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W"ffW',WW iwm v. siw.. :r h w r . A . tW- f 11 CAPITAL CITY COURIER. SATURDAY SEP! EMBER i9f 1891. li. ". "rntfTrjr--Yri!em?it-r 1- m K fo' t , w & r. v tVv &,v iw w r. V tt W. ' i TUKPOWKUUl'KhNDNESS LESSONS FROM PAUL'S RECEPTION ON THE ISLAND OF MELITA. ffti tUrharotin I'mplo l lh UUml Vff a Yet Unrtrriiilrl) nml Hit llix Prompt ings of Nature llulril Tlirm Klmlnais Hn;nM''liiwr of I Intl'n limilni. UtlOMKLYN, Sept, 111. llrooklyn Taber naclu today contained many httmiKorti on their way home from tho watering places nd foreign Inndi. Many of tlio members absent from tliu city during the summer wtro In their placet. Tlio church building nml tlir organ, which httvo been almost continually under brush nml hammer since the dedication Inst spring, lira tiovr itlKiut completed. Thu sermons today were full of congratulation iintl wore attended by tho usual throngs. Dr. 't'almago's morn Inn sermon wns on "Kindness," from tha text, Acts xxvlll, 12' "Thu barbarous people bowed u no little, kindness." My text putJi tut on thu Island of Malta, another namo for k Mnlltit This Island, which has always liven uu Important com mercial center, hulouglugnl different times to I'hwulcln, to Oreeco, to llomu, to Am bin, to Spnln, to Primer, now belong to England. The area of thu Manil Is about one hundred square miles. It l In the Mediterranean yea, nml of such clarity of tmosphcru that Mount Kinn, one hundred ml thlity miles away, can lm distinctly ocn. The Island Is gloriously mumorablu, becnuso tho Knight of Malta for it long while ruled there, but most famous bo cause of tho apostolic shipwreck. The bestormed vessel on which Pnul nllcd hnd "laid to" on tho starboard tack, ml tho wind wo blowing cast-northeast, ud the veMcl drifting probnbly it mile ml it half nu hour ere she struck nt what U now called "St. Pnul's bay. Practical sailors havo taken up the lllblo account ud decided boyoud controversy tho place of tho shipwreck. Uut tho Inland which has so rough it coast is for tho most part a garden. ltlchest fruit and a profusion of honey characterised it In Pnul's time as well as now. Tho finest oranges, (Ik and olives grow there. When Paul and hut comrades crawled up on the bench, satur ated with salt water and hungry from long abstinence from food and chilled to the bone, the Islanders, though called bar barians because they could not speak Greek, opened their doors to tha ship wrecked unfortunates. Everything had gono to the bottom of the deep, and the barefooted, bareheaded apostle and ship's crow were In n condition to .appreciate hospitality. About twenty live such men it few seasons ago I found in tho II fo statlou near Easthampton, Long Island. They bad got nshoro in the night from tho sea, und not a hat nor shoo had they left. They found out, na Paul and his fellow voyagers fouud out, that tho sen If tpo roughest of all robbers. My text finds the ship's crew ashore on Malta, and around a hot Ore drying Uieinielvos, nud with tha best provision tho (slanders can offer them. Ana they go into government quarters tor three days to recuperate, Publlus. the TJl$r, Inviting tncra, although he had se vere sickness tn tho homo at that time his father down with dysentery and typhoid fever. Yea, for three months they staid An tha tataml wAtjitilmf Inr a atitn nn.fl nnt ttng the hospitalities of the islanders to a Three days of every week the people were Mveretest. But they endured the test satla- admitted to theso gardens, and a young Ills soul llil InllnlU sweetness of dlspo iltlnn It rer'Miii will whelm ever) thing. TIIK kVIU. OK IU.VKNUKKUL H;hUNO. Hut If vou are witltlnu and hoping for some one to lie bankrupted or expoxed or discomfited, or In any way overthrown, then klndnM has not taken possession of jour nature. You arc wrecked on a Malta where there are no orange. You ate en tertaining n guest so unlike kindness that klnducNi will not coniu and dwell under the tuimo roof. The mntt cxhaufttlng and unhenllhy and ruinous feeling on earth Is a revengeful spirit or retaliating plrlt, n 1 know by experlenco, for I hitvu tried It tho or ten minutes at n tlma When mihio moan thing has been dnno moor said about me I have felt "I will pay him In hit own coin. I will show him up. Tho ingratel The trnltorl Tho llnrl Tho vlllalnl" Hut live or ten minutes of thu feeling hai been