The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-08-21

no speech; but the power 10 feel so
vividly. the feeling flows straight into
another's SOIL in very gulf stream OF
love.
our souls set close and silently within.
And their own web from their own en-
trails spin.
And when eyes meet far of. and sense
is such
That. spiderlike. we feel the tenderest
touch" ALLIE SHARPE BALCH.
Ny duty to my Maker,
And to my fellow-man,
Is blended IN a sympathy
To help Just all can
The poor downtrodden creatures
OF every shore or shade:
God grant I shall not wanting be
When in the balance weighed.
What a privilege! Aye. cen a partner
ship with God. TO bend thine ear TO the
supplicaton Of the sorrowing. The duty
Of it is precious privilege most graft
Tying 70 any true man, more especially
an optimist; he feels in going out Of his
way 10 a distressed brother creature
he but exercises a right born OF fellow
interest and personal earnestness. NIL
lions profess Christianity, thousands
prate Of charity. and hundreds pray
openly for the "outpouring Of the Holy
Spirit among all people, everywhere" but
few there be that reach the sublime
point where It becomes a privilege 70
lend a hand.
CHARLES ALBERT BREwToN.
Sympathy is a spiritual endowment. and
a bond uniting man not only with his
fellow creatures, but with the brute ere
alton as well.
! sympathy is rare charity dispensing
pity like wine and JOY like sunshine II
Is an ingrauating quality and never OF,
tends a sufferer. bereaved or ashamed
| IT is delicate sense making the young
and old equals in glee or pain.
A sympathetic nature is a wondrous
posession-subtle. charmful-and the duty
Of such a possession, to self and other
cannot be too prominently featured in ouI
optimistic teachings.
Mrs E. d. FRANK.
The bounden duty OF sympathy Is e
radiate comfort and cheer. We must JOY
with the glad Of heart, and sorrow with
those whose souls are buried in grief
There can be no set rules for the dis
pensing OF this grand. heroic Christian
virtue. Or its applications are as varied
as the emotions Of human hearts arr
different: but we should all be. preemi
nently, associates In the apostolate OF
sympathetic speech. AS the poet says:
"a kindly word and a tender tone
Only to God is their virtue known,
They can lift from the dust the abjec
head.
They can turn a foe to a friend in
stead;
The heart, close barred with passion and
pride,
VIM fling at their knock its portals wide
And the hate that blights and the scorr
that sears
VIII melt in the fountain of chndlik,
tears.
What ice-bound griefs have oft beer
broken.
What rivers OF love have oft beer
stirred,
BY a single word m kindness spoken,
By only a gentle word"
NJ. JOSEPH RYAN.
The one who feels and accepts the dut,
Of sympathy is not the one with self
satisfied mien. whom we meet too often
inflated with conceit. thumbs thrust in
10 his vest pockets. walking away from
! suffering. muttering the words carrying
/ that most subtle of stings; Il told YOU
So" But it is the type who places upo1
stings Of error. disappointment, and grie
| her blessing of balm"-sympathy Sh.
tactfully merges self into you" pos
sessing, IT would seem, the ability o.
absorbing, temporarily into her very be
ing, the suffering which tears at you
heart strings. feeling life lacking in pur
pose.
| If no brothers sorrow she can lighter
BY daily sympathy and gentle tone.
H. Winslow.
obeying the call OF duty such a on,