The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-09-14

nIace BROOKLYN would be to live in, and all
the other cities aud neighborhoods to
live in. If charity dominated! what
If all the young and old gosslpers were
dead. The Lord hasten their funer-
Ala What if tittle-tattle and whispering
| were out of fashion! What if in oiphering
ont the value of other peoples character, in
| onr moral arithmetic, we stuck to addition
instead Of subtraction Kindness Let US
morning, noon and night pray for 1t until
we get il. When you can speak agood WORD
| for some one, speak IT, IL you can con-
scientiousy give a letter of commentator,
! give it, Watch for opportunities for doing
! good fifty years after you are dead. All
! nv life has been affected by the letter of in
PRODUCTION that the Rev. DR.. Van Vranken
of New Brunswick theological Seminary.
wrote for me. boy under him, when was
seeking a settlement in which to preach the
gospel. That letter gave me my first
pupl. DR.. Van Vranken has been dead
more tnan thirty years. yet feel the touch
Of that magnificent old professor. Strange
sensation was 1t when | received kind
message from Rev. Thomas Guard of Baltl-
more, 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 vlgor-
Gus long after the funeral psalm has been
sung at your obsequies. Kindness! Why
if fifty men all aglOw with it should walk
through the lost world, methlnks they
would almost abolish perdition.
Furthermore there is kindness of action.
That is what Joseph showed to his outra-
geous brothers. That is what David showed
to Mephibosheth for his father Jonathans
sake That is what Onesiphorus showed to
Paul in the Roman penitentiary. That ID
what William Cowper recognized when he
said he would not trust a man who would
with his foot needlesslY crush worm. That
is what our assassnated 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, and which quality the illustri-
Gus man exhibited Years before when
having with some lawyers in the carriage
on the way to court passed on the road a
swine fast in the mire, after awhile cried
to his horses "HU.n and said to the gentle
men, II must go back and help that hog out
OF the mire." And he did go back, ana put
on solid ground the most uninteresting
Quadruped. That was the spirit that was
manifested by my departed friend Hon.
Alexander II. Stephens of Georgia Caud
loveier man never exchanged earth for
heaven " hen at Washington. A senator's
WIG WHO JOil my Nlt6 Oh Lu6
said TO him: MIR. Stephens. come and see
my dead canary bird" And he answered,
No, | could not look at the poor thing
without crying" That is the spirit that
Grant showed when at the surrender at Ap~
pomattox he said to Gen. Lee, LAS
many of your soldiers are farmers
aud will need the horses and
mules to raise the crops to keep their
families from suffering next winter, let each
nnnfaHnFofn uvh nj ~ n
mule take it along with him." That is the
spirit which last night ten thousand
mothers showed to their sick children COM
ing to give the drink at the twentieth call
as cheerfully and as tenderly as at the first
call. Suppose all this assemblage, and all
TO whom these words shall come by
printers type, should resolve to make kind
ness an overarching, undergirding and ALI
perva1ing 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 matters
1t seems to me that the world is getting to
be better place to live in. Why, life
after all is worth living. Why, there is
Shylock, my neighbor, has withdrawn
his lawsuit of foreclosure 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 there
fora Why, he is helping fix up case
which is too big for the young man to
handle, and the white-haired attorney is
hunting up previous decisions, and making
out brief for the boy. Down at the bank
heard yesterday a note was due and the
young merchant could not meet it and an
old merchant went in and got for him three
months extension, which for the young
merchant is the difference between bank
ruptcy and success in business. And in
our street is an artist who had fine
picture of the rapids or Niagara, and ne
could not sell it, apd his family were suf
fering, and they were themselves in the
rapids, and a lady heard of it and said,
Il do not need the picture, but for the en-
enlargement OF art and helping you out of
your distress, | will take it'-and on the
drawingroom wall are the Rapids of Ma
CARA. Do you know that a strange thing
has taken place in the pulpit and all the
old ministers are helping the young min
| listers, and all the old doctors are helping
| the young doctors, and the farmers are as
| sisting each other in gathering the harvest,
and for that farmer who is sick the neigh
bors have made 'bee,' as they call it, and
they have all turned in 10 help him get his
| crops into the garner. And they tell
me that the olderl Eand more skillful
reporters who have permanent posi-
| tions ON papers are helping the young
fellows who are just beginning to try and
| don't know exactly how to do it. And
! after few erasures and interpretations on
the reporters pad they say: Now here is a
readable account of that tragedy; hand il
in and l am sure the managing editor will
take it, And l 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 declining days. The oldest son
declared it was his right because he was the
oldest, and the youngest son said it was his
| right because he was the youngest, and
Mary said it was her right because she bet
ter 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 he would divide the
| year into three parts and spend third of
his time with each one of them Aud
neighboring stores in the same line of goods
on the sa ne block are acting kindly to each
other. 1t seems to me that those words OF
Isaiah are being fulfilled when he says,
The carpenter encouraged the goldsmith,
and he that smoother with the hammer
him that smote the anvil, saving, it is ready
for the soldering What is the matters II
seems to me our world is picking up. Why,
the millennium must be coming in. Kind
ness has gotten tho victory"
My hearers, you know and know we are
far from that state Of things. But why not
inaugurate a new dispensation of genialityi
If we cannot Yet have q millennium on a
large scale let Us have it on a small scale
and under our own vestmentS Kindness
If this world is ever brought to God that is
the thing that will do 1T. You cannot fret