Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-09-27

Dunu anu the catalogue 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 |
executioners while yet they pushed the
spear and hammered the spikes and
howled the blasphcmies. All the stories
of the John Towards and the Florence
Nightingales and the Grace Darlings and
the Ida Lcwiscs pale before this trans
cendent example of him whose birth and
life and death are the greatest story that
the world over heard and the theme Of
the mightiest hosanna that heaven ever
lifted. Yea. the very kindness that al
lowed both hands to be nailed to the
horizontal timber Of the cross with that
cruel thump. thump now stretches down
from the skies those same hands filled
with balm for all our wounds, forgiveness
for all our crimes, rescue for all our serf-
doms.
And while we take this matchess kind
ness from God may it be found that we
have uttered cur last bitter word, written
our last cutting paragraph. done oar last
retaliatory action, felt our last revengeful
heart throb. And it would not be a bad
epitaph for any of US if. by the grace Of
God. from this time forth we lived such
benehcent lives that the tombstone's
chisol could appropriately cut upon the
plain slab that marks our grave a sugges-
! ton from the text. "He showed us no tit
tie kindness" But not until the last
] child of God has got ashore from the
/ earthly storms that drove him on the
rocks like Mediterranean EurOelydOns,
not until all the thrones of heaven are
mounted and all the cOnquerOrs crowned,
and all the harps and trumpets and or
gans of heaven are thrummPd or blown
| or sounded and the ransomPd of all climos
and ages are in full chorus under the jul
bilant swing of angelic baton. and we
shall for thousands Of years have seer
the river from under the throne rolling
into the "sea of glass mingled with fire.
and this world we now inhabit shall Ike sc
far in the past that only a stretch Of ce
lestial memory can recall that it ever ex
listed at all, not until then will we under
stand what Nehemiah calls ''the grea
Kindness" and David calls "the marvel
GUS Kindness" and Isaiah calls 1.-THE ever
. lasting kindness" of God.
GrnOe Mt Meals.
During the last generation it was yer!
rare 10 SeG any ANtLtlg beBAA lAcdi Will
out grace, but the omission OF this cere
mony Is becoming more common ever!
day in some sections.
: 1t seems that there is like decline o
the custom in England. An Englisl
writer who has observed this tendenc
l for several years past and is much pain
ed by it declares that the abandonment
$ Of grace before meals is 1.-THE most not
e nblefchange in private religious obserV
$ Rnce in London"
b The Springfield (Mass.) Republica
|. makes the surprising declaration tina
t Saying the blessing is still observed 0
e ''many public occasions, but that it
i comparatively seldom heard in New EN-
$ land families, even when they are d.
e seconded from Puritan forbears and hay
s inherited the whole body of Puritan tn
n ditions."
u The habit Of saying grace may ha'
II fallen off to some extent in the south, b.
II it has not declined to anything like Il
y extent it has in either New England
n old England. 1t is still the rule in Il
ie great majority of southern household
3 and will continue so for a long time
~ come.-Atlanta journal.