The Chanute times. [volume] (Chanute, Kan.) 1897-1913, 1901-01-04


Furthermore. comforting word fitly
spoken is a beautiful thing. No one
but God could give the inventory Of
sick beds and bereft homes and broken
hearts. We ought not to let day pass
without q visit or letter or mes
sage or. prayer consolatory. You
could call five minutes on your way
to the factory, you could leave a half
hour earlier in the afternoon and I'LL a
mission of solace. You could brighten
sickroom with one chysanthemum,
You could send your carriage and give
an afternoon airing to an invalid on
neighboring street. You could loan
book with some chapters most adapted
to some particular misfortune. 90
home today and make out a list OF
things you can do that will show SYM
pathetic thoughtfulness for the hardly
| bestead. How many dark places you
might illumine! How many tears you
could stop, or, II already started, you
could wipe away; How much like
Jesus Christ you might get to be! So
sympathetic was he with beggary. so
helpful was he for the fallen, and so
stirred was he at the sight of dropsy,
epilepsy, paralysis and ophthalmia that
whether he saw 1t by the roadside, or
at the sea beach. or at the mineral
baths of Bethesda, he offered relief.
Cultivate genuine sympathy, Christlike
| sympathy. You cannot successfully
dramatic it. False sympathy Alexan-
der Pope sketches in two lines:
I Before her face her handkerchief she
spread
To hide the food of tears she did not
she'd"
A Word of Warming.
So also is a word of warning A
ship may sail out of harbor when the
sea has not so much as ripple, but
what foolhardy ship company would
they be that made no provision for
high winds and wrathful seas. How
ever smoothly the voyage of life may
begin wO will get rough weather before
we hartor on the other side, and we
need ever and anon to have some one
uttering in most decided tones the
word beware" There are all the
thing and to forget that an inch OF
ground is larger as compared with
the whole earth than this life as COM
pared with our external existence
There are all the temptations of the
wine cup and the demijohn, which
have taken down as grand men as this
or any other century has heard of
There are all the temptations of pride
and avarice and base Indulgence ant
ungovernable temper. There is M
the word beware"
The trouble is that the warning wore
is apt to come too late. We allow oul
friends to be overcome in fight witt
some evil habit before we sound al
alarm. After a man is all on fire will
evil habit your word of warning will
have no more effect than would an ad
dress to house on fire asking it t.
step burning no more use than steam
tug going out to help ship after |
has sunk to the bottom of the ocean
What use in word of warning to tina
inebriate whose wife was dying from
wounds inflicted by his own hand? A
he held the hand of his dying wife h
made this vow: Mary, l will neve
take another glass Of strong drink un
til | take it from this hand which
now hold" In an awful way he KEEP
the VOW, for when the wife was in he
coffin he filled glass with brandy, pu
the glass into the dead hand, then tool
the glass out of the hand, and dranl
the liquid. Too late does any warning
come to such an one. But many {
man now high up in usefulness ant
honor was stopped on the wrong roat
by kindly hand put upon the shout
der and word fifty spoken. All, yes
fifty spoken-that is, at the right time
with the right accentuation, and the
right emphasis.
Speak with Patience.
There must be no Impotence in thu
warning we give others. We mus
realize that but for the kindness o
God to us we would have been in thu
same rapids. That man going wrons
may be struggling with tide of evi
inherited from father and grandfathe
and great-grandfater The presen
temptation may be the accumulate,
force of generations and centuries
mo" you say, his father was goot
man. | knew him" But did yo'
know his grandfather? Evil habit il
apt to skip one generation, fact rec
ognized in the Ten Commandments
which speak of the third and fourtl
generations, but say nothing OF thu
second generation.
Or the man astray may have an un
happy home. and that is enough Il
wreck any one We often speak Of mer
who destroy their homes, but do MOI
say anything about the fact that there
are thousands of wives in America who
by petulance and fretting and incon-
sideration and lack of economy and al
manner of disagreeableness drive thell
| husbands into destination The reason