Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1896-09-18

shall be AS snow; though they are red like
crimson. they shall be az wool. That man
Is diving forever for the lack OF one kind
word.
O. that we might in our families and In
our churches try the force of kindness. You
can never drive men, women or children into
the kingdom of God. March northeasteI
will bring out more honeysuckles than fret
fulness and scolding will bring out Christian
grace / wish that in all our religious WORK
we might be saturated with tho spirit OF
kindness. Missing that we miss great
deal of usefulness. There is no need oil
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 1t just as much
as the old. The old people sometimes seem
to think they have monopoly OF the rheu-
matisms, and the neurag ias. and the head
aches. and the physical disorders OF the
world; but I 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 thirty-seveD, Richelieu at thirty-one;
Gustavus Adolphus died at thlrty-eight; In
nocent III came to his mightlest influence
at thirty-seven; COrtez conquered Mexico ut
thirty: Don John won Lepanto at twenty
five; Grotius was Acknowledgement at twen-
ty-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 exhortations in prayer meeting all SYM
pathetic with the young. Aud so with these
people further on in life. What do these
doctors and lawyers and merchants and me-
chanics care about the distractions OF re-
Y.;on? What they want is help to bea, tile
Mhimsiralities OF patients, the browbeafing
Of legal opponents. the unfairnsss of Gus
toners. who have plenty Of faultfnding for
every imperfectlon of han liwork. but 10
,>-aise for twenty excelleuces. What does
that bran-racked, hand-bIstered man care
for Swingle's "Doctrine of Original Sln." or
Augustine's "Anthropology?" You might as
well go to man who has the pleurisy aud
nut on his side plaster made out of Dr.
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 l. It
Immediately get the medicine; we know oua
turn will come after While. Aud so, while
all parts Of the sermon may not be appro-
pirate 10 our case, If we went prayeriuly,
before the sermon is through we shall have
tho divine prescription. / say % these young
men who are going TO preach the Gospel,
these theological students-Is say 10 them, We
want In our sermOnssnot more metaphysics,
nor more imagination, nor more logic, nor
more r,cfunlity. What we want in our SER
mons and Christian celebrations is more
sympathy. When Father Taylor preached in
the Sa lors' Bethel at Boston. the jack tars
felt that they had help for their duties amoLg
the ratiues aud tho forecastle5. When
Richard Weaver pyeache | to the operatives
in Oldham. Eaglin', al the working men
felt that they bud more grace FOR the spin
dies. When DR.. South preached to Kings
and Princes and Princssscs, all the mighty
mon and women who heard him felt prepara-
ton for their high station.
Doy NOT know that this simple story OF
Saviours kindness is to redeem all Ma
tions? The hard heart of this worlds OBJ
duracy is to DO broken before that story.
There is In Antwerp, Belgium, one of the
most remarkable pictures | ever saw. 1t is
"The Descent of Christ from the Cross"
1t is ono of Rubens's pictures. No man eau
stand aud look at that descent from tho
Cross. as Rubens pictured it, without hay
ing his eyes flooded with tears, if he have any
ut alt II is an oyermastering
pIcture-one that stuns you ana staggers
q man stood in that cathedral looking at Ru-
beus's descent from the Cross" He was
all absorbed in that Sc we OF a Savour's suf-
ferings, when the janhO Or came in aud saG'
'It is time to close up the cathedral for tho
night. l wish you would depart" The
pilgrim, looking at that descent from the
Cross" turned around to the ianitor and
said: "No, no; not yet. Wait until they get
Him down" Oh, it is the story Of Saviours
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 and shattered, it
will b. found out that the work was not
done by the hammer of the iconoclast, or by
the sword of the conquerer, or by the torch
of persecution, but by the pain, simple,
overwhelming force of 'tho soft tongue that
breaketh the bone"
Kndnessl 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 and pretended that the brother who was
absent was dead and buried. The absent
brother, after awhile, returned and elaine
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. Tho trial came on. Sir Matthew
Hale. the pride OF the English court room
and for twenty years the pride OF jurispru-
dence, heard that that injustice was about
to be practice6. He put O:c his official robe.
BE 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 brides came around, and the man gave
ten pieces OF gold to the other jurors, but as
his WAS only poor miller, the briber gave
to him only i've pieces OF gold. A verdict
was brought in rejecting the right of this re4
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 come
Trom?' said the Judge on the bench. The re.
,ponse was: 81 an from Westminster Hall;
my name is Matthew Haze, Lord Chief JUS
ice Of the Kings bench. OF of that place.
hou villiann' And so the Injustice was
baked, and 50 the young man got his in.
leritance.
1t was all for another that Sir Matthew
Hale took off his robe aud put IN tho garb
Of miller. Aud so Christ took off His robe
Of royalty and put on the attire of our hu.
mainly, and in that disguise He won our
eternal portion. Now we are the sons OF
God. Joint heirs. We went Off from home
sure enough, but we got back in time to re-
,eive our eternal Inheritance. And If Christ
was so kind to us, surely we can afford to be
ind IN QnOh M