Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1891-09-18
all as cbeOrrully anil as ten ierIy a, at til,

call as cheorfuIly AMI as ten ierIy as at thu
first call.
Supposs all this asssmblage, all TO whom
thess words shall come by printers type,
should resolve to make kindness an over
arching, uudergiriiny and all psrvading
principle Of their life, aud then carry out the
resoutioa-why, in six months the whole
earth would fell it. People would say:
What is the matter? 1t to me that
the world Is gettin, to be a better place
to live in Way, life after all is worth liv-
ing. Why, there is Shylocs. my neigh5or,
has withdrawn his lawsuit Of foreclosure
against that man, and because he has had
50 much sickness in his family he is go
ing to have the house for one year
rent free. There is an old lawyer in that
young lawyers Office, an do you know what
he has gone in there for? Why, he is help
ing fix up a case which is too big for the
young man TO handle, and the white haired
attorney Is hunting up previous decisions
AMI making out a brsf for the boy. Down
at the bank | heard yesterday d note was
due, and the young merchant coult
not meet it, AMI the old merchant
went in aud got for him three months ex-
tension, which for the young merchant is
tile difference between bankruptcy and
success id business. And in our street Is
an artist who had a fine picture OF the
'Rlpids of Niagara, and he could not sell It,
aud bis family were suffering, and they
themselves were in the rapids; and lady
heard of it and sal !, L do not nee1 the
picture. but for tn, encouragement o. art
and helping you out Of youf distress will
take it, and on the drawing room wall are
the Rapids of Niagara
do you know that strange thing has
taken place in the pulpit AMI all the oil
and all the old doctors are helping the
young doctors, an the farmers are assisting
each other in gathering the harvest all for
that farmer wio is sici the neigab0rs have
made bee as they call it, AMI they have
all turned in to help him get MS crops
into the garner. AMI they tell me
that the older and more skillful reporters
VINO have psrmanen, positions on papers are
helping the youhg fellows who are just be-
ginning 10 try and don't know exactly how
to do it, An after a few erasures aud inter
polations on the reporters pad they say!
Now here is a readable account OF that
tragedy; hand it in and am sure the mau-
aging editor will take it,
"And heard this morning of a 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 1t was
his right because he was the Oldest, and the
Youngest son said it was his right because ne
was the youngest, and 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 tho
old mans promise that hs would divide the
year into three parts, AMI spend a third OF
his time with each one Of them.
"And neighboring stores in the same line
Of goods on the same block are acting kindly
to each other, and when one Is little short
Of a certain kin1 Of goods his neighbor says,
4 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,
aud he that suiooths With the hammer, him
that snote the anvil, saying it is ready for
the soldering WHAT is the matterf IL
see rs t. ME our old worll is picking NJ.
Why, the millennium must be coming IN.
Kindness has gotten the victory
My hearers. you know and | know We are
far from that state Of things. Bat why not
inauyurate a new dispensation OF genialtY.
II we cannot yet have a miilenliu on
large scale, let US have it on small scale
AMI under our own investments. Kindness.
II this world is ever brcu ght to God that IS
the thing that will do it. You cannos Ire'
the world up although you may fret tAe
world down. You cannot scold it into ex-
cellencs or reformation or golliness.
The east wind and the west wind wero
one day talking with each other, and tho
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 alon5
the coast can twist off a ships mast as
easily as a cows hoof CRACKS an alder.
Vita one sweep of my wing have strewn
the coast from Newfountan1 to Key
West with parted ship timber. l can
lift and have lifted the Atlantic Ocean. l
am the terror of all invalidism, AMI TO fight
me back forests must BE- cut down for fires.
and the mines of continents arc c1let on to
feed the furnaces Under my breath th'
nations crouch into sepulchres. Don't You
wish you had my power: sail the east
wind.
The west wind made no answer. but
startsl on it, mission, coming sOmewhero
out of the rosy DO yers OF the sky, aud all
the rivers and lakes ami seas smlel at it,
coming. The gardens bloDmel. an thu
orchards ripened, an tho what fields
turned their silver into gold, AMI health
capped its hands, AMI joy shouted from
tn hill tops, an tl3 nations littet their
foreheads into thu light, and tao earth had a
doxOl0gy for the SKY. AMI the sky an an
them for the earth, and the warmth AMI thu
sparkle, AMI tn, gla lness, an the fo.ilIc,
an | the flowers and the fruits, an th9
beauty and the life, were the only answef
west winl made u the insOielce OF Tn,
east winds interrogation.
Kindness to ALL Surely it ought not to
be difficult grace to culture when we see
towering above the centuries such an eX.
ample that one glimpse ought to melt AMI
49,, g. Ill l. in tnD
our Lord from heaven Kindness 10 mis-
creants, Kindness to prosecutors, kindness
70 the crippled AMI the blind, and the cat
aleptic and the leprous, and the dropslcll,
and the demoniacll characterzsl Him all
the way, and on the cross, kindness 70 the
bandits suffering on the side o. Him, and
kindness to the executioners while yet they
pushed the spear, aud hammered the spikes,
and howled the blasphsmies
All the stories Of the John Howards and
tho Florence NightingaleS AMI the Graco
Darings and the Ida Lewises pale before this
transcsndant example Of Him whose birtl
and life an death are the grelteSt story that
the world ever hearl, and the theme OF tins
mightiest hosanna that heaven ever lifted.
Yen, the very kindness that allowed both
hands to be nailei 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 al our
wounds, forgiveness for all ou. crimes, res
cue for all our serfdoms.
And while we take this matcnless kin lnesi
from Col, may it be founi that we have ut
tered our last bitter word, written our last
cutting paragraph, done our last retaliatory
action, felt our last rsvengeful heart thro5.
And it would not be bal epitaph for any
of us if by the grace Of Col frDm this time
forth we lived such beueicsnt lives that ths
tombstones chisel could appropriately cut
upon the plain slab that marks ou' grave a
suggestion from the text; ale shovel us no
little kindness"
But not until the last child OF God has got
ashore from the earthly storm that drove
him or sherocks like Mediterranean Euro
cIydous. not until all the thrones of heaven
ara mounted and all the conquerors
crowned, and all the harps and trumpeCs and
organs OF heaven are thru mel or blown o.
sounded, and the ransomel OF all chimes
and ages are in full chorus under the
iubliant swing of angelic baton and we
shall for thousands Of years have seen
the river from under the throne rolling into
the ''sea of glass mingled with fire, - and this
world we now inhabit shalt be 50 far in the
past that only a stretch OF celestial memory
can recall that it ever existed at ALL not UNI
til then will we understand what Nehemiah
calls "the great kindness" what David calls
"the marvellous kin mess and Isaiah calls
'the everlasting kindness Of Godi
The Test Of Real Suffering.
IL, tlo hOontfon-INo