Owingsville outlook., 1896-09-03
KIND WORDS.
DR.. Talmage's Beautiful Lesson From
the Proverbs of Solomon.
~ soft Tongue Brcake,h IA Bone"-Re-
verse Natures First Impu;sr to ''Sirike
IiaCk'-Kind Words Never Die
and soften the Hitter
Struggle OF Life.


Struggle of Life.
DIR. Talmage's text Sunday was
'rovcrb, NNv., Il. "A soft tongue
| hreakrth the bone"
When solomon said this he drove a
whole volume into one phrase. Nou,
a course, will not b. 81 silly $ to take
the words of the text j.. a literal sense.
They simply meaa To set forth the fact
that there is a tremendous power in Il
kind word. Although il may seem tO
be very iusigniiic mt, its force is in
drScrihah!c and illim;tablc. Pungent
and al 4 'nqu,r.ng u;tcrancr: ~ soft
nagur Ercukcth the hone"
If hid time would show Won kind
ness aS \ man, o. de 'cnSc, as means
OF u>. fu ~ 's~. Kindness as means of
! 3 'mcst." harmony, kindness a. best
| r'hPlnyrd 10y goy'rnm 'nt> for the tlm-
! iU AMI ca inr Of criminals, and kind
II - ~ hest adapted for the settling
aud ndirs.inr uf international quar-
r''.: but | shall call Your attention only
! tn two nf these thnughtS
And first p al, H. YOU of kindness
~ Il means of drfrn,. Almp> every
man iu the course "f his life iS set upon
a .d a~~Iuttr /. luur motives are mis-
| interpreted or Nour religious or pplit-
| cal prncipic> arr hpmhIrdri. What
/ to lu under ~ucI cir,dm stances i the
question. The fist ina pulse of the nat
ural hvart ~n~. ''Stri,r back. Give as
| Iauch a, hr ,,'n;. Trip h,m into the
| .f.rh 'h.ch IA Ia : Tor your feet. Cash
! 10. with q. srkcIc a wom a. that
| w.,.ch a. I'D e." "a yod.' sui. Shot
! i,, snat SIrtL IN for sarcasm. An
ryr ,ur az cyv. \ Atubth Cor a tooth. "
| Eut t..r i"t ter spirit IN the mans soul
| ~.,-s un and says: Won ought to con-
slider iha' mater" lnn lnn'i up in the
! fac, g. th. ii and say: My Master,
h -, ou-'.' To ..ct upd II tbs, lil,icllt
cream stances" Aal Christ instant.
! J. IA .wcr.. ''!:jc,,rl.m that rarsc YOU.
anI pray Tor "a ',n " wiici r>pit,fully
gse you. 1hcn ,hr old nature rises
up az. IN an / SAYS: "loI had better
not farg.v' him until first you have
rhaNti~rd IA m You will never get h III
! il - tight corner a"ain. You will
never have such Al opportunity of in
dieting the right kini of punishment
| N ou h'm again First chastiSc him
and then t hin go" No. SAYS the
better naiur'. hush, thou foul hract
Try the SOFT tongue that brcalleth the
| bone. Have Nuu ever In AL your
! .tr kuowl acsrbi;y and acr.m ,nious
dispute 80 settle a qILrrci: D.d they
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dnd worse aaa W.T. 4? About iiitv-iivc
! ,cIr, ago there was a great quarrel in
! ;Ir Presbyterian family. Minister'S ui
! Christ were though: or -huloN in pro
| p,rt;on as th-y had measured lancta
| " III oth.r cTgymcU . TIL SImc de-
aom 'natiol. : Ia mo-. outrIgron,
- - pnyl ties WYE abroad. As il tAc
autnmn, a huat,r comes hp&I, with 4
,trinE ~ gL.r', partridge, AMI wi d
!uciSs, slung over his shoaldcr. So
there wcrs M ny HiriN'crS who came
h.c,l from the ccr! 'sia.:ical courts
with loaT strings q doctors of divin,
tv whom tECv had $40. with their
Own riir. The division became
wider tina animcsity greater. until aft
e. awhile some goo men resolved upon
another tack. Thry began tn uNp'r
away the diff mites; they began l. .-.
give each Others faults: and L.. -h"
grrat church quarrel was s"ti.,r. and
the new school Presbyterian { re-,
and the old school Presbyterian chuI
became one. Thn different parts OF
the Pres bytcri1n order, welded by n
hammer. a little hammer, IA Christian
hammer that tho Scripture calls "a
soft tCngUo.'
You have a dispute with your neigh.
bcr. Nou say to him. IL despiSc You BE-
IIr replirs. Il cant bear the-:sht of
ven" You say tt him, "Never enter
mT house again. lie says, 'It yor
come on my door sill I'll kic, you
! OFF, You say tt him, ri put yoI
down" lie slys to you, ''lou are mis-
taken; I'll put yoI down" Aud So the
contest RACES. and year after year yOu
act the ulchristlan part, and he acts
the unchristian part. After awhile
the better spirit seizes you, and one
day you go over to the neighbnr an d
say:
Give me your hand. We have
fought long enough. Time is so short,
and eternity so near, that we can not
afford any longer to quarrel. feel
vou have wronged me very muchi but
let us settle all now in one great hand
shaking and be good friends for all the
rest of our lives" You have risen to a
higher platform than that on which
before yon stood. You win his admira-
tion and you get his apology. But il
You have not conquered him in that
way, at any rate you have won the an-
plause of your own conscience, the
| high estimation of good men, and the
honor of your Lord who died for His
armed enemies.
But" You say, what are we tn dc
when slanderers assault us, and there
come acrimonious sayings all around
about us, and we are abused and spit
upon?" My reply is: Do not go and
attempt to chase down the ISLANDERS.
| Lies are prolific, and while you are
killing one, 80 are born. All your
demonstrations of indignation only ex'
haust yourself. You might as well on
some summer night when the swarms
of insects are coming up from the
meadows and disturbing you and dis
trbing your family, bring up some
great swamp angel like that which
Numbered over Charleston, and try
to shoot them down. The game is
too small for the gun. But what
then, are you to do with the
abuses that come upon around
his head, and buzzed around his
hands, and buzzed around his feet. II
he had killed one of them they would
have stung him to death. But ht
moved in their midst in perfect placic
ity until he had captured the swarm OF
wandering bees. And so | have seen
men moving amid the annoyances. and
the vexations, and the assaults of lifa
i'm such calm, Christian deliberation
that all the buzzing around about their
soul amounted to nothing. They con
quered them, and, above all, they con-
luered themselves. ''Oh,' you say
that's very good theory to preach on
a hot day, but it won't work" 1t will
work. 1t has worked. | believe il is
the last Christian grace we win Nat