The Penn's Grove record., 1891-09-25

lIALQI, ~ Wb6A5 ksC uio uuabus - Way
); the eternal worldi Oh, no, by way OF
mis- world. I did not meet the friend to
whom he rave the message until nearly two
months after Thomas Guard had assembled.
30 you can start a word about some he that
will be on its travels and vigorous long after
The funeral psalm has bsen sung at your
~,bssquies. Kindnessl Why, IL fifty mon
III aglow with It should walk through the
ost world, methlnks they would almost
lbolish perdition.
Furthermore there is kindness Of action.
That is what Joseph showed 10 his out
Axeous brothers. That is what David
ihowed to M~ephiboshetb for his father
Jonathan's sake. That Is what Onesiphorus
to Paul in the Roman penitentiary.
That is what William Cowpsr recognized
when he said he would not trust q man who
would with his foot nee ilessly crush a worm.
That IL what our assassinated fresl-
lent Lincoln demonstrated when his
private secretary found him in tho
bapitol grounds trying to get q
siri back to the nest from which it had
allen, and which quality the ilustrious man
Exhibited years before whsn having with
pms lawyers In the carriage on the way TO
sourt passed on the road a swine Ass IN ens !,
uira. aftsr awhile cried to his horses, "HoF
md ala to the gentlemen, 81 must 60 back
ind heip that hog out Of the mire.n And he
lid 70 back and put on solid ground that
most undressing quadruped-
That was the spirit that was manifested
" my departed friend Honorable Alexan-
Ter d. Stephsns Of Georgia land iovelier
nan never exchanged earth for heaven,
when ct Washington. A senator's wife who
old my wife Of the circumstances said to
Inn, ''Mr. Stephen, come and see my dead
auary bird-n And he answered, "No, 1
ould not look ct the poor thing without
rying.n That 10 the spirit that Grant
howed when at the surrender at Apo
nattox he said to General Lee, "As
many Of your soldiers are farmers and will
iced the horses and mules to raise the crops
b keen their families from suffering next
winter, let each Confederate who can claim
, horse or mule take 1t along with him"
That isthe spirit which, last night, ten hou
and mothers showed to their sick children
Oming to give the drink at the twentieth
all IS cheerfully and as tenderly as at the
trst call.
Suppose all this assemblags, all to whom
hese words shall conn by printers type,
hould resolve to make kindness an over
.rching, undergirding and all pervading
Principle Of their life, and then carry out the
!~esolufion-wby, in six months the whole
arth would feel it. People would say:
"What Is the matteri 1t seems TO me that
me world is getting to be q better place
% live in. Why, life after all is worth iv-
ng. Why, there Is Shylock. my neighbor,
las Withdrawn his lawsuit Of foreclosure
against that man, n because he has \
o much sickness in his family he Is go
ent free. There Is an old lawyer In that
goung lawyers office, and do you know what
10 has gone in there forf Why, he is help
ne fix up a case which fs too big for tie
.oung man to handle, and the white haired
lttorney 10 hunting up previous decisions
snd making nj a brief for the boy. Down
1t the bank 1 heard yesterday a note wa
iue, and the young merchant could
vent in and got for him three months ex-
endon, which for the young merchant is
the difference between bankruptcy and
mccess In business. And in our street Is
an artist who had q fine picture Of the
Rapids of Niagara, and he could not sell II,
and his family wsre suffering, and they
themselves were I'm the rapids; and a lady
heard Of 1t and said, 4 do not need the
picture, but for tbs encouragement of art
and helping you out Of your distress ! will
take it. and on the drawing o wall ara
the Rapids Of Niagara
do you know that . strange thing has
taken place In the pulpit and al tbs old
ministers are helping tho young ministers
and all the old doctors are helping tn
young doctors, and the farmers are assisting
Zach other In gathering the harvest and fol
that farmer who 10 sick the naghbors hav'
all turnsd in to help him get his crop
Into the garner. And they tell m
that the older and more skiilful reporter
who have permanent positions 20 papers ar
helping the young fellows who are just be
ginning to try and don't. know exactly no
to do ii. An after . few erasures and inter
polations IN the reporters pad they say
Now here is q readable account OF tbs
tragedy; hand 1t in and l am sure the msu
aging editor will take it,
And l heard this morning of q poor oil
man whose three children were in hot debat
q, to who should take care Of him in his de
Ginning days. The oldest son declared it wa
his right because he was the Oldest and TIA
Youngest son said it was his right because h
was the youngest, and Mary said it was he
right because she better understood father
vertigo and rheumatism and poor spells an
knew better how to nurse him, and the onl
way the difficulty could be settled was BY %
old mans promise that he would divide tn
year into three parts, and spend a third O
his time with each one Of them.
Sand neighboring stores in the same lin
Of goods on the same block are acting kindi
to each other, and when one is a little shor
Of a certain kind of goods his neighbor says
Il will help you until you can repienish you
Shelves 1t seems to me that those words @
Isaiah are being fulfilled when he say,
THE carpenter u ged the goldsmith
and he that smooths with the hammer, hlf
that smote the anvil, saying it is ready TO
the soldering What is the natter |
seems to me our old world is picking up
Why, the millennium must be coming In
Kindness has gotten the victory
Ny hearers, you know and know we ar
far from that state of things. But why no
inaugurate a new ~dispensation OF geniahty
II we cannot yet a q millennium on
| large scale, let us have it on a small scale
| and under our own investments. Kindness
| II his world Is ever brought to God that j
| the thing that will do it. You cannot FIRE
| the world up although you may fret tn
| world down. You ann scold it into e1
| csllence or reformation or godliness.
The east wind and the west wine wer
one day talking with each other, and til
| east wind said to the west wind: Don't yo'
| wish you had my powerf Why, when
| start they hail me by storm signals all alon;
| the coast. 1 can twist Oh a ships mast a
| easily as a cows hoof cracks an aldei
| With one sweep Of my wing / have strewl
| the coast fron Newfoundland to Ke.
West with parted ship timber. cs
lift and nave lifted the Atlantic Ocean.
4 AM Tie ItIIOT VI all ihNhitbioAu1 al W hlh
me back forests must be cut down for lire
| and the mines Of continents are called on
feed the furnaces. Under my breath til
nations crouch into se~pulchres. Don't yo
wish you had my powerg' said the cas-
wind.
The west wind male no answer, br
started on its mission, coming sonewher
out Of the rosy DO yers OF the sky, and a
the rivers and lakes AMI seas smiled at II
coming. The gardens bloomei, and Il
orchards ripened, AMI the wheat mel;
turned their silver into gold, n heait
clapped its hands, aud joy shouted fro
the hill tops, and the nations lifted the
foreheads into the light, and the earth had
doxology for the SKY, and the sky an a.
them for the earth, n the warmth and u
sparkle, AMI the gladness, n the foiag
and the flowers and the fruits, and u
beauty, and the life, were the only answl
tle west wind made to the insolence OF I'll
east winds interrogation.
Kindness to ALL Surely it ought not
oe a mficult grace to culture wnen we S
towering above the centuries such an e
ample that one glimpse ought to melt Al
transform all nations. Ktniness broug
our Lord from heaven. Kindness 20 m
creantS kindness to persecutorS kindne
TO the crippled and the blind, and the ca
aieptic and the leprous, and the dropsics
and the demoniacal characterised Him
tbs way, and on the cross kindness to u
bandits suffering N the side OF Him, al
Kindness 10 the executioners while yet tbs
pushed the spear, and hammered the spikt
and howled the b~lasphemies.
All b stories OF the John Howard az