Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1896-09-18

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shall be a. snow; though they are red like
crimson, they shall b as wool. Ihat man
Is diving forever for the lack 81 one Kind
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our churches try the force 81 kindness. fon
can never drive men, women or children into
the kingdom Of God. A March northeasieF
will bring ont more honevSuckles than ret
fulness and scolding will bring out Christian
grace. wish that In all our religious WORK
we might be saturated with the spirit OF
kindness. Missing that. we miss great
deal Of usefulness. There is no need OF
coming out before men and laundering 10
them the law unless at the same time YOU
preach 10 them the Gospel. The world is
dying for lack Of kindness.
These young people want It just as mueh
as the old. The old people sometimes seem
TO think they have a monopoly Of the rhen-
matisms. and the neuralgas. and the head
aches. and the physical 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 young2 Raphael
died at thirty-seven, Richelieu at thirty-one;
Gustavus Adolphus died at thirty-eight; In
nocent III. came TO his mightest influence
at thirtv-seven; COrtez conquered Mexico ne
thirty: Don John won Lepanto at twenty
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tv-four: and | have noticed amid all classes
Of men that some OF the severest battles and
the toughest work come before thirty.
Therefore We must have our sermons and
our eThortations in prayer meeting all SYM
pathetic with the young. And so with these
people further on in life. What do these
doctors and lawyers and merchants and me.
chanies care about the distractions OF re-
ligion? What they want Is help to bear the
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Of legal opponents. the unfairness Of Gus
toners. who have plenty Of faultlnding for
every imperfection Of han liwork. but 60
praise for twenty excellences. What does
that brain-racked, hand-bistere1 man care
for Swingle's "Doctrine OF Original Sin" or
Augustine's "AnthropologyY" You might IA
we'll 90 to u man who has the pleurisy and
put on his side plaster made out Of DIR.
PARIS "Treatise on Medical Jurisprudence"
In all our sermons there must be help for
every one somewhere. You go into an apo
thecary store; you see others being waited
on; we do not complain because we do not
Immediately get the medicine; we know our
turn will come after q while. And so. while
all parts OF the sermon may not be apprO-
pirate to our case, il We went prayerfully,
before the sermon is through we shall have
the divine prescription. I say 70 these young
men who are going TO preach the Gospel,
these theological students-IsaY to them, We
want in our sermons not more metaphysics,
nor more Imagination, nor more logic, nor
more profundity. What We want in our ser
mons and Christian eIhortations is more
sympathy. When Father Taylor preached in
the Sailors Bethel at Boston, the jack tars
felt that they had help for their duties among
the ratlines aud the forecastles. When
Richard Weaver preached to the operatives
in Oldham, England, all the working men
felt that they had more grace for the spin
dies. When DR.. South preached to Kings
and Princes and Princesses, all the mighty
men and women who heard him felt prepare
ton for their high station.
Doyou not know that this simple story of
a Saviour's kindness is to redeem all Ma
tions? The hard heart Of this worlds OBJ
duracy is to be broken before that story.
/ There is in Antwerp, Belgium, one OF the
most remarkable pictures | ever saw. II is
| 1.-THE Descent OF Christ from the Gross"
| 1t is one OF Rubens's pictures. No man can
! stand and look at that Descent from the
! Cross" as Rubens pictured ii. without hay-
/ ing his eyes flooded with tears, If he have any
! sensibilitY at all. 1t is an overmastering
/ picture--1ne that stuns you and staggers
/ you and haunts your dreams. One afternoon
man stood in that cathedral looking at Ru-
/ bens's descent from the Gross. He was
/ all absorbed in that scene Of q Saviour SUI
/ ferings, when the iantor came in aud said:
1T is time TO close up the cathedral for the
night | wish you would depart" The
/ pilgrim, looking at that Descent from the
/ Cross" turned around to the janitor aud
said mo, no: not yet. Wait until they get
/ Him down" Oh, it is the story of a Saviour 5
suffering kindness that is to capture the
world. When the bones Of that great behe-
moth OF antiquity which has trampled all
Nations shall be broken aud shattered, it
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| done by the hammer OF the lcon0clast, or by
the sword of the conquerer, or by the torch
| of persecution, but by the plain, simple,
overwhelming force OF "the soft tongue that
breaketh the bone.
Kindness We all need more of it in our
hearts, our words and our behavior. The
chief characteristic OF our Lord was kind
ness. A gentleman in England died. leaving
his fortune by will 10 two sons. The son
that stayed at home destroyed the fathers
will i,ld 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 vas no son at all but an
impostor. The trial came on Sir Matthew
Hale. the pride OF the English court room
and for twenty years the pride OF jurspru-
dence, heard that that injustice was about
to be praeticed. He put of his official robe.
+ He put on the garb of miller He went to
the village where that trial was to take
| place. He entered the court room, He
somehow got impaneled as one of the Jurors,
The bribes' came around, and the man gave
ten pieces of gold to the other Jurors. but as
this was only poor miller, the briber gave
to him only five pieces Of gold. 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 have received
only five. ""Who are you? Where do YOU CONT
from?' said the judge on the bench. The re.
Spouse was: al am from Westminster Hall
my name is Matthew Hale. Lord Chief Jus.
tice OF the Kings bench. of of that place
thou william" And so the Injustice wai
baked, and so the young man got his in.
heritance.
1t was all for another that Sir Matthew
Hale took off his robe and put IN the gart
OF miller. And so Christ took off His robe
of royalty and put on the attire Of our hu,
mantty, and in that disguise He won on,
eternal portion. Now we are the sons a
| God. Joint heirs. We went off from home
sure enough, but We got back in time to re-
ceive our eternal Inheritance. And If Chris,
was so kind to us, surely we can afford to be-
kind to each other.