Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1902-01-25

credit that we are in a state of good
cheer, but in the lives OF ninety-nine
out CT a hundred there is a pathetic
side, a taking off deficit, an anxiety
trouble. By genial look, by kind
word. by a helpful action, we may lift
little of the burden and partly clear
the way for the stumbling foot. Oh,
what glorious art it is to say the
right word in the right way at the
right timei
Alexander the Great won the love of
his soldiers on foot by calling them
fellow footmen. Rehoboam lost the
ten tribes through his discourtesy.
More thoughtfulness for others-let us
all cultivate it,
Many years ago two men entered the
largest locomotive workshops in Phil
adelphia. They were treated in a very
Indifferent way and were allowed to
depart without any show of courtesy.
They went into other shops, and no
especial attention was given them.
After awhile the two men entered a
smaller shop. and the overseer took
great pains in showing them every
thing and how they wrought and on
what plan the shops were run. The
two visitors were agents of the Gar
of Russia. and those shops were trans
ferred to St. Petersburg, and that po-
lite man that bestowed such attention
was called to build the locomotives for
all the railroads of Russia and had for
tune after fortune roll in upon him.
Courtesy is mighty force in temporal
things as well as in spiritual things.
Let us start each year, each month,
each day, with the question, What can
L do to make others happy? On our
way to Office or store or shop or rail
train let be alert for heaven de-
scended opportunities
The time must come when the world
VIII acknowledge international cour-
tesy- Now courtesy between nations
is chiefly made of rhetorical greeting,
Dut as soon as there is a difference of
interest their ministers plenipotentiary
are called home, and the guns of the
forts are put in position, and the army
and navy get ready. Why not a cour-
tesy between nations that will defer
to each other and surrender a little
rather than have prolonged acrimony,
ending in great slaughter? Room for
all nations of the earth and all styles
of government. What the world wants
is less armament and more courtesy
less of the spirit of destruction and
more of the spirit of amity. This CEN
tury has opened with too many armies
in the field and too many men-of-war
on the ocean. Before the century closes
may the last cavalry horse be hitched
to the pillow and the last warship be-
come a merchantman.
There is nothing worthy in the
thought that the earth will get too
crowded with population if vast null
titudes are not destroyed by war
When our old world is full of inhabi-
tants, it will have fulfilled its mission,
and it will be put aside like an old
ship turned into a navy yard and dis
mantled and the worlds inhabitants
transferred to some other constella-
tion- The angels in the song celebrat-
ed this coming international courtesy
when in the Bethlehem starlight they
chanted, Good will to men,
If others lack courtesy, that is no
reason why you should lack it. Re-
spond to rudeness by utmost affabili-
ty. Because some one else is a boor
is no reason why you should be boor
So 1 applaud Christian courtesy. 1
would put it upon the throne of every
heart in all the world. The beauty of
1t is that you may extend it to others
and have just as much of it-yea, more
of it-left in your own heart and life
1t is like the miracle of the loaves and
fishes, which, by being divided, were
multiplied until twelve baskets were
filled with the remnants. 1t is like a
torch, with which fifty lamps may be
lighted and yet the torch remain as
bright as before it lighted the first
lamp.
But this grace will not come to its
coronal until it reaches the heavenly
sphere What a world that must be
where selfishness and jealousy and
pride and ascerbites of temper have
never entered and never will enter!
No struggle for precedence No rival
ry between cherubim and seraphim
No ambition as to who shall have the
front seats in the temple of God and
the Lamb No controversy about the
place the guest may take at the ban
Quet- No rivalry of robe or coronet
No racing of chariots. No throne look
ing askance upon other thrones, but
all the inhabitants perfectly happy and
rejoicing in the perfect happiness
of others. If I never get to any other
delightful place, 1 want to get to that
place. What a realm to live in for
ever! All worshiping the same God.
all saved by the same Christ, all ex-
periencing the same emotions. all
ascending the same heights of love