
feed the furnaces. Under my breath ths
nations crouch into sepulchres. Don't you
wish you had my power" said tho east
wind.
The west wind made no answer. but
started on its mission, coming somewhere
out of the rosy DO sers of the sky, and all
the rivers and lakes AMI seas smiled at its
coming. The gardens b.oomsi and the
orchards riDanRd an | thn VIII a3f fields
turned thsir silver into gold, and health
capped its hands, and joy shouted from
the Mill tops, AMI the nations lifted their
foreheads into the light, and the earth had a
doxology for the sky, and the sky an an
them for the earth, and the warmth and the
sparkle AMI the gla luess, an | the foliage,
and the flowers and the fruits, and the
beauty, and the life, were the only answer
tee west wind made to the insolence of the
east winds Interrogation.
Kindness to ALL Surely it ought not to
be difficult gracs to culture when we see
towering above the centuries such an ex-
ample that one glimpse ought to melt and
transform all nations. Kindness brought
our Lord from heaven. Kindness to mis-
creants, kindness to prosecutors kindness
to ths crippled and the blind, and the cat
aleptic and the leprous, and the dropscal.
and the demoniacal characterizs1 Him all
the way, and on the cross, kindness to the
bandits suffering on the side OF Him, and
kindness to the executioners while yet they
pushsd the spear, and hammered the soi5es
and howled the blasphsmies
All the stories OF the John Towards and
the Florence Nightingales AMI the Grace
Darlings and the Ida Lewises pale before this
transcendant example of Him whose birth
and life ana death are the greatest story that
the world ever hsar1, and the thsme of thu
mightiest hosanna that heaven ever lifted.
Yea, the very kindness that allowed both
hands to be naile1 to the horizontal timber
of the cross with that cruel thunp! thump!
now stretches down from the skies those
same hands filled with balm for all our
wounds, forgiveness for al out crimes, res.
cue for all our serfdoms.
And while we take this matchless kindness
from God, may it be foun1 that we have ut
tered our last bitter word, written our last
cutting paragraph, done our last retaliatory
action, felt our last ravengeful heart throb.
And it would not be bal epitaph for any
of us if by the grace Of Sol from this time
forth welived such benefcent lives that the
tombstone's chisel could appropriately cut
upon the plain slab that marks our grave a
suggestion from the text: 'He showed us no
little Kindness"
But not until the last child OF God has got
ashore from the earthly storm that drove
him or -herocks like Mediterranean Euro
clydous, not until all ths thrones of heaven
ars mounted AMI all the conquerors
crowned, and all the harps AMI trumpets and
organs OF heaven are tdru ne or blown or
sounded AMI the ransonsl of all clines
aud ages are i'll full chorus ul1er ths
jub!iant swing of angelic baton, and We
shall for thousands OF years have seen
the river from un1er the throne rolling into
the ''sea of glass mingled with fire, and this
world we now inhabt shall be- 50 far in the
past that only stretch of celestial memory
can recall tiat it ever existed at all, not I'M
til then will we understand what Nehemiah
calls "the great kindness" what David calls
'the marvellous kin ness, and Isaiah calls
''the everlasting kindness of Coll