The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-03-13


kiHdues. Beser. Kindness.
in other words. manage to keep miser-
able all the time The old song sung at
the pianos quarter Of a century ago was
right: Kind words can never die Such
kind words have their nests In kind
hearts and when they are hatched out
and take wing, they circle round In fights
that never cease. and sportsman's gun
cannot shoot them, and storms cannot
ruffie their wings. and when they cease
flight in these lower skies of earth they
sweep around amid the higher attitudes
Of heaven. AT Baltimore. I talked into a
phonograph. The cylinder containing the
words was sent on to Washington, and
the next day that cylinder from another
photographic instrument, when turned
gave back to me the very words l had
Uttered the day before, ard yith the same
iiTonations. Scold into a phonograph ard
IL will scold back Pour mild words into a
phonOgraph and 1t Will return the gentle
ness. Society and the world and the
church are monographs Give them aeer-
bity and rough treatment, and acerbity
and rough treatment you will get back
Give them practical friendi1ness. and they
will give back practicai friendliness. A
father asked his little daughter: Mary.
why Is IL that everybody loves youg she
answered: don't know, unless it is be-
cause l love everybody a man that hath
friends must show himself friendly
I'VE want something like that spirit of
sacrifice for others which was seen III
the English Channel. where in the storm
boat containing three men was upset,
and all three were in the water struggling
A hs.1 r.,
lief, and a rope was thrown 90 one OF
them and he refused TO take it. saying:
First fling Ii to Tom; he is Just ready TO
go down. / can last some time longer A
man like that, be he sailor or landsmaa,
be he IN upper ranks of society or lower
ranks, will always have plenty of friends.
What is true manward Is true GodWard
We must be the friends of God IL We
want Him To be our friend. We cannot
treat Christ badly all our lives and ex-
Pect Him 10 treat us lovingly. / was read
ing of sea fight in which Lord Nelson
captured a French officer and when the
French officer offered Lord Nelson his
hand Nelson replied: First give me your
sword and then give me your hand Sur
render of our resistance 10 God must pre-
cede Gods proffer of pardon to US. Re
pentance before forgiveness. You must
give up yorr rebelliOus sword before you
can get a grasp Of the Divine hand.
Nuke a Friend of God.
'Oh, what a glorious state of things 10
have the friendship of Godi Why. we
could afford to have all the world against
US and all other worlds against US If We
had God for US. He could in a minute
blot out this universe, and in another
minute make a better universe, | have
no idea that God tried hard when He
made all things The most brilliant thing
known TO us is light, and for the creation
OF that he only used a word of command
As out OF flint d frontiersman strikes a
spark, so out of one word God struck the
monday sun For the making of the
present universe / do not read that God
lifted so much as a finger The Bible fire.
quentiy speaks of Gods hand and Gods
arm and Gods shoulder and Gods foof.
then suppose He should put hand and arr,
and shoulder and foot to utmost tension
Wnat could He not make? That God of
such demonstrated and undemonstrated
strength, you may have for your present
and everlasting friend, not a stately ana
reticeni friend, hard TO get at but as
approachable as a country mansion on a
summer day, when all the doors and win
dows are wide open Christ said. I am the
door And He is q wide door. a high
door, palace door. an always open door.
AONA tNIiu got nurt and
did not cry until hours after when her
metner came home. and then she burst
INTO weeping ana some of the domestics
not understanding human nature. said M
heT, why did you not cry before? She
answered, There was no one TO cry to-
Now, / have 10 tell YOU that while hu-
man sympathy may be absent, divine SYM
pathy Is always accessible Give Cod
your love, and get mis- love; your service
ana secure MS help; your repentance and
that means all your wounds medicatad
all your sorrows soothed and if some
sudden catastrophe should hurl vo, ont
of earth 1t would, only hurl YOU into
heaven. N
IF God is your friend. you cannot go
out OF the world too quickly or suddenly
so far as Your own happiness is con-
cerned. There We're two Christians who
entered heaven; the one was standing an
a window in perfect health, watching a
shower, and the lightning instantly slew
MIN; put the lightning did not flash down
the SKY as swiftly as his spirit flashed
upward. The Christian man who died
on the same day next door had been for
a year or two failing IN health. and for
the last three months had suffered from a
disease that made the nights sleenless
and the days an anguish Do YOU nor
really think that the case of the one who
went instantly was more desirable than
the one who entered the shining gate
through long lane of insomnia and con-
gestion? In the one case IL was like your
standing Wearily at a door. knocking and
waiting. and wondering II II will ever
open. and knocking and waiting again,