Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1896-08-31


they shall BE as wool. That man is dy-
ing forever for the lack of one kind
word. There used to be sung at a great
many Of the pianos all through the
country a song that has almost died out.
| wish somebody would start it again IN
our social circles. There may not have
been very exquisite art in the music,
but there was grand and glorious SEN
timent:
Kind words never die, never die.
Cherished and blessed.
Fxtility 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 bring out
more homer suckles than fretfulness and
scolding will ever bring out Christian
grace. I wish that in all our religious
work we might be saturated with the
spirit Of kindness. Missing that, we
miss a 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-
oily Of the rheumatisns, and the neural
gias, and the headaches. and the phys
ical 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 81,
Richelieu at 81, Gustavus Adolphus
died at SO, Innocent III came to his
mightiest influence at 81. Cortes con-
quered Mexico at 30, Don John won
Lepanto at %, Grotius was attorney
general at "a, and I have noSoed amid
all classes Of men that some of the Sc
verest battles and the toughest work
come before 80. Therefore we must
have our sermons and our celebrations
in prayer meeting all sympathetic with
the young. And so with these people
farther on 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
browbeating of legal opponents, the I'M
fairness of customers, who have plenty
Of fault finding fer every imperfection of
handiwork, but no praise for 20 excel
lences. What does that brain racked,
hand blistered man care for Zwingli's
Doctrine of Original Sin" or Angus
tines Anthropology? You might as
well go to man who has the pleurisy
and put on his side 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 being
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
sermon may not be appropriate to our
case, if we wait prayerfully, before the
sermon is through we shall have the
divine prescription. say to these young
men who are going to pzaach the gospel.
these theological students say to
them: We want in our sermons not more
metaphysics, nor more imagination, nor
more logic, nor more profundity. What
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
lines and the forecastles. When Richard
Weaver preached to the operatives in
Oldham, England, all the workingmen
felt they had moro 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 I ever saw. It is The Descent
of Christ From the Gross. y It is one of
Rubens' pictures. No man can stand
and look at that Descent From the
Cross as Rubens pictured it without
having his eyes flooded with tears, If he
have any sensibility at ALL 1t is an
overmastering plcture-one that stEns
you and staggers you and haunts your
dreams One afternagn q man stood in
that cathedral looking at Ruben's ssDe-
scent From the Cross. He was all abb
sorbed i'll that scene of Saviour suf-
erings when the janitor came in and
said: ct is time to close up the cathe-
dral for the night. I wish you would
depart. :" The pilgrim looking at tE4t
Descent From the Gross turned
around to the janitor and said: mo,
no, not yet. Wait until they get him
down. Oh, it is the story Of Saviour's
CT, ffnrinc kindness that is r., cayt,,,.o tI,n
world. When the bones of that great
behemoth Of iniquity which has tram
pied all nations shall be broken and
shattered, it will be found out that the
work was not done by the hammer Of
the iconoclast, or by the sword of the
conqueror, or by the torch of persecu-