Vernon County censor. [volume] (Viroqua, Wis.) 1865-1955, 1901-09-25
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the name of the offender lest it should
hinder me granting him favor some. oth-
er time. Now, l want you 20 know that
kindness is royal flower and blessed be
God, the King of mercy and grace, that
BY divine gift, and not by purloining, we
may pluck this royal flower and not wear
( it on the outside of our nature, bun wear
Il In our soul and Wear il forever, its
radiance ana aroma not more wonderful
for tiine than wonderful for eternity.
stiil further. | must speak of kindness
! Of word When you meet any one, do
You say pleasant thing or an uapleas-
/ anti Do you tell him of agreeable things
You have heard about him or the dis
agreeable? When he leaves You, does he
feel better or Hoes he feel worseg Oh,
/ the power Of the tongue for the produc-
lion If happiness or misery, One would
think from the way the tongue is Gagged
10 we might take the hint that it has u
dangerous power. Fist it is chained 10
the baek part of the month by strong
mascle. THEN it is surrounded by the
teeth of the lower jaw. so many ivory
lars, and then by the teeth of the upper
jaw, more ivory bars. Then outside OF
all, are the two lips, with the power Of
compression and arrest. And yet, not
! withstanding these four imprisonments
o. limitations, how many take no hint in
regard TO the dangerous power of the
! tongue, and the results are laceration,
scarifcation and damnation. There are
those if they know good thing about
yor aud a bad thing will mention the
bed hing and act as though they had
u "a t41 hs. II hon
re two sides to almost every ones
character, ae'i We have the choice I
0 erhauling the virtue or the vice. We
eat greet Paul and the ships crew as
! the come up the beach of Malta with
the wGrds: What sorry looking set
You are. How little of navigation you
must know TO run on these rocks.
Didn't You know better than to put out
on the Mediterr lnean this wintry month
1t was not muct Of a ship anyhow, or it
would not have gone to pieces as soon as
that. Well. what do you want? We
have hard enough work to make a living
/ for ourselves without having thrust on
, us 276 rasaBuilins.' Not SO said the
( Maltese. | think they said: Come in!
Sit down by the fire and warm Your
! selves. Glad that you all got off with
your lives. Make yourself at home.
Iop are welcome 10 all we have until
some ship comes in sight and you resume
yos.f voyage. Here, let me put a band
age en- your forehead, for that is an
ugly cash you got from the floating tim
! bers. And here is 4 man with broken
arm; we will have doctor come to at
tend to his fracture And though for
three months the Kindness went on, we
hay.. little r.ore than this brief record:
The arbarous people showed US no lit
tie XII ness.
Hopeful and Cordial Words.
Oh, say the cordial ching. Say the use
full thing Say the hospitable thing. Say
b he helpful thing. Say the Christlike
Lining. Say the kind thing. / admit that
it is easier for some temperaments than
| for others. Some are born pessimsts.
and some are born optimists, and that
demonstrates itself all through every
thing. 1t is a cloudy morning. Yor meet
G pcssimst, and you say, What weather
to-dayT' He answers, tits going to
storm" and umbrella under arm and wat
/ erproof coat show that he is honest in
that utterance. On the same block. a
minute after, you meet an optimist, and
you say, what do you think of the COM
mercial prospects,? and he says: ''Glori-
| Gus. Crops not so good as usual, but for
eign demand will make big prices. We
are going to have sGch an autumn and
winter of prosperity as we have never
seem On your way back to your store
you meet a pessimist merchant, ':What
do you think of the commercial pros
pectsT 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 hailstorm, and our business is as
duh as it ever was" You win 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
THE papers said so, and that's enough
Down with hiln.'' The optimist viii say,
Il don't believe word of it, | 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 CON
dennl him." My hearer, il you are by
nature a pessimist, make a special effort
by the grace of God to extirpate the dol
oroas and the hypercriticaI from your dis
position. Believe nothing against any
body until the wrong is established by at
least two witnesses of integrity. And. if
guilt be proved, find out the extenuating
circumstances, If there are any Kind
ness! Let us. morning, noon and night
pray for it until we get it.
When you can speak good word or
some one, speak it. If vaIi can conscicn-
tiously give letter Of commentator
give It, Watch for Opportunities for do
ing good fifty years after you are dead
All my life has been affected by the LET
ter of introduction that the Rev. ID. Van
Vranken Of New Brunswick Theological
Semina ~ wrote for me, a boy unGer him.
when was seeking a settlement in which
TO preach the gospel. That letter gave
me my first pulpit. Or. Van Eranken
has been dead more than thirty years. Yet
/ feel the touch of that magnificent old
professor. Strange sensation was it when
! received kind message from Rev.
Thomas Guard Of Baltimore, the great
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 10 whom he gave the
message until nearly two months after
Thomas Guard mad 3seended. So you
can START word about some one that
viii be on IFS travels and vigorous Tong
after fhe funeral psalm has been sung ut
your obsequiese. Kindness. Why, if Fifty
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