The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1895-03-02
,nE UN1vERsALIsT: SATURDAY, MARCH 2, 1895.

or dropping an aitch, but let it not
distress them. Fashion is only syc-
ophantism which limps, and bends,
becomes hideous, or goes partly
nude, when certain leaders limp, bend
wear humps, or are coarse, and it is
like garment put on and off and
concerns only the mortal case; its
speech is an requirement of the jaw;
its knowledge the furniture of the
brain, its wealth the picture-frame;
but these are not needed in the other
world, while graciousness, becoming
the second nature of the immortal
spirit, is our angelic robe when body,
brain and jaw are food for worms,
and another man wears our gilded
| frame.
L. GRACIoUsNEss DESCRIBED.
Q) To be kind.-To show unkind-
ness in manner or words deforms a
man more than wart on his nose.
When hard unsympathetic men run
a church, stand-off -ish cliques are
bred and church growth is pinched.
In family it turns children into
wrong ways.
II have brought my son." said a
metal voiced man to the head teacher,
Il cannot do any good with him, and
hope you will lick him into shape"
"Sit here, my boy, little while until
i can see what you can do" After
ward, when the teacher in familiar
and kindly way is about to put his
hand on the boys shoulder. he sud-
denly shrinks in fear. "My boy, why
do you shrink fro me9" Il thought
you were going to strike me-" Ruined
for life, poor boy!
81 wish you always lived in our
house." said little boy to the min
lister. Little three feet, then you
like me very muchs" "Well, you see,"
replied the boy in confidential tone,
"when you stay at our house father
and mother are real kind, but on
other days father is cross and mother
knocks us about and sends us to bed
out of the way; and sometimes / wish
could die in my sleep and wake up
in heaven with grandpa who always
loved u.s.
See this manly young fellow with
the gentle twenty-year maid. How
happy! AS she leans on his arm, he
leans to her. "CourtingW She
laughs, ooh, moi" "Just married,
thena" Both laugh. Engaged,
certainly" mo, no." he proudly
says. this is my dear sister, Yes,
yes; it is right; why should he not be
as kind to his own sister as to another
mans sister,
In trains, steamers, trans, on the
sidewalk, and in the churches might
we not be kind? just before "divine
SERVICE" a poorly dressed man, but
clean, and with rather a noble face,
entered half-fill church bearing
the name of our Lord, and walked
slowly up the aisle looking for seat;
but no one moved. Passing before the
pulpit, he slowly walked along the
other aisle with the same result.
Then marching back, to the surprise
of the people, he entered the pulpit,
and exclaimed, II am painfully con-,
WINGED that this is not Christ's
church,
2. Be tender hearted. This friend
less woman, caughtin the act of crime
by professionally pious men, now
stands in sorrowful shame. Her &C
cusers, who are not less wicked but
more circumspect than herself, have
gone out. She is penitent yet indig-
nant; her feelings are wounded by
the hard conduct of equally guilty
men; and, in mute appeal, her eyes
plead for the compassion of the one
who the once blind Bartimeus says is
the Son of God. With tender sorrow
in his eyes which thrills her soul, he
replies to her silent prayer, "Neither
do / condemn thee to be stoned; go,
be at peace so far as thy Heavenly
Father is concerned, and sin no
more"
Let me show a well-known scene
in the life of a man whose fortunes
have fallen. He is now law writer,
earning few shillings occasionally,
and often starving in his poor room
over rag and bottle shop in crowded
London. AS he walks along Chan
Gerry lane, he sees the ragged boy who
sweeps the crossing shivering in a
doorway, and passes him, but comes
back. "HaVo YOU anV friendsH