mi unnerving ami exhausting that I have abandoned It, and I ciunntun ilerManil how peoplu can go about tortur ing thumnelven live or ten or twenty years, trying to get uveu with somebody Tlio only way you will over triumph over your enemlcft Is by forgiving them nud wishing them all good and no evil. As mnlevo loiico Is thu most uneasy and prnlltlefts and dangerous feeling, kimlucxs is tho moit healthful and delightful. And this l.s not nn attraction, As I hnvo tried it little of the retaliation, so 1 liavu tried it littlu of the forgiving. I do not want to leavo this world until I have taken vougcancu upon every mnu that ever did mu n wrong by doing him n kind lie." In most of stichcnscfl I havo already miceeetled, but there arc it fuw miillgunnu whom i am yet pursuing, nml 1 shall not becoutout until I hnvo In somo wlau helped them or benefited them or blessed them. lA'tunnll prny for this spirit of kindness. It will settlo a thousand questions. It will change tho phase of everything. It will mellow through and through our entire nature. It will transform a Ilfetlmo. It Is not it feeling gotton up for occasions, but perennial. . That is tho reason I llko petunias better than morning glories. They look very much alike, and If I should put in your hand a petunia and a morning glory you could hardly tell which Is tho petunia and which thu morning glory; but thu morning glory blooms only a few hours and then shut up for the day, wlillo tho potuuln Is in its widespread a glow at twulvo o'clock t noon and six o'clock in tho evening as at sunrise. And this graco of kindness Is not spasmodic, Is not intermittent, Is not for it little while, but It Irradiates tho whole nature, all through and clear on till tho sunset of our earthly existence. Klndncssl I nm resolved to get It, Are you resolved to get ItP It docs not coniu by haphazard, but through culture under tho divine help. Thistles grow without cul ture. Rocky mountain sage grass grows without culture. Mullen stalks grow without culture. Out that great red rose In tho conservatory, Its leaves packed on leaves, deep dyed as though it had been obliged to fight for its beauty and it were till reeking with the carnage of the battle, that rose needed to lo cultured, and through long years IU floral ancestors wero cultured. O Ood, Implant klndess In nil our ouls. and then givo us grace to watch. ttjto enrich it. to develop hi a The King of Prussia bad presented to him by tho empress of Russia the root of a rare (lower, and It was put In the royal gardens on an Island, and tho bend gar dener, Ilerr Fintclmann, was told to watch it. And one day It put forth its glory. ' thlngl Say the kli.cj thlugl I admit that this Is easier for some temperaments than for others. Some are Uiru pesslmlsU, and soine are Ixirn optimists, ami that demon strate Itselfall through everything. It Is a cloudy morning, You meet n pessimist and you snv, " lint weather toilayf" Ho answers, "It's going to storm," and urn hrvlla under nrni and it waterproof over coat show that lie Is honest In that utter ) nlico. On the same block, a minute after, you meet nu nptlmlft, and you say, "What , weather todayr'" "flood weather; this Is ' only a fog mid will soon scatter" The absence of uinliiella and absence of water- ' proof overcoat show It In an holiest utter iinco On your way "t noon to luncheon you meet nu optimlstlo merchant and jou say, "What do ) on think of thu commercial prospect!1" nml ho smjs "Glorious. (Ireat crop must bring great business. Wo are going to liaw'sncli nu autumn and ulntti the young man to ban Hit, and thu whit haired attorney Is hunting up previous de cisions and making out a brief for the boy, Down at thu bank I heard yesterday a note Mas due, and thu young merchant could not meet It, and an old merchant went In and gut for him three mouth' ex tension, which for the young merchant Is the difference U-tween bankruptcy nud sncifss In business Ami In our street Is an artist who had a lluu picture of the 'Rapldsof N'lagara,' and hu could uotsull It, and his family weru Hiiirvrlug, and they themselves weru In tho rapids; nml a lady heard of It and said, 'I do not need the picture, but for thu encouragement of art and helping you out of your distress I will take It,' nud on thu drawing room wall are thu 'Rapldsof Niagara.' TIIK AOK OF IIKI.rFUl.NK8S. "Do you know that a strange