Connecticut western news., 1901-09-26


 mist win say: "I don't believe word of it. l don't think that luau tlut has been as useful and seemingly honest for twenty years could have got of track like that. There are two sides to this story. and I will wait to hear the other side before l condemn him." My nearer. if you are by nature a pes simist, make a special effort by the grace of God to extirpate the dolorous and the hypercritical from your dispo- sition. Believe nothing against any body until the wrong Is established.
 Speak n Good Word.
 When you can speak good word for some one. speak 1t. If you can con- scientiously give letter of recommends ton, give 1t. Watch for opportunities for doing good fifty years after you are dead. All my life has been affected by the letter of introduction that the Rev. Dr. Van yranken of New Bruns- wick Theological seminary wrote for me, boy under him. when was seek ing settlement In which to preach the gospel. That letter gave me my first pulpit. pr. Van Vranken has been dead more than thirty years, yet feel the touch of that magnificent old pro lessor. Strange sensation was It when I received a 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. I did not meet the friend to whom he gave the message until nearly two months after Thomas Guard had ascended. So you can start a word about some one that will be on It's travels and vigorous long after the funeral psalm has been sung at your obsequies. Kindness! Why, If fifty men all aglow with 1t should walk through the lost world me thinks they would almost abolish per ditionl
 Furthermore, there Is kindness of ac- ton. That is what Joseph showed to his outrageous brothers. That Is what David showed to Mephibosheth for his father Jonathan's sake. That is what Onesipherus showed to Paul in the Ro- man penitentiary. That is what Will | liam Cowper recognized when he said | he would not trust a man who would with his foot needlessly crush a | worm. That is what our assassinat- | cd President Lincoln demonstrated | when his private secretary found him In the capitol grounds trying to | get bird back to the nest from which | 1t had fallen and which quality the | illustrious man exhibited years before when, having, with some lawyers, in the carriage on the way to court passed ' fa iv, ha .,,lre after awhile cried to his horses, "Hor' and said to the gentlemen, Il must go back and help that hog out of the mire." And he did go back and put on solid ground that most uninteresting | Quadruped.
 ] Victory Through Good Will. | Suppose all this assemblage and all 1 to whom these words shall come by printers Ink should resolve to make and all prevailing principle of their life and then carry out the resolution,
 why, In six months the whole earth would feel 1t. People would say: What Is the matter? It seems to me that the world Is getting to be better 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
 because he has had so much sickness
 Ia his family 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 | .t~4 4ol~ &-.k t~l~ xl
 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 pulpit, and
 all the old ministers are helping the
 young ministers, and all the old doctors
 are helping the young doctors, and the
 farmers are assisting each other In
 gathering the harvest, and for that
 farmer who is sick the neighbors have
 made a bee, as they call it, and they
 have all turned in to help him get his
 crops into the garner?
 And heard this morning of poor
 old man whose three children were in
 hot debate as to who should take care
 of him In his declining days. The old.
 est son declared 1t was his right be.
 cause he was the oldest, and the youn.
 gest son said 1t was his right because
 he was the youngest, and Mary said Il
 was her right because she better un
 derstood her fathers vertigo and rheu
 matism and poor spells and knew bet
 ter how to nurse him, and the only way
 the difficulty could be settled was by
 the old mans promise that he would al
 vide the year into three parts and
 spend a third of his time with each one
 of them. And neighboring stores 1T
 the same line of goods on the same
 block are acting kindly to each other
 It seems to me that those words of Isa
 iah are being fulfilled when he says
 The carpenter encouraged the gold
 smith, and he that smoothed with tn,
 hammer, him that smote the anvil, say
 ing, 1t is ready for the soldering Wha . Is the matter? It seems to me our olC world Is picking up. Why, the millen
 nium must be coming in. Kindness ha: got the victory" Good and Evil Contrasted. ) The east wind and the west win6 , were one day talking with each other } and the east wind said to the wes } wind: Don't you wish you had m.
 power? Why, when I start they hai
 me by storm signals all along the coast 9 I can twist off a ships mast as easil, ]! as a cows hoof cracks an alder. Witl : one sweep of my wing I have strewr t the coast from Newfoundland to Ike. : West with parted ship timber. I cal 3 lift and have lifted the Atlantic ocean !. I am the terror of all invalidism. ant l to fight me back forests must be GU J down for fires, and the mines of cont ] nents are called on to feed the fur e naces. Under my breath the nations } crouch into sepulchers. Don't you wisl f | You had my nnWerY said the pas