The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1901-09-26

the ferry and asked the king to throw
omen no more his gardens to the public.
The king replied: "Shall I deny to the
thousands Of good peonle of my country
the privilege OF seeing this garden because
one visitor has done wrong? No; let them
come ind see the beautiful grounds" And
when the gardener wished to give the
king the name Of the offender who had
taken the royal flower he said: ''No; nay
memory is very tenacious. and l do not
offender. Lest ID should hinder inc granting
him favor some ether time NOW, L
want you to know that kindness is a royal
flower, and, blessed be God, the King of
Mercy and Grace. that by a divine gift
end not by purloining we may pluck this
royal flower and not wear IL on the outside
Of our nature, but wear It in our soul and
wear IL forever. it's radiance and aroma
not more wonderful for time than wonder
full fer eternity.
On your way to noon luncheon you meet
an optimistic merchant and you say.
'TWhat do you think of the commercial
prospectsR and he says: "Gloriousl
Crops not 80 good as usual. but foreign
demand will make big prices We are
going to have such an autumn and winter
prosperity as we have never seen"
On your wav back to your store YOU
meet a pessimistic merchant. 'What do
You think of the commercial prospectsp
YOU ask. And he answers 'Well. don't
know. Wheat and corn crop blasted in
Kansas and Missouri. and the grain gam
blers will get their fist in. and the hay
crop is short in some places and in the
southern part Of Wisconsin they had
haistorm, and our business is as dull as
il ever was"
You will find the same difference in
judgment Of character. a man Of good
reputation is assailed and charged with
some evil deed At the first story the
pessimist will believe in guilt. ''rhe papers
said so, and that's enough. Down with
him!" The optimist will say "I don't
believe a word of it. I don't think that
man that has been as useful and seemingly
honest for twenty years could have got off
track like that. There are two sides to
this story. and ] will wait to hear the
other side before ] condemn him."
My hearer, if you are by nature pes
simist. make a special effort by the grace
| Of God to extirpate the dolorous and the
| hypercritical from your disposition. Be
lieve nothing, against anybody until the
| wrong is established.
When you can speak good word for
some one. speak it. If you can conscien-
| tiously give letter OF recommendation.
| give it. Watch for opportunities for
doing good fifty years after YOU are dead
| All my life has been affected by the letter
| of introduction that the Rev DR.. Van
Seminary, wrote for me, boy under him.
when | was seeking settlement in which
, to preach the gospel. That letter gave me
my first pulpit. DIR. Van Vranken has
been dead more than thirty years, yet
! feel the touch of that magnificent old pro.
| fessor. Strange sensation was it when |
received kind message from Rev. Thomas
! Guard of Baltimore, the great Methodist
orator, six weeks after his death. BY wav
of the eternal world? Oh, no; by way Of
this world. did not meet the friend to
whom he gave the message until nearly
two months after Thomas Guard had as
| eended.
/ 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. Kindness Why, il
fifty men all aglow with it should walk
through the lost world methinks they
would almost abolish perdition!
Furthermore, there is kindness of sc-
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 Onesiphe-
rus showed to Paul in the Roman peniten-
tiary. That is what William Cowper rec
ognized when he said he would not trust
a. man who would with his foot needlessly
| crush a worm. That is what our assassi-
mated President Lincoln demonstrated
when his private secretary found him in
the capitol grounds trying to get bird
back to the nest from which it had fallen
and which quality the illustrious man ex-
hibited some years before when, having,
with some lawyers, in the carriage on the
way to court passed ON the road a swine
| fast in the mire and after while cried
to his horses, 'Ho" and said to the gem
tlemen, Il must go back and help that
hog out of the mire." And he did go back
and put on solid ground that most unin-
teresting quadruped.
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 pervad-
ing principle of their life and then carry
out the resolution, why, in six months the
whole earth would feel it. People would
say: "What 10 the matter! 1t seems to
me that the world is getting to be bet
ter place to live in. Why, life, after all,
is worth living Why, there is Shylock,
my neghbor, has withdrawn his lawsuit
of foreclosure against that man, and be-
cause he has SO much sickness in his fam
lily he is going to have the house for one
wear rent free. There is an old lawyer in
that young lawyers Office, and do you
know what he 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
| Driel IOf tnc DOy. DO you hiioN that a
strange thing has taken place in the pull
pit, and all the old ministers are helping
| the young ministers, and all the old doc.
| tors 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 a
bee, as they call it, and they have all
turned in to help him get his crops into
the garnery
And | heard this morning of poor old
man whose three children were in hot de-
bate as TO who should take care OF him in
his declining days. The Oldest son de-
| clared it was his right because he was the
oldest, and the youngest son said 1T was
| his right because he was the youngest,
| and Mary said it was her right because
she better understood her fathers vertigo
| aud rheumatism and poor spells and knew
better how to nurse him, and the only
way the difficulty could be settled was by
| the old mans promise that he would di.
vide the year into three parts and spend
third Of his time with each one of them
| And neighboring stores in the same line
| of goods on the same block are acting
| kindly to each other. IL seems to me that
| those words OF Isaiah are being fulfilled
| when he says, ''The carpenter encouraged
| the goldsmith, and he that smoothed With
| the hammer, him that smote the anvil,
| saying, it is ready for the soldering"
| What is the matterg II seems to me our
! old world is picking up. Why, the millen.
MUM must be coming in. Kindness has