The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1896-08-31

more -,-ofrsudftv. What We want in our
sermons and Christiant celebrations Is
more sympathy. When Father Taylor
preached in the sailors Bethel al Boston.
the Jack tars felt they had help for their
duties among the ratlines and the fore
castles When Richard Weaver preached
10 the opera ives in Oldham. England. all
the W0rkinemen felt they had more grace
for the spiudles When DR.. South preach
cd 70 kings and princes and princesses, all
the mighty men and woman who heard
him felt PREPARATION for their high station
DO YOU not know that his simple story
Of a Savi0ur's kindness Is 10 redeem all
nations2 The hard heart OF this world S
obIuracy is 20 be broken before that
story. There is in Antwerp. Belgium.
one Of the most remarkable pictures
ever saw. II is The Descent Of Christ
from the Cross" II is one Of Ruben =
pictures. No man can stand and look
at that Descent from the Cross" as Ru-
hens pictured 10. without having his eyes
flooded with tears, II he have any sensi-
bilty az all. II Is an overmastering pic
ture-One that stuns you and staggers you
and haunts your dreams. One afternoon
a man stood in that cathedral looking at
Rubeus Descent from the Cross" He
was all absorbed in that scene OF Sa-
viour's sunerinEs when the janitOr came
in and said: 1T is time to close up the
cathedral for the night. l wish you would
depart" The pilgrim looking at that De
scent from the Cross" turned around TO
the janitOr and said: NO. no. not yet.
Wait until they get him down" o. it is
the story Of a Saviour's suffering kindness
that is 10 capture the world. When the
bones of that great behemoth Of iniquity
which has trampled all nations shall be
broken and shattered, IL will be found out
that the work was not done by the ham
mer of the iconoClast or by the sword Of
or nv he ~ l.
ton. but by the plain, simple, overwhelm-
ing force of the soft tongue that breaketh
the bone"
Kindnessi We all need more Of it in
our hearts. our words and our behavior.
The chief characteristic Of our Lord was
kindness. A gentleman in England died.
leaving his fortune by will to two sons.
The son that stayed at home destroyed
the fathers will and pretended that the
brother who was absent was dead and
buried The absent brother, after awhile,
returned and claimed his part of the
property. Judges and jurors were to be
bribed to say that the returned brother
and son was no son at all, but only an
impostor. The trial came on. Sir Mat
thew Hale. the pride of the English court
room and for twenty years the pride of
jurisprudence. heard that that injustice
was about 20 be practiced. He put off his
official robe. He put on the garb of a
miller. He went to the village where that
trial was to take place. He entered the
court room. He somehow got empanelled
as one Of the jurors. The brides came
around. and the man gave ten pieces of
gold to the other jurors, but as this was
only a poor miller the briber gave to him
only five pieces of gold A verdict was
brought in rejecting the right of this re-
turned brother. He was to have no share
in the inheritance. Hold! my lord" said
the miller. Hold we are not all agreed
on this verdict. These other men have
received ten pieces of gold in bribery and
I have received only five" who arc
you? Where do you come FROM" said
the Judge on the bench. The response
was: Il am from Westminster Hall; my
name is Matthew Hale. lord chief justice
of the kings bench. OF of that place
thou villain!" And so the injustice was
baked, and so the young man got his
inheritance.
1t was all for another that Sir Matthew
Hale took off his robe and put on the gart
of a miller. And so Christ took of his
robe of royalty and put on the attire Of
| our humanity and in that disguise hi
won our eternal portion. Now are We
| the sons of God. Joint heirs! We wen
| off from home sure enough. but we go
| back in time to receive our eternal inner
itance And If Christ was so kind to us
| surely we can afford to be kind to eacf
| other.