thing ha taken plate in the pulpit and all thu old minister are helping thu young ministers, OIL HEATERS Hot Air Furnaces, of prosperity ms we hate never s?cu " On1 and all the old doctors are helping the your way back to your store you meetn pessimistic merchant "Whatdoyou think of the comuienlal prospect)" you ask. I Ami he answers: "Well, I don't know. So much grain will snrfi'lulie country. Farm er have more bushel but lex price, ami ' thegraln gambler will gel their list In. I There Is the McKiiiley hill, and thu hay ' crop Is short In some places, ami In thu ' southern part of Wisconsin they had n j hailstorm, and our business I a dull a It i ever was." You will llml thu same dllTer-1 cure In Judgment of character A man cl good reputation Is assailed ami charged with some e II deed At Uiu first story t lit pessimist will liclluvu III guilt. "The paper said so, nud that's enough. Down with , Mini" OPTIMIST AND PESSIMIST. The optimist will sayt "1 don't believe a word of It. i don't think that a man that ha been a useful nud seemingly honest i for twenty years could liavu got olT the track llku that. There are two sides to tills story, and I will wait to hear thu othui . sldu Iwfore 1 condemn him." My hearer, I It you aru by nature it pessimist, make n' special effort by the grace of God to extlr- j pate tho dolorous and thu hypercritical from your disposition. Ilelluvu notliltiH I ngainst anybody until tho wrong Is cstab-1 lished by at least two witnesses of luteg-' rity. And if guilt lie proved, find out the extenuating circumstances if thcro are. any. And then commit to memory so that you ' can quote for yourself andUotu for other that exquisite thirteenth chapter of First Corinthians about charity that suffers lotfft and Is kind, and bopeth nil things I I .1. ..II .1.1 tl" l. ..!-.. r"Y.... "..:. UV ..'.. '.' "nrlng It Is retdy for l.m.uu mi i.rmt i,jr aiiuiu gum. , W!mt Is tlifl miittrrr It factortly, and It Is recorded for all the ages of time and eternity to read and hear In regard to the Inhabitant of Malta, "Tha barbarous people showed us no little kind oesa," BIDLK EXAUFLES Or KINDNESS. Klndnessl What a great won! that Is. It would take a reed as long as that which the apocalyptio angel used to measure heaven to tell tho length, tho breadth, tha height of that rauulllcent won). It Is a favorite niblo word, and It Is early launched In tho book of Genesis, caught up in the book of Joshua, embraced tn tho book of Ruth, sworn by In the book of Samuel, crowned In tho book of Psalms, and en throned In many places in thu Now Testa ment. Klndnessl A word uo mora gentle than mighty. I expect It will wrestlo mo down before I get through with It, It is strong enough to throw an archangel. Out It will be well for us to stand around It, and warm ourselves by Its glow ns Paul and his fellow voyagers stood around the fire on the Island of Malta, where the Mal tese made themselves Immortal iu my text by the way they trcnted these victims of the ea. "The barbarous people showed us no llttlo kindness." Klndnessl All definitions of that multi potent word break down half way. You ay It Is clemency, benignity, generosity; It to made. up of good wishes, it Is an expres sion of beneficence. It is a contribution to the happiness of others. Some one elso ayat "Why, I can glvo you n definition of kindness: It Is sunshine of tho soul, it is affection perennial, It la a crowning grace, it is the combination of all graces, It Is compassion, it Is the perfection of gentle manliness and womanliness." Are you all through? You have made a dead fail ure in your definition. It cannot bo de fined. But wo all know what It Is, for we all felt Its power. Somo of you may have felt It as Paul tolt It, on some coast of rock as the ship wont to pieces, but morn of us have again ami agitlu in some awful tress of life, had cither from earth or heaven hands stretched out, which "bowed us no little kindness." Then Is klndneas of disposition, kind ness of word, kindness of act, and there Is Jesus Christ, the Impersonation of all of them. Klndnessl You cannot affect it, you cannot play It as a part, yon caunot enact it, you cannot dramatize It, By the grace of God you must have It inside you, an everlasting summer, or rather a com bination of June and October, the geniali ty of the one and the tonloof the other. It cannot dwell with arrogance