Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1901-10-24

under divine help. Thisties grow without
culture. Rocky Mountain sage grass grows
without culture. Mullen stalks grow
| without culture. But that great red rose
| in the conservatory, its leaves packed on
| leaves, deep dyed as though it had been
obliged to fight for it's beauty and it were
| still reeking with the carnage of the battle.
| that rose. needed to be cultured, and
through long years. it's floral ancestors
| were cultured O God. implant kindness
| in all our souls. and then give us grace to
| watch it, to enrich it. to develop it!
| The King q: Prussia had presented to
| him by the Empress of Russia the root OF
| rare flower, and it was put in the royal
dener Herr Fintleman, was told to watch
| it. And one day it put forth it's glory.
| Three days of every week the people were
admitted to these gardens, and a young
man. probably not realizing what wrong
thing he was doing. plucked this flower
dener arrested him he was crossing at
the ferry and asked the king to throw
open no more his gardens to the public.
| The king replied: 'Shall ] deny to the
thousands of good people of my country
the privilege of seeing this garden because
one visitor has done wrong? No; let them
| come and see the beautiful grounds" And
when the gardener wished to give the
king the name of the offender who had
taken the royal flower he said No; my
memory is very tenacious. and / dc. not
| want to have in my mind the name of the
offender. lest it should hinder me granting
| him favor some other time" Now, |
| want you to know that kindness is a 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. but wear 1t in our soul and
wear it forever, it's radiance and aroma
not more wonderful for time than wonder
| full for eternity.
On your way to noon luncheon you meet
an optimistic merchant. and you say,
What do you think of the commercial
| prospects, and he says: GLORIOUS!
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 pessimistic merchant. What do
you think of the commercial prospects,"
you ask. And he answers: We'll, l don't
| know Wheat and corn crop blasted in
| Kansas and Missouri. and the grain gam.
blers will get their fist in, and the hay
| crop is short in some places and in the
southern part of Wisconsin they had a
hailstorm, and our business is as dull as
| it ever was
| You will find the same difference in
Judgment of character. man of good
reputation is assaled 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 optimist will say: Il don't
| believe word of it. | 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 I will wait to hear the
other side before | condemn him."
My hearer, if you are by nature a pes
simist, make a special effort by the grace
| of God to eXtirpate the dolorous and the
| hypercrtical from your disposition. Be
lieve nothing against anybody until the
wrong is established.
When you can speak a good word for
some one, speak it. If you can conscien-
tiously. give letter of recommendation: on;
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 Brunswick Theological
Seminary, wrote for me, boy under him,
when | was seeking a settlement in which
to preach the gospel. That letter gave me
my first pulpit. DR.. Van Vranken has
been dead more than thirty years, yet /
feel the touch of that magnificent old pro-
| fessor. Strange sensation was 1T when l
received a kind message from Rev Thomas
Guard, of Baltimore, the great, Methodist
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 as
| cended.
So you can start word about some one
| that will be on its travels and vigorous
long 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 methnks they
would almost abolish perdition
Furthermore, there is kindness of ac-
TtnN, l. ,lnt L.. Il, ,rhAt raI tN h,-
outrageous brothers. That is what David
showed to Mephibosheth for his father
Jonathan's sake. That is what Onesiphe-
rus showed to Paul in the Romi peniten-
tiary. That is what William Cowper rec
ognizcd when he said he would not trust
crush a worm. That is what our assassi-
mated President Lincoln demonstrated
| when his private secretary found him in
the capitol grounds trying to get a bird
back to the nest from which it had fallen
and which quality the illustrious man ex-
| hibited some years before when, having,
with some lawyers, in the carriage on the
way to court passed on the road swine
| fast in the mire, and after while cried
to his horses, 'Ho!' and said to the gem
tlemen, Il must go back aad help that
! hog out of the mire" And he did go back
and put on solid ground that most unin-
! teresting quadruped.
| Suppose all this assemblage and all to
whom these words shall come by printers
| ink should resolve to make kindness an
overarching, undergirding and all pervad'
ing principle of their life and then carry
out the resolution, why, in six months the
whole earth would feel it. People would
say: What is the matter? 1t seems to
me that the world is getting to be a bet
ter place to live in. Why, life, after all,
is worth living Why, there is Shylock,
my neighbor, has withdrawn his lawsuit
of foreclosure against that man, and be-
cause he has so much sickness in his fam
| lily he is going to have the house for one
year rent free. There is an old lawyer in
that young lawyers office, and do you
know what he has gone in there for!
Why he is helping to fix up case which
is too big for the young man to handle,
and the white haired attorney is hunting
up previous decisions and making out
brief for the boy. Do you know that a
strange thing has taken place in the pull
pit, and all the old ministers are helping
| the young ministers, and all the Old doc.
tors are helping the young doctors, and
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