Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-17

can think o. and if there be nothing good,
then tighten the chain of muscle on the
back end of your tongue. and keep the
ivory bars of teeth on the lower Jaw and the
ivory oars of teeth on the upper jaw locked,
and the gate of your lips tightly closed. and
your tongue shut up. What place Brook
Ign would be TO live in. and all the other
cities and neighborhoods to live in. if
charity dominated! What if all the young
and old gosSiperS were dead. The Lord
hasten their funeralsl What if tittle-tattle
and whispering were out of fashion. What
if in ciphering out the value OF other peo-
pies character, in our moral arithmetic we
stuck TO addition instead of subtraction.
Kindness. Let us morning, noon and
night pray for it until we get it. When
you can speak good word for some one,
speak il. If YOU can conScientiouSly give a
letter of commentator, give it. Watch
for opportunities for doing good fifty. years
after you are dead.
ALL MY LIFE HAS BEEN AFFECTED
by the letter of introduction that the Rev.
DIR. Van Nranken of New Brunswick theo-
logical seminary wrote for me. 4 boy under
him. when | was seeking a settlement in
which to preach the gospel That letter
gave me my first pulpit. DR.. Van Nranken
has been dead more than thirty years. vet
feel the touch of that magnificent old pro-
fesSOr Strange sensation was il when l
received i kind message from Rev. Thomas
Guard of Baltimore, the great Methodist
orator, six weeks after his death. By way
of the eternal wOrld2 Oh, no, by way of
this world. l did not meet the friend to
whom he gave the message until nearly
two months after Thomas Guard had as
cended. So you can start a word about
some one that will be on its travels and
vigorous long after the funeral psalm has
been sung at your obSequies. Kindness,
Why, if fifty men all aglow with ii should
walk through the lost world, methinks they
would almost abolish pcrdition.
Furthermore, there is kindness of action.
That is what Joseph showed to his outrage
Gus brothers. That is what David showed
to Mephibosheth for his father Jonathan's
sake. That is what OnesiphOruS showed
to Paul in the Roman penitentiary.
That is what William Cowper recognized
when he said he would not trust 4 man who
would with his foot
NERDLEsSLY CRUSH WORM.
That is what our aSSassinated President
Lincoln demonstrated when his private sec
Rotary found him in the capitol grounds try
ing to get a bird back TO the nest from
which it had fallen. and which quality the
illustrious man exhibited years before when
having with some lawyers in the carriage
on the way TO court passed on the road Il
swine fast in the mire, after awhile cried to
his horses "Ho.' and said to the gentlemen,
Il must 20 back and help that hog out of
the mire.0 And he did so back, and put Oh
solid ground that most embarrassing quad
ruped. That was the spirit that was mani
Tested by my departed friend, Hon. Alex
ander II. Stephens of Georgia, (and lovelier
man never exchanged earth for heaven,
when ut Washington. 4 senator's wife who
told my wife Of the circumstances, said 10
him; Mr.. 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 Appomat-
toX he cried TO Gen. Lee, AS many OF your
soldiers are farmers and will need the
horses and mules TO raise the crops 10 keep
their families from suffering next winter,
let each Confederate who can claim 4 horse
or 4 mule take ii along with him. That is
the spirit which last night
TEN THOUSAND MOTHERS
showed to their sick children coming to
give the drink at the tventieth call as
cheerfully and as tenderly as at the first
call. Suppose all this asScmblage and all
to whom these words shall come by printers
type should resolve TO make kindness an
Ovcrlrching, uIdergirding and all-pervading
principle of their life and then carry out
the resolution. why in six months the
whole earth would feel ii. People would
say: what is the matter2 1t seems to
me that the world is getting to be 4 better
place TO live il. Why life after all is
worth living. Why. there is Shylock nv
neighbor, has withdrawn his lawsuit of
foreclosure against that man, and because
he has had 50 much sickness in the 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 for. Why, he is
helping fix up d case which is too big for
The young man to handle, and the white
NIT 10 i,tr 4
cisions and making ont a brief for the boy.
Down at the bank | heard yesterday a note
was du 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 be-
tween
BANKRUPTCY AND SUCCESS IN BUSINESS.
And in our street is an artist who had
fine picture of the rapids of Niagara, and ne
could not sell it,7and his family We're suf-
fering. and they were themselves in the !
rapidS, and lady heard of il ana said. / do
not need the picture. but for the encourage
ment of art and helping you out OF your dis |
treSS, | will take it'-and o. the drawing |
room wall are the rapids of Niagara Do |
you know that a strange thing has taken |
place in the pulpit, and all the old ministers |
are helping the young ministers, ard all the |
Did doctors are helping the Young doctors, |
and the farmers are assisting each other in |
gathering the harvest. and for that farmer |
who is sick the neighbors have made q |
bee as they call it. and they have ali |
turned in TO help him get his crops into the !
garner. And they tell me that the older |
and more sklllful reporters who have per- |
nanent positions on papers are helping the |
Young fellows who are just beginning TO try |
md don't know exactly how to do it. And |
liter few eraSureS and interpretations on |
he reporters pad they say Now here is
readable account Of that tragedy: hand it |
axe it And heard this morning 4 poor
Did man whose three children We're in not |
icbate as TO who should take care of him
IN HIS DECLINING DAYS.
The Oldest son declared il was his right be-
,auSe he was the Oldest and the youngest |
'on said il was his right because he was the |
;oungest. and Mary said it WAS her right
because she better understood fathers YER
igO, and rheumatism. and poor spells. and
Knew better how to nurse him. and the
,nly way the difficulty could be settled was
~ the old man. promise that be would di-
tide the year into three parts, and spend
bird of his time with each one of them
And neighbOr!ng stores III the same line of !
FOODS on the same block are acting kindly
o each other. II seems to me that those
words of Isaiah are being fulfilled when he
avs: THE carpenter encouraged the |
goldsmith, and he that smoothes with the
hammer, him that smote the anvil. saying.
is ready for the soldering What is the |
natter? 1t seems to me our old world is |
'icking up. Why. the millennium must be
oming in. kindness has got the vic
ory."
My hearers, YOU know and know we are
tar of Er,-1 by-, |