Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1901-10-05


wrote for rnc. a boy under him. when
i was seeking settlement in which
20 preach the Gospel. That letter
gave me my first pulpit. Dr. Van
Vranken has been dead more than 30
wears. vet l feel the touch of that
magnificent old professor. Strange
Kensation was Il when l received
kind message from Rev. Thomas
Guard of Baltimore, the great Meth
odiSt orator. six weeks after his
DEATH By way OF the eternal worldf
oh. no: by way OF this world. 4 did
not meet TIE friend 10 whom he gave
the message until nearly two months
after Thomas Guard had assembled
So YOU can start word about some
one that will be on it's travels and
vigorous long after the funeral
psalm has been sung at your obse-
quies. Kindnessi Why. II so men all
aVlow with il should walk through
the lost world methinks they would
almost abolish perdition-
Suppose all this assemblsge and
all 10 whom these words shall come
by printers type should resolve TO
make kindness an overarching, under
girding and all pervading principle OF
their life and then carry out the res
whole earth would feel it, People
would say: What is the matter7 IL
seems TO me that the world is get
ting TO be better place TO live in
Why. life. after all. Is worth living
WHY. there Is Shyiock. my neighbor,
has withdrawn his lawsuit OF fore
closure against that man. and be-
cause he had so much sickness in his
family he is going TO have the house
for one year rent free. There Is an
old lawyer in that young lawyers Of
fee. and do you know what he mas
gone in there for? Why, he Is help
inc TO FIX I'D q case which is too big
for the Young man 90 handle. and the
white-haired attorney is hunting up
/ previous decisions and making out
b brief for the boy. Do you know that
a strange thing has taken place in the
+. ! rulpit and oil tho old ministers are
e helping the young ministers, and all
. the old doctors are helping the young
b doctors. and the farmers arc assist
Z ing each other in gathering the har-
4 vest. and for that farmer who Is SICK
l. the neighbors have made bee, as
5 they call IL. and they have all turned
J, IN to help him get his crops into the
Il Garner? And they tell me that the
who have permanent positions on pa
J. pers are helping the young fellows
p who arc lust beginning 10 try and DO
" not know exactly how 80 do IL. And
u ofter n few ensures and interpola-
a tions on the reporters pad they say;
IN ! ssN~ovv here is a readable account OF
Dr that tragedy: hand il in, and 1 am
Pr sure the managing editor viii take
Of IT,"
TX and heard this morning of poor
in ola man whose three children were II
as bot debate as TO who should take care
Is of him in his declining days The old
he e-t son declared that IL was his righ'
is because he was the Oldest, and tn
er youngest said il was his right becaus
en- he yvns the Youngest. and Mary said
M, - her riobt because she better un
re derstood her fathers vertigo an
M rheumatism and poor spells and kneN
ot- hotter how TO nurse him. and the onl
IN v,av the difficulty could be settled wa
Ike by the old mans promise that d
us would divide the year into three part
Its and spend third OF his time with eae
nd | one of them. And neighboring store
In the same line of goods on the san
ne block are acting kindly 20 each othe
hle II seems 20 me that those words
say Isaiah are being fulhlled when
ind saws: The carpenter encouraged u
for goldsmith and he that smoothed Il
.rs. hammer, him that smote the hnV
me saving. il is ready for the soldering
on What is the matter? IL seems 90 Il
NO our old world is picking up. Why. q
4 millennium must he coming In. Kin
,th- ness has got the victory"
90 Nv hearers, you know and know
der are far from that state of things. y
hat why not inaugurate a new dispens
on ton of eeniality. If we cannot have
Won millennium on a large scale. let
49, have il on a small scale and under O
ros- own veStments. Kindnessi II Il
ous world is ever brought TO God, that
sor- the thing that XIII do il. You cam
ces fret the world up. although you m
- fret the world down. You canT
80 scold II into excellence or reform
I, ~ ton or goodness,
,er- And while we take the matchl
The Kindness from God may ii be for
ana that we have uttered our last bit
aovx word. written our last cutting pa
KAN graph, done our last retaliatory acti
rain felt our last revengefei heart tnr
aod And II would not be a bad epitaph
aces, any OF US IL oy the sraee "i 49, -
soon this time iorin we hNeo s!ich OeN
our cent lives that the tombstone's CHI
vas could appropriately cut upon the pl
p in slab that marks our grave sugs
, Of ton from the text: "He showed "a:
and little kindness" But not until the
I The child Of God has got ashore from
.iieve earthly storms that drove Him on
ana rocks. like Mediterranean Euro