Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-09-27

vnen you can speak a good word for
some one, speak it. If you can conscien-
tiously give a letter of recommendation, I
give it. Watch for opportunities for do Z
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 4
seminary wrote for me- boy under him,
when was seeking q settlement in which /
to preach the gospel. That letter gave
me my first pulpit. DR.. Van Franken
has been dead more than thirty years. yet
/ feel the touch of that magnificent old
professor. Strange sensation was it when
/ 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. l did not
meet the friend to whom he gave the
message until nearly two months after
Thomas Guard had assembled. So you
can start a word about some one that
win 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 methinks they
would almost abolish perdition.
Kindness of Action.
Furthermore, there is kindness of ac-
ton That is what Joseph showed to his
outrageous brothers. That is what Da-
vid showed to Mephibosheth for his ia
Their JOnathan's sake. That is what One
| siphorus showed to Paul in the Roman
| penitentiary. That is what William Cow
per recognized when he said he would not
trust a man who would with his foot
needlessly crush q worm. That is what
our assassinated President Lincoln dem
onstrated 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 illus
triOus man exhibited years before when,
having with some lawyers in the carriage
on the way TO court passed on the road a
swine fast in the mire, after awhile cried
to his horses, "HOw and said to the gen
tlemen, Il must 90 back and help that
hog out of the mire" And he did go
back and put on solid ground that most
uninteresting quadruped. That was the
spirit that was manifested by my depart
ed friend, Hon. Alexander II. stephens
of Georgia-and lOyeier man never ex
changed earth for heaven-when al
Washington. A senator's wife, who tolt
us of the circumstances, said to him
"Mr. Stephens, come and see my deat
canary bird" And he answered, mo;
could not look at the poor thing without
, crying" That is the spirit which las
night ten thousand mothers showed t.
t their sick children coming to give thu
) drink at the tenth call as chGerfully anC
as tcnderly MS at the first call.
? Suppose all this assemblage and al
D to whom these words shall come b!
Q printers type should resolve to maxi
y kindness an Oyerarching. undcrgirdini
= and all pervading principle Of their lif
4 and then carry out the resolution. Why
J.; in six months the whole earth would fee
i it. People would say: 'What is tn
+ matter? 1t seems to me that the worl
: is getting to be a better place to live in
e Why, life after all is worth living. Why
s, there is Shylock, my neighbOr, has with
d drawn his lawsuit of foreclosure agGins
d that man, and because he has had S
l. much sickness in his family he is goin
It to have the house for one year rent fret
le There is an old lawyer in that yOun
it lawyers office. and do you know what b
e has gone in there for? Why, he Is hell
II ing to fix up a case which is too big fC
II the young man to handle, and the whit
IS haired attorney is hunting up previor
I'll decisions and making out n brief for ii
boy. Do You know that strange thin
s. has taken place in the pulpit, and all Il
10 old ministers are helping the young mil
5 listers, and all the old doctors are helpir
g the young doctors. and the farmers a
S assisting each other in gathering the ha