Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1896-09-04

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him for this life, and saved him for the
life that is TO come. He was afterward
attorney general Of the United States;
but, higher than all, he became the con-
fecrated disciple Of Jesus Christ. Kind
words are so cheap it is a wonder we
do not use them Oftener. There are tens
Of thousands Of people in these cities
who are dying for the lack Of one kind
word. There is a business man who has
fought against trouble until he is per-
fectly exhausted. He has been thinking
about forgery, about robbery, about sui
eide. Go to that business man. Tell
him that better times are coming and tell
him that you yourself were IN tight
business pass and the Loid delivered
you. Tell him to prt his trust III God.
Tell him that Jesus Christ stands beside
every business man in his perplexities.
Tell him Of the sweet promises Of Gods
comforting grace. That man Is dying
for the lack Of Just one kind word.
Go tomorrow and utter that one say
ing, omnipotent, kind word. Here is a
soul that has been swamped in sin. He
wants to find the light Of the gospel. lie
feels like shipwTecked mariner look
ing out over the beach, watching for a
sail against the sky. Oh, bear down on
him. Tell him that the Lord waits TO be
gracious TO him, that though he has
been a great sinner there is great
Saviour provided. Tell him that though
his sins are as scarlet, they shall be as
snow; though they are red like crimson,
they shall be as wool. That man is dy-
ing forever for the lack Of one kind
word. There used TO be sung at great
many Of the pianos all through the
country a song that has almost died out.
l wish somebody would start it again in
our social circles. There may not have
been very exquisite art in the music,
but there was q grand and glorious SEN
timent:
Kind words never die, never die,
Cherished and blessed.
FutIIIty of Fretfulness.
Oh, that we might in our families and
in our churches try the force Of kind
nessl You can never drive men, women
or children into the kingdom Of God.
A March northeaster will bling ont
more honeysuckles than fretfulness and
scolding will ever 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 TO them the law unless at
the same time you preach to them the
gospel. The world is dying for lack of
kindness.
These young people want it just as
much as the old. The old people some-
times seem to think they have a monop-
oly of the rheumatisms, and the neural
Qias, and the headaches, and the phys
ical disorders Of the world, but l tell
Won 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-
ouered Mexico at 80, Don John won
Lepanto at %, Grotius was attorney
general at "a, and have noticed amid
all classes of men that some OF the Sc
yerest battles and the toughest work
come before 30. Therefore we must
have our sermons and our exhortations
in prayer meeting all sympathetic with
the Young. And so with these people
farther OIL in life. What do these doc
tors and lawyers and merchants and
mechanics care about the distractions OF
religion? What they want Is help to
bear the whimsicalities Of patients, the
brow beating Of legal opponents the un-
fairness of customers, who have plenty
of fault finding for every imperfectlon OF
handiwork, but no praise for 20 excel
lences. What does that brain racked,
hand blistercd man care for Zwlngn
Doctrine Of Original Sin" or Angus
tines "Anthropology" You might as
well 90 TO a man who has the pleurisy
and put Oh his side a plaster made out
of DR.. PARIS Treatise on Medical Ju-
risprudence.
In all our sermons there must be help
for every one somewhere. You go INTO
an apothecary store We see Others beng
waited on. We do not complain because
we do not Immediately get the medi-
cine. We know our turn will come after
awhile And so while all parts OF a
sermon may not be appropriate TO our
case. il we wait prayerfully, before the
sermon is through we shall have the
divine prescription. l say TO these young
men who are going to preach the gospel
these theological students say 10
them: We want in our sermons not more
metaphysics, nor more imagination, nor
more logic, nor more profundlty. Nhat
we want in our sermons and Christian
exhortations 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
I
lines and the forecastles When Richard
Weaver preacRsd TO the operatives IN
Oldham, England, all the workingmen
felt 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 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. Ii is 1.-The Descent
Of Christ From the Cross. 1t Is one OF
Rubens' pictures. No man can stand
and look at that Descent From the
Cross" as Rubens pictured II without
having his eyes flooded with tears, II h'
have any sensibility at all IL IS al
overmastering picture-one that stun'
You and staggers you and haunts you
dreams One afternoon a man stood II
that cathedral looking at Ruben's DE
scent From the Cross" He was all alb
sorbed in that scene Of a Saviour's sui
erines when the janitor came in anf
said: "It is time to close mp the cathe
dral for the night. wish you would