The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1901-01-05

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more attractive
Furthermore. a comforting word ltly
spoken is a beautiful thing. No one
but God could give the inventory OF
sick beds and bereft homes and broken
hearts. We ought not to let a day pass
without a visit or a letter OF e mes
sage or a prayer consolatory. You
could cali five minutes on your way
70 the factory. you could leave a half
hour earlier IN the afternoon and FIJI a
mission Of solace. You could brighten
a slckroom with one ehysanthemum.
You could send your carriage and give
an afternoon airing to an invalid on a
neighboying street. You could loan a
book with some chapters most adapted
to some particular misfortune Go
home today and make out a list Of
things you can do that viii show sym
pathetic thoughtfulness for the hardly
bestead How many dark places yoa
might illumine! How many tears you
could stop, or, II already started. you
could wipe away: How much like
Jesus Christ you might get to be- So
sympathetic was he with beggary, so
helpful was he for the fallen, and so
stirred waJ he at the sight OF dropsy.
epilepsy, paralysis and ophthalmia that
whether he saw It by the roadside, or
at the sea beach. or at the mineral
baths Of Bethesda. he offered relief.
Cultivate genuine sympathy. Christlike
sympathy You cannot successfully
dramatic 1t. False sympathy Alexan-
der Pope sketches in two lines:
Before her face her handkerchief she
spread
TO hide the food Of tears she did not
shed"
A Word OF warming.
So also is word Of warning A
ship may sail out Of harbor when the
sea has not so much as a ripple, but
what foolhardy ship company would
they be that made no provision for
high winds and wrathfll seas. How
ever smoothly the voyage Of life may
begin wo will get rough weather before
we hartor on the other side. and we
need ever and anon to have some one
uttering in most decided tones the
word beware" There are all the
temptations to make this life every
thing and to forget that an inch Of
ground is larger as compared with
the whole earth than this life as COM
pared with our external existence.
There are all the temptations Of the
wine cup and the demijohn, which |
have taken down as grand men as this |
or any other century has heard OF
There are ali the temptations OF pride
and avarice and base Indulgence and /
ungoyernable temper There Is no
word We all need oftener to hear than
the word beware"
The trouble is that the warning word
Is apt to come too late. We allow our
friends to be overcome in fight with
some evil habit before we sound an
alarm After a man is all on fire with
evil habit your word OF warning will
have no more effect than would an ad-
lress to a house on fire asking it to
stop burning, no more use than a steam
.ug going out to help a ship after II
has sunk to the bottom Of the ocean.
What use in word OF warning to that
nebriate whose wife was dying from
Wounds inflicted by his own hand? AS
le held the hand Of his dying wife he
made this vow; Mary. / will never
AXE another glass OF strong drink un-
n I take It from this hand which |
low hold" In an awful way he kept
he vow, for when the wife was in her
onin he filled a glass with brandy. put
he glass into the dead hand, then took
he glass out Of the hand, and drank
he liquid Too late does any warning
ONE to such an one. But many
nan now high up in usefulness and
onor was stopped on the wrong road
y a kindly hand put upon the shoul-
er and a word fifty spoken. All, yes,
tly spoken-that Is, at the right time,
nth the right accentuation, and the
light emphasis.
SPEAK win Eatoucci
There must be no impatience in the
Tarning we give others. We must
salize that but for the kindness OF
cd to us we would have been in the
anne rapids. That man going wrong
lay be struggling with a Tide OF evil
lherited from father and grandfather
nd great-grandfater The present ]
smptation may be the accumulated ]
,rce OF generations and centuries. 1
No, you say. 'his father was a good
ian. knew him" But did you .
now his grandfather Evil habit is
pt to skip one generation. a fact rec
ynized in the Ten Commandments.
hich speak Of the third and fourth
snerations, but say nothing OF the /
icond generation.
Or the man astray may have an un-
Apply home. and that Is enough to [,
reck any one. We often speak Of men