Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1901-09-23

to make q living for ourselves without
having thrust on us 276 ragamuffins.
Not so said the Maltese. | think they
said: Come in. Sit down by the fire
and warm yourselves. Glad that you
all got off with your lives. Make your
selves at home. You are welcome to
all we have until some ship comes in
sight and you resume your voyage.
Here, let me put a bandage on your
forehead, for that is an ugly cash you
got from the floating timbers. And
here is q man &yith a broken arm We
will have doctor come to attend to
this fracture" And. though for three
months the kindness went on. we have
little more than this brief record: 1.-THE
barbarous people showed us no little
Kindness"
Power OF Kindness.
Oh, say the cordial thing. Say the
useful thing! Say the hospitable thing!
Say the helpful thing! Say the Christ
like thing Say the kind thing! admit
that this easier for some tempera-
ments than for others Some are born
pessimists, and some are born opti-
mists, and that demonstrates itself all
through everything. It is a cloudy
morning. You meet a pessimist, and
you say, what weather today?' He
answers, cts going to storm" and
umbrella under arm and waterproof
overcoat show that he is honest in that
utterance. On the same block q min
ute after you meet an optimist, and
you say, What weather tOday?"
Good weather; this is only a fog and
will soon scatter" The absence OF UNI
brella and absence of waterproof over
coat show it is an honest utterance.
On your way to noon luncheon you
meet an optimistic merchant, and you
say, What do you think Of the COM
mercial prospects," and he says: "Glo-
rious. Crops not SO 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
seem" On your way back to your store
you meet a pessimiStic merchant.
what do you think of the commercial
prospects," you ask. And he answers:
well, don't know. Wheat and corn
crop blasted in Kansas and Missouri,
and the grain gamblers will get their
fist in, and the hay crop is short in
some places, and in the southern part
of Wisconsin they had a haiIstorm,
and our business is as dull as it ever
was" You will find the same differ
ence in judgment Of character. 4 man
of good reputation is assailed and
charged with some evil deed. At the
first story the 'pessimist will believe in
guilt. The papers said so. and that's
enough. Down with him." The opti-
mist will say: Il don't believe a word
Of it. l don't think that a 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 1 will wait to hear
the other side before 1 condemn him."
My nearer, if you are by nature q pes
simist, make a special effort by the
grace of God to eXtirpate the dolorous
and the hypercritical from your dispo-
sition. Believe nothing against any
body until the wrong is established.
Speak Good Word.
When you can speak a good word
for some one, speak it. If you can con-
give letter of recommends
ton. 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 Vranken of New Bruins
wick Theological seminary wrote for
me, boy under him, when l was seek ,
Ing a settlement in which to preach the
gospel. That letter gave me my first I
pulpit. DR.. Van Vranken has been (
dead more than thirty years, yet l feel
the touch Of that magnificent old pro- !
fessor. Strange sensation was it when
received a kind message from Rev. /
Thomas Guard of Baltimore, the great I
Methodist orator, six weeks after his
death. By way 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 assembled. So !
you can start word about some one i
that will be Oh it's travels and vigorous !
ong after the funeral psalm has been .
sung at your obsequies. Kindness! /
Why, if fifty men all aglow with it !
should walk through the lost world me- !
thinks they would almost abolish per- .
1ition!
Furthermore, there is kindness of ac- |
ton. That is what Joseph showed to |
lis outrageous brothers. That is what /
David showed to Mephibosheth for his |
father Jonathan's sake. That is what
showed to Paul in the Ro-
man penitentiary. That is what VIII
lam Cowper recognized when he said /
ne would not trust a man who would
n
worm. That is what our assassinat-
I'd President Lincoln demonstrated
when his private secretary found
aim in the capitol grounds trying to
get bird back to the nest from which