Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1901-09-27

1tdu tIOit lAUh ltHIS. vet Il Keel
the touch OF that magnificent old pro-
fessor. Strange sensation was II when
1 received a kind message from Rev.
Thomas Guard OF Baltimore, the great
Methodist orator, six weeks after his
death. By way OF the eternal world?
oh, no; by way of this world. I did
not meet the friend to whom be gave
| the message until nearly two months
after Thomas Guard had assembled SO
you can start word about some one
that will be on Its travels and vigorous
long after the funeral psalm has been
sung at your obseQuies. Kindnessl
Why. IL ifty men all aglow with 1t
should walk through the lost world me-
thinks they would almost abolish per-
dition!
Furthermore, there Is kindness Of ac-
ton. That is what Joseph showed TO
his outrageous brothers. That is what
David showed to Mephibosheth for his
father Jonathan's sake. That is what
Onesipherus showed to Paul in the Ro-
man penitentiary. That is what Will
liam Cowper recognized when he said
he would not trust a man who would
with his foot needlessly crush a
worm. That is what our assassinat-
ed President Lincoln demonstrated
when his private secretary found
him in the capitol grounds trying to
get bird back TO the nest from which
1t had fallen and which quality the
illustrious man exhibited years before
when. having, with some lawyers. in
tue carriage on the way to court passed
/ fhn 90 H.,
| after awhile cried to his horses, "How
and said to the gentlemen, 81 must go
back and help that hog out of the
mire." And he did go back and put on
solid ground that most uninteresting
quadruped.
Victory Through Good VIII.
Suppose all this assemblage and all
to whom these words shall come by
printers Ink should resolve TO make
Kindness an overarching. undergirding
and all peryading principle of their
life and then carry out the resolution,
why, In six months the whole earth
would feel it. People would say: what
is the matterf 1t seems to me that the
world is getting to be better place to
live in. Why, life. after ali, is worth
living. Why, there is Shylock, my
neighbor. has withdrawn his lawsuit
or foreclosure against that man, and
because he has had so much sickness
In his family he is going to have the
house for one year rent free. There is
an old lawyer in that young lawyers
office, and do you know what be has
gone in there for? Why. he Is helping
to fix up case which is too big for the
young man to handle. and the white
haired attorney is hunting up previous
decisions and making out a brief for
the boy. Do you know that strange
thing has taken place in the pulpit, and
all the old ministers are helping the
young ministers, and all the old doctors
are helping the young doctors, and the
farmers are assisting each other In
gathering the harvest. and for that
farmer who is sick the neighbors have
made bee, as they call II, and they
have all turned in to help him get his
crops into the garner?
| "And 1 heard this morning of a poor
| old man whose three children were in
hot debate as to who should take care
OF him In his declining days. The old
est son declared 1t was his right be-
cause he was the oldest, and the youn-
gest son said it WINS his right because
he was the youngest, and Mary said it
was her right because she better un-
derstood her fathers vertigo and rheu-
matism and poor spells and knew bet
ter how TO nurse him. and the only way
the difficulty could be settled was by
the old mans promise that he would d.
vide the year into three parts and
| spend n this.i OF his time with each one
or them. And neighboring stores In
the same line OF goods on the same
block are acting kindly TO each other.
Ii seems to me that those words OF Isa-
lab are being fulfilled when he says.
The carpenter encouraged the gold
smith, and he that smoothed with the
hammer, him that smote the anvil. say
ing. II Is ready for the soldering What
is the matter? 1t seems to me our old
world Is picking up. Why, the millen-
mum must be coming In. Kindness has
got the victory"
Good and EVIL Contrnsted.
The east wind and the west wind
were one day talking with each other.
$500 e~~ NoSt VIM SSl0 10 Tue west
wind; Don't you wish you had my
powerf Why, when / start they hail
me by storm signals all along the coast.
l can twist or a ships mast as easily
as cows hoof cracks an alder. With
one sweep OF my wing have strewn
the coast from Newfoundland to Key
West with parted ship timber. I can
l!ft and have lifted the Atlantic ocean.
am the terror OF all invalldism, and
10 light me back forests must be cut
down for fires, and the mines of conti-
nents are called on to feed the fur
naces. Under my breath the nations
crouch into sepulchers. Don't you wish
you had my power?" said the east
wind. The west wind made no answer.
but started on its mission, coming
somewhere out OF the rosy bowers or
the sky, and all the rivers and lakes
and seas smiled at Its coming. The
gardens bloomed, and the orchards rip
ened. and the wheatfelds turned their
silver into gold, and health clapped Its
hands, and JOY shouted from the hill
tops, and the nations lifted their fore
heads into the light, and the earth had
doxology for the sky and the sky an
anthem for the earth and the warmth
and sparkle and the gladness and the
foliage and the flowers and the fruits
and the beauty and the life were the
only answer the west wind made to the
insoience OF the east winds interroga-
ton.
Kindness to all! Surely 1t ought not
10 be difficult grace to cultivate when
we see towering above the centuries
such an example that one glimpse of IT
ought to melt and transform all na-
tons. Kindness brought our Lord from
heaven. Kindness to miscreants. kind
ness to prosecutors, kindness to the
crippled and the blind and the catalep-
tic and the leprous and the dropsical
and the demoniacal characterized him
all the way and on the cross, kindness
to the bandits suffering on the side of
him and kindness to the executioriers