The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-27

after awhile cried to his horses, "Ho"
and said to the gentlemen, II must go
back and help that hog out OF the
mite" And he :did 60 back and put
on tsolid ground that most t1ntnterest-
ing quadruped. That was the spirit
that was MANIFESTED by my departed
friend. Hon. Alexander II. Stephens OF
Georgia-and lovelier man never ex-
changed earth for heayen-when at :.
Washington, A senator's wife, who
told us or the circumstances, said to
him, Mr.. Stephens. come and see my
dead, canary bird" And he answered,
-a1Nb;>I could not look at the poor thing
Without crying" That is the spirit
which last night ten thousand mothers
7 showed, tD.>their -siisfis chi laren coming
/ to give the drink at the tenth call as
cheerfully and as tenderly as at the
first Gans re-
Suppose all this assemblage and all
to whom these. Words shall, come iiby
pFintef's type should resolve to make
kindness an overarching, undergirding
and all-pervadingi principle of their life
and then carry out the resolution. Why
in six months the whole earth would
-matter3 It seems to me that the world
is getting to be a better place to live
in. Why, life after all is worth living.
Why, there is Shylock, my nelghbor,
has, withdrawn his lawsuit of foreelos-
ure against that man, and because he
has had so much sickness in his family
he is going to have the house for one
year rentgfree. There is an old lawyer
iR~that young lawyers Office, and do
you know what he has gone in there
. forA Why, he is helping to- fix up a
case which is too big for the young
man, to- handle, and the white-haired
attorney is hunting up previous de-
cisions and making out brief for the
boy. Do you know that a 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 he.young doctors,
;ahd the farmers are assisting each
other. in gathering the harvest, and
Tor that farmer gWho is sick the neigh
bors have made bee as they call it.
anu lllGg ud1G luIHSu III 10 uGlp
him get his crops, into the garner? And
hfY tell me- that the older and more
sklllful reporters who have permanent
positions ,on papers are helping the
young fellows who are just beginning
TO try aud do not know. exactly how to p
go f. "a Fer Few erFsftfTs and
interpretations on the reporters pad
they say, New here is readable ac--~
count of the tragedyf hand it in, and Il
hnGsnre the managing editor will take
it."
New Dispensation of Geniality.
My heareTs, you know and ii know
we are far from that state of things.
But why not inaugurate a new dispen-
sation ofsgeniality. If we cannot have
a millennium on a large scale, let us
have it.on small scale and under our
own vestments. Kindness! II this
'worldHis everabroaghtsftoz God, that is
the thing that wilf.do IT. You cannot
fret the world up, although you may
fret the world down. You cannot scold
it into excellence or reformation or
goodness.
The east wind and the west wind
were one day. talking with each other,
and the east wind said TO the west
wind: Don't you wish you had my
power2 Why's when start they hail
me by storm signals all along the
coast. Z can twist off q ships mast
as easily. as a cows hoof cracks an
alder, With. one sweep of my. wing 1
In chr t1ao
land to Key .West,:with parted ship
timber. can lift and have lifted, the
Atlantic ocean. j am the terror fof all
|.ihSalidisfa, and,to fight me back for
ests must be cut down for fires, and the
mites of continents are called on to
|, feedithe fulnacesi ppderG rnyg breath
,the nations ucrourh into sepnlchers.
fDoHlt, you wish you had IliS power?"
said the east Wind. aThej west wind
made no answer. but started on it's
mission, coming somewhere.out of the
rosy bowers of the sky, and all the
rivers and lakes and seas smiled at its
coming The gSrdepsl bloomsd and the
orchards ripened and the wheatfelds
turned their silver into gold, and
health. sciapped Ems hands, and JOY
Shouted from the hilltops.> and the ma
tons, lifted their foreheadsS into the
Light and the earth had q doxology.
for the sky and the sky an anthem for
the earth, and the warmth and sparkle
and<the .gladness.s and, the foliage, and 4
the flowers, and the fruits, and the
beauty, and sthe life were the only an
Sssef the Re%s WAND made to the in4
sshiehee OF Gle east winds interroga-
And while we take this matchless
kindness FROM God, may it be found
that. we. have uttered our last bitter
word, Written our last cutting, para
graph, done our last retaliatory action.
felt our Aast g5I'evenseful heart thfob1
And it would not be a bad 'epitaph for
any of us if, by the grace of God, from