Los Angeles herald., 1906-11-19

barbarians are kind also. The men and
the women who do not profess to love
the Master, and belong not to our
own class in society, are nearly always
kind when we meet them. They are
nearly always thouehtful. They are
nearly always ready to aid and be-
friend Chrlsts messengers. think it
Is due to them to make this fact
known, and IL may encourage work.
ers also to learn that when they la
Dor for Christ In unfamiliar fields
they may find comfort among strang.
ers, as Paul was happily surprised
when he wrote, And the barbarous
people showed us no little Kindness"
BarbarIsns Kind
The barbarians, or those who do not
belong to the "household of faith"
will be kind TO Christ's messengers in
reference to their temporal wants. If.
In an emergency, you are hungry, they
Will feed you; IL you are naked they
will clothe you. If you are ship
wrecked, as Paul was among the rocks
of Melta, they will rush out into the
surf and help you land. IL you are
homeless, they will invite you to sit
by their firesides. 1t Is q mistaken
idea to suppose that all the gentleness
and all the kindnesses and all the help
fulness Of life are to be found only
among the followers and the disciples
of the 'Lowly Nazarene." 1 may seem
to be making a sweeping statement,
but. from personal experience can
affirm that IL man, either afoot or
In wagon, will break loose from the
great, congested cities and travel
through the country, ninety-nine people
out of every hundred whom he meets
upon the road will greet him with a
smile. and will be willing to go out Of
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their power so to do. OF course,
large per cent of these people will not
be members of the Christian churches;
but they all, with very few exceptions
will be kind to him, as the barbariaps
were kind to Paul, when shipwrecked
upon the Melita shoals.
The universal kindness OF the COM
mon people was quantity illustrated
some years ago by the late Mayor Nc
Lane Of Baltimore, who told this story
| of a well-known railroad man. A
humble employe of the road called
upon this man and asked for q pass
to certain point. "You have been
working for us for some time, have you
| not?" YES" answered the employe.
you have always been paid regular
| ly?" Eyes. sir" "Well, now, sup
| Would you have the nerve to ask this
farmer to harness up his horses and
drive you a long distance into the
country?" mo" answered the man,
L would not. But If the farmer had
his horses already harnessed and was
| going my way, there Is not farmer
living who would refuse to give me q
| lift" The man knew the characters
tics Of the class. They are nearly al
ways willing to help their neighbors.
To use the parlance Of the railroad en-
| ploye, they are ready to give each 9TH
er lift" Almost every man who
wears rough clothes is at heart kind
man. Almost every woman who tolls
for her daily bread is generally kind
woman. The heart of the poor is a
| generous heart. 1t Is loving, gentle,
a helpful heart. When we go forth
into Christian work among the COM
mon people, we will be happily sur
| prised to find that most people are
| kindly disposed, no matter where we
may go. even as the barbarians of
Melita went out of their way to care
for the helpless passengers and crew
| of the Alexandria corn ship.
Touching Incident
Not only is the heart of the common
| people kind, but the heart of the So
called better social classes also is kind
iy; Gen. W. T. Sherman told beau
tiful incident of this fact. A short
time before his death he revisited the
famous battlefields Of his Georgia
campaign. There was one battlefield
so changed that he could not identify
: it. So he went to the nearest house
and a beautiful, white-haired old lady
| came to the door. She said, "Oh, yes;
! this is the place where the battle was
! fought" Then she invited him in and
described how the field looked thirty
years before. Every part about 1t was
perfectly clear to her. She pictured
the beautiful southern mansion which
was once in the center of that field,
about which the two armies fought for
so long a time. Then Gen. Sherman
said, "Ah, now I remember It well.
And I remember how the soldiers got
beyond our control at that time and
| needlessly burned that mansion, and
left 1t a smouldering heap of ruins" :"
| Then he said, Madam, did you live
near here at that time? Do you re-
member the old house?" The lady
quietly replied. Eyes, General it was
buke did she utter. Not one word Of
reproach came from her lips. During
| all that conversation she uttered not
one word which might wound the
feelings of the northern military chief
tain. In leaving, Cen. Sherman lifted
his hat as he said, Madam, you are
| the best bred woman ever met" But
though Gen. Sherman may have thus
spoken to the southern lady, there are
thousands and tens OF thousands of
| such men and women as she was No
matter among what social classes the
Christian worker may go, he will find
that everywhere the human heart is
beating with gentleness and kindness.
Everywhere people will go out of their
way to do him a favor. as the bar
barians c., red for Paul and the ship
wrecked crew struggling to land from
the Alexandria corn ship.
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