or spite or revenge or malevolence. At its first ap pearance in the soul all theso Amalekltes i and Gerglshltes and Illttltea and Jebusitcs must quit, and quit forever. Kindness wishes everybody well, every man well, evory woman well, every child well, every bird well, every horse well, very dog well, every cat well. Give this plrit full swing, and you would have no more need of societies for prevention of cruelty to aulmals, no more need of pro tective sewing woman's association, and it wonld dull every sword until it would not ut skin deep, and unwheel every battery till it could not roll, and make gunpowder of no more uso In the world except for rock blasting or pyrotechnic celebration. Kindness Is a spirit divinely implanted, and iu auswer to prayer, nud then to be sedulously cultivated until it fills all the nature wltb a perfume richer nnd more pungent than mignonette, and, as if you nut a tuft of that aromatic beauty behind tha clock on the mantel or iu some corner where nobody cau see It, you find people walking about your room looking tills way and tbut, and you ask them, "What a you looking fori" And they answer, "Where is that flowerf" So If one baa 4a man. nrobably not realising what a wrong thing be was doing, plucked this flower and put It In his buttonhole, and the gat dencr arrested hlmns ho was crossing at tho ferry, and asked tho king to throw open uo more his gardens to the public. The king rcpliedi "Shall I deny the thousands of good peoplu of my country the privilege of seeing this garden because ouo visitor has dona wrong? No, let them come and see the beautiful grounds." And when thu gardcuer wished to glvu tho king thu name of thu offender who had taken tho royal llower, ho said, "o, my memory Is very tenacious and I do not want to havo in my mind tho name of the offender, lest it should hinder me granting him a favor somo other time." Now, I want you to know that kindness Is a royal flower, and blessed bo God, thu King of mercy nnd graco, that by a divine gift and uot by nurlolulng, wo may pluck this royal flower and not wear It on tho otttsldo of our unture, but wear It In our soul and wear It forever, Its radiance nud aroma not more wonderful for time than wbnderful for eternity "KIND WORDS CAN NEVEK DIE." Still further, I must speak of kindness of word. When you meet any one do you say u pleasant thing or an unpleasant? Da you tell him of ngreentilo tuiugs you nave heard about him, or the disagreeable? When he leaves you does he feel better or does ho feel worse? Oh, the power of the tongue for the production of happiness or misery! Ouo would think from thu way thu tongue- Is caged iu we might taku tho hint that It has u dangerous power. First, It Is chained to the back of tho mouth by strong muscles. Then It Is surrounded by tho teeth of tho lower Jaw, ko many Ivory bars, and then by the teeth of tho upper jaw, more Ivory bars. Then outsldo of nil are tho two lips with tho power of com pression nnd arrest, nnd yet notwithstand ing these four Imprisonment or limita tions, how many tako uo hint in regard to tho danucrous power of tho tongue, and the results nro laceration, aerification and damnation. There are those- if they kjiow a good thing about you nnd a bad thing, will men tion the bad thing and uct as though they had never heard the good thing. Now there are two sides to almost every one's character, and wo havo the choice of over ..I..,,,. ,....,. I.. ,...., ..,. . 1. I I, . .. H . I l .!.... I nuuiii irifjtit! j nu citii ilium ui, uuu 11 Lucre i , , iju iiuiuiHK l;iiimi, int'ii Hamuli mu ennui ui musclo on the back end of your tongue, I nnd keep thu ivory bars of teeth on the lower Jaw and thu Ivory bars of teeth on the upper jaw locked and the gnto of your lips I tightly closed and your tongue shut up. What it placu Brooklyn would be to live In, and all tho other cities and neighbor-1 hoods to live In, if charity dominutedl i What If all tho young nnd old gosslpers I weredendl The 1ird hasten tholr funerals! What If tlttle-tnttloand whispering wero out of fashion! What it In ciphering out the value of other people's character, tn our moral arithmetic, wo stuck to addition Instead of subtraction! Klndnessl Let us morning, noon and night prny for it until wo get It, When you can speak n good word for some one speak It. If you can conscientiously glvu letter of commenda