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

and say, Doctor, you saved my life
When you hear of p business man in
some heavy stress of financial weather
heIping Trailer craft into the harbor
go into his counting room and say, "I
hear you have been helping your fell
low business man to outride the tenn
pest of a panic, and l came in to thank
you for the good advice you gave
ard to let you know that all good
citizens appreciate what you have
been doing" Go down the street to-
morrow and thank somebody. There
are hundreds of people who never get
thanked at all Plenty of severe
criticism, plenty of faultfinding, plenty
of misinterpretation, plenty of depre-
citation, but as to gratitude is
market in which the supply does not
equal the demand.
In the cultivation of this habit of
Christian courtesy let us abstain from
joining in the work of defamation.
1t is a bad streak in human nature
that there are so many people who
prefer to believe evil instead of good
concerning any one under discussion.
The more faults man has of his own
the more wiling is he to ascribe faults
to others.
" nat curse Vi cyHlcS anu neSSl-
mists aff1icts our time, affiicts all time!
There are those who praise no one un-
til he is dead. Now that he is clear
under ground and a heavy stone is on
top of him there is no possibility of
his ever coming up again as a rival.
Some of the epitaphs on tombstones
are so fulsome that on resurrection
day man rising may. if he reads the
fnr hc iplx !,
into the wrong grave.
There are two sides to every mans
character-a good side and an evil
side. The good see only the good and
the evil only the evil, and the proba-
bility is that medium opinion is the
right opinion. Most of the people
whom 1 know are doing about as we'll
as they can under the circumstances.
The work of reform is the most
important work, but many of the re-
nothing but evil, and they get so used
to anathema they forget the usefulness
once in awhile of d benediction They
get so accustomed TO excoriating pub
lie men that they do not realize that
never since John Hancock in boldest
chirography signed the Declaration of
picked up the floating land flowers
that showed him he was coming near
some new country, have there been
so many noble and splendid and
Christian men in high places in this
country as now. You could go into
the presidents cabinet or the United
States senate or the house of repre-
sentatives in this city and find plenty
of men capable of holding an old
fashioned Methodist prayer meeting,
plenty of senators and representatives
and cabinet officers to start the tune
and kneel with the penitents at the
altar. In all these places there are
men who could, without looking at
the book, recite the sublime words,
as did Gladstone during vacation at
Hawarden, 4 believe in God, the
Father Almighty, Maker of heaven
and earth, and in Jesus Christ and
from the senate and house of repre-
sentatives and the presidential cabi-
net and from the surrounding offices
and committee rooms, if they could
hear, would come many voices re-
spending Amen and amen!
Christian courtesy I especially COM
mend to those who have subordinates.
Almost every person has some one un-
der him. How do you treat that clerk
that servant. that assistant that en-
ploye? Do you accost him in brusque
terms and roughly command him to do
that which you might kindly ask him
to do? The last words that the Duke
of Wellington uttered were, IF you
please" That conqueror in what was
in some respects the greatest battle
ever fought. in his last hours, asked by
replied. IF you please" his last words
an expression of courtesy Beautiful
characteristic in any class. There is
no excuse for boorisbness in any cir
Gle AS complete a gentleman as ever
lived was the man who was unhorsed
on the road to Damascus and beheaded
on the road to Ostia-Paul, the apostle
ized by the way he apoligized to Ana
Mas, the high priest. l know it from
the way he compiimented Felix as a
judge and from the way he greets the
king. Il thank myself, King Agrippa,
because 1 shall answer for myself this
day before thee touching all the things
whereof l am accused of the Jews, es-
pecially because 1 know thee to be ex-
pert in all customs and questions
which are among the Jews" And then
see those words of advice which he
gives: Bear ye one another's bur-
dens;.' .fn honor preferring one an
other;'' ehonor all men,
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