The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-09-09
Kind words never die, n"vcHdie,
Cherished and blessed.
Futility of FretfulaosR


Oh, that we might in our families and
in our churches try the force Of kind
ness! You can never drive men. women
or children into the kingdom of God
A March northcaster will bring out
more honeysuckles than fretfulness and
scolding will ever bring ont Christian
grace. wish that in all our religious
work we might be saturated with the
spirit CT kindness. Missing that, we
miss a great deal Of usefulness. There
is no need of coming out before men and
laundering to them the law unless at
the same time you preach to them the
gospel. The world is dying for lack of
kindness.
These younS people want it just as
much as the old. The old people some
times seem to think they have monop-
oly of the rheumatisms, and the neural
gias, and the headaches, and the phys
ical disorders of the world, but L tell
you there are no worse heartaches than
are felt by some of these young people.
Do you know that much of the work is
done BY the young? Raphael died at 81,
. Richelieu at 81, Gustavus Adolphus
died at 3S, Innocent III came to his
mightiest influence at 81. Cortes con.
qucred Mexico at so, Don John won
Lspanto at 20, Grotius was attorney
general at "a, and l have noticed amid
all classes Of men that some Of the &C.
verest battles and the toughest work
come before 80. Therefore we mast
have our sermons and our exhortations
in prayer meeting all sympathetic with
the young. And so with these people
farther on il life. What Go these doc
tors and lawyers and merchants and
mechanics care about the distractions of
religion? What they waut is help to
bear the whimsjralities Of patients, the
browbeating of legal opponents, the un-
fairness cf customers, who have plenty
CT fault finding fer every imperfection CT
handiwork. but no praise for 20 excel
leuces. What does that brain racked.
hand blistered man care for ,zwingli's
Doctrine Of Original SIM or Angus
tines "Antbropology?" You might as
we'll go to a man who has the pleurjsy
and put CT his side plaster made ont
of DR.. PAIRS "Treatise on Medical Ju-
risprudence.
In all our sermons there must be help
for every one somewhere. Ecu 60 into
an apothecary store. Wcs others being
waited on. We do not complain because
we do not Immediately get the medi-
cine. We know our turn will como after
awhile. And 60 while all parts Of y
sermon may not be appropriate to our
case, if we wait prayerfully, before the
sermon is through we shall have The
divine prescription. say to these young
men who arc going topreach the gospel,
these theological! students-I say to
them: We want in our sermons not moro
metaphysics, nor more imagination, nor
more logic, nor more profundity. What
we want in cur sermons aud Christian
exhortaticns is more sympathy. When
Father Taylor preached in the Sailors
Bethel at Boston, the jack tars felt they
had help for their duties among the rat
lines and the forecastles. When Richard
Weaver preached to the operatives in
Oldham, England, all the wcrkingmcn
felt they had moro grace for the spin
dies. When DIR. South preached to kings
and princes and princesses, all the
mighty men and women who heard him
felt preparation for their high station.
DO you not know that this simple
story Of a Saviour's kindness is to re-
deem all nations? The hard heart Of
this worlds obduracy is to be broken
before that story. There is in Antwerp,
Belgium, one of the most remarkable
pictures ever saw. It is THE Descent
of Christ From the Gross. - 1t is one of
Rubens' pictures. No man can stand
aud hook at. that Descent From the
Cross as Rubcps pictured il without
having his eyes flooded with tears, it he
have any sensibility at all. 1t is al
oyermastering picture-one that stuns
you and staggers you ard baunts your
dreams. One afternoon man stood IN
that cathedral looking at Ruben's de
scent From the Cross" He was all alb.
sorbed III that scene Of Saviour's suf-
erings when the janitor came in and
said: 1T is time to close up the cathe-
dral for the night. wish you would
! depart -" The pilgrim looking at that
Descent From the Cross turned
around to the janitor and said: mo.
no, not yet. Wait until they get him
down" On, it is the story of a Saviour $
suffering kindness that is to capture the
world. When the bones Of that great
behemoth of iniquity which has tram
pied all nations shall be broken and
shattered, it will be found out that the
work was not done by the hammer of
the iconoclast, or by the sword of the
conqueror, or by tho torch Of persecu-
tion, hut by the plain, simple, over
whelming force of 1.-The soft tongue that
breaketh the bone"
We All Need More Kindness,
Kindness! 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 de-
stroyed 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 re-
turned brother and sou was no son at
all, but only all impostor. The trial
came Oh. Sir Matthew Hale, the pride
of the English courtroom and for 20
years the pride CT jurisprudence, heard
that that injustice was about to be prac'
ticed. He put off his official robe. He
put on the garb of miller. lie went to
the village where that trial was to take
place. He entered the courtroom. He
somehow got inlpaneled as one of the
jurors. The bribes came around, and the
man gave ten pieces of gold 10 the other