tion, give it. Watch for opportunities for doing good fifty years after you are dead. All my life has been affected by thu let ter of Introduction that the Rev. Dr. Van Vrankcu, of New Brunswick Theological seminary, wrote for me, a boy under hlm.l when I was seeking n settlement In which to preach the Gospel. Tho letter gave mu my first pulpit. Dr. Van Vrnukcn has been dead more than thirty years, yet i feel tho touch of that magnificent old pro fessor. Strnngu seiibatlon was It when 1 1 received a kind message from Rev. Thomas j Guard, of Baltimore, tho great Methodist orator, six weeks after his death. By way of thu eternal world? Oh, no, by way of . this world I did uot meet tho friend to whom he gnvo tho mesago until nearly two months after Thomas Guard had as cended. So you can start a word about young doctors, and the farmer aru nsdnt lug encli other In gathering thu harvest, ami for that farmer who I lck thu neigh' bors have made a 'lice,' as tliey call It, and tliuy have all turned In to help him get his crops Into the garner? And tliey tell ma that the older and more skillful reporters who have permanent positions on papers aru helping the young fellows who me Jut beginning to try and don't know exactly how to do It. And after a few erasiirts and Interpolations on thu reporter' pad they say: 'Now hero Is n readable account of that tragedy; hand It In nml I am sure the managing editor will taku It.' "And I heard this morning of a poor old man whosu three children weru In hot do bate as to who should take euro of him In his declining days. Tho oldest sou declared It wns his right becnusu he was thu oldest, and thu youngest sou said it wns his right because he was thu youngest, nud Mary snlil it was her right because she beltei understood father's vertigo and rheuma tism and poor spell and kuuw letter how to nurse him, and thu only way thu dilll culty could be settled was by theold man's promise that hu would divide thu year into three parts, and spend it third of his time with each one of them. "Ami neighboring stores in tho same line of goods on tho same block arc acting kind ly to each other, und when one I a little short of n certain kind of goods his neigh bor says, 'I will help you until you can ro plenlsb your shelves.' It seems to me that those word of Isaiah are being fulfilled when he says, 'Thu carpenter encouraged thu goldsmith and ho that smooths with I tho hammer, him that smote tho anvil, the soldering.' seems to mo our WssVBaV .b9 world is picking up. Why, tho mil lennium must Ih coming in. Kindness has gotten tho victory." My hearers, yon know nnd I know we aro far from that state of things. But why not inaugurate n new dispensation of ge niality. If wo cannot yet have a millennium on n large scale, let us havo It on n small scale, nnd umlerourowu vestments. Klnd nessl If this world Is over brought to God that Is tho t hitig that will do It. You can not fret the world up although you may fret thu world down. You cannot scold It Into excellence or reformation or godliness. FABLE OF TUP. WINDS. Tho east wind nnd tho west wind wero one tiny talking with ench other, nnd tho east wind said to tho west wind: "Don't ?ou wish you had my power? Why, when start they hall me by storm signals all along tho coast. I can twist off n ship's mast as easily as a cow's hoof cracks an aider. With ouo sweep of my wing I have strewn tho coast from Newfoundland to Key West with parted ship timber. I can lift nnd have lifted tho Atlantic ocean. I nm the terror of nil Invalidism, and to fight mo bnck fotests must bo cut down for fires, nnd the mines of continents are called on to teed tho furnaces. Under my breath tho nations crouch Into sepulchres. Don't you wish you hnd my power?" said the east wind. The west wind mado no answer, but started on Its mission, coming somewhere out of tho rosy bowers of tho sky, nnd nil the rivers nnd Inkes and seas smiled at Its coming. Tho gardens bloomed, nnd the orchards ripened, and tho wheat fields turned their sliver Into gold, nnd health somo one 7..A."... u "'.." .r." I.-"? clnnnedlts hands, nml Joy shouted from "roTl ngitthu fSnml lm h 'o .IU tops nml tl. nation, lifted their been sung at your obsequies. Klndnessl foreheads li o ho llg ht.ur. d the earth had Why. If fifty men nil aglow with It should , K" i1' , ,T L SL?", walk throuuh thu lost world, methlnks they