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

pass now TO the other thought that
desire TO present. and thar is. kindness as
"a means OF usetulness. ln all coInnuni-
ties you ind scepilca. men, Through
I early education. or through the maltreat-
meut II professed Christian people, or
through prEing curiosity about the future
word. there are great many people v no
become sceptical in religious Things. How
SHAH you capture them FOR Godt Sharp
argument and sarcastic retorr never won
O. single soul from sceqtlcism 20 the
/ Christian religion While powerful books
T on THE Evidences Of Christianity have
. their mission in confirming Christian peo-
. pie in the tairn they have already adopt
/ ed. I have noticed that when sceptical peo-
I pie are brought into the kingdom OF
I Christ. it Is through the charm of some
. genial soul. and not hy argument al all.
I Men are not saved through the head, they
are saved through the heart. storm
T comes out of i-s hiding-piace. L says.
/ Now wei just rouse up an this sea-
/ and 30 makes a great buster. but 10 does
I not succeed. Part OF the sea is reused mp
/ per htrs one-half of il or one-fourth Of
+ 10. After awhile the calm moon. placid
1 and beautiful. looks down, and the ocean
. begins to rise II comes up
I 20 high-water-mark II embraces
] the great headlands. It submerges tine
I beach Of all The continents. II is the
Y heartthrob OF one world against the heart
/ throb Of another world. And ] have to tell
p ,
/ and storms of sarcasm may rouse Up the
I passion Of an immortal nature. nothing
I less than the attractive power Of Chris
] tian kindness can ever raise the dcathless
/ spirit TO happiness and 10 God. ! have
more faith in the prayer of a child five
/ years old. in the way of bringing an inhdel
1 back TO Christ and 10 heaven. than 1 have
Z in all the kissing thunderbolts Of ecclessi-
I astiCal controversy. You cannot overcome
men with religious augmentation II you
I come at "a scepucal man with an argument
/ on behalf of the Christian religion, YOU
put the man on his mettle. He says: 4
see that man has a carbine. IN use my
/ carbine. I'll answer his argument with
\ my argument" But If you come TO that
/ man. persuading him that YOU desire his
/ happiness on earth and his eternal welfare
/ In the world TO came, he cannot answer it.
What I have said is just as true in the
/ reclamation of the openly vicious. Did
/ you ever know a drunkard to be saved
/ through the caricature of a drunkard?
/ Your mimicry Of the staggering step and
! the thick tongue and the disgusting hic-
I cough, only worse maddens his brain.
/ But if you come to him in kindness and
! sympathy; If you show him that you APP
] preciate the awful grip of a depraved APP
/ petite. if you persuade him Of the fact
| that thousands who had the graphing
| hooks Of evil inclination clutched in their
| soul as firmly as they now are i'm his
| will flash across his vision, and it will
| seem as If a supernatural hand were
! steadying his staggering gait. good
| many years ago there lay in the streets
| Of Richmond Va, man dead drunk, his
| face exposed to the blistering MONDAY
| sun. A Christian woman passed along
looked at him and said Poor fellow"
She took her handkerchief and spread II
over his face and passed on The man
reused himself up from his debauch and
| began TO look at the handkerchief. and
| 10! on Il was the name of a highly re-
spectacle Christian woman of the city
Of Richmond. He went to her, he thank
| ed her for her kindness. and that one
| little deed saved 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 consecrated 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 lis a business man who
has fought against trouble until he is per-
fectly exhausted. He has been thinking
about forgery. about robbery, about
suicide. Go to that business man. Tell
him that better times are coming, and tell
him that you yourself were in tight bus
iness pass. and the Lord delivered you.
Tell him 10 put his trust in God. Tell him
that Jesus Christ stand besides every
business man in his perpleXities. Tell
him Of the sweet promises of Gods COM
forting grace. That man is dying for the
lack of just one kind word. Go tomorrow
and utter that one saving, omnipotent
kind word. Here is a soul that has been
swamped in sin. He wants to find the
light of the Gospel He feels like a ship
wrecked mariner looking out over the
beach, watching for a sail against the sky.
o, 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 a great Saviour provided. Tell him that
2 though his sins are as scarlet. they shall
} be as snow; though they are like red Grim
} son they shall be as wool. That man is
! dying forever for the lack of one kind
l word There used to be sung at great
! many of the pianos all through the coun.
try a song that has almost died out.
, wish somebody would start ii again in our
{ social circles There may not have beer
e very exquisite art in the music but there
was a grand and glorious sentiment:
! Kind words never die. never die;
5 Cherished and blessed.
!, oh. that we might in our families and il
l our churches try the force of kindness
You can never drive men. women or chill
d dren into the kingdom of God. A Marcel
q northeaster will bring out more honey
suckles than fretfuness and scolding vii
d ever bring out Christian grace. l wisl
that in all our religious work we Nigh
! be saturated with the spirit of kind
/ ness. Missing that. we miss great dea
of usefulness There is no need of com
ing out before men and laundering t,
them the law unless at the same tim,
you preach to them the gospel. The work
= is dying for lack of kindness.
y These young people want it just a.
e much as the old. The old people some
j times seem TO think they have monop
' oily of the rheumatisms. and the neural
= gias, and the headaches, and the phys
i ical disorders of the world; but / tel
$ you there are no worse heartaches than
are felt by some of these young people
2 Do you know that much of the work il
| done by the young? Raphael died al 81
Richelieu at 81; Gustavus Adolphus die,
a at SS; Innocent III. came to his mighties
. influence at 81; Cortez conquered MeNiC,
e at 80; Don John won Lepanto at %; Gro
: thus was attorney general at p
+ and I have noticed amid all classes O
I men that some of the severest battles
e and the toughest work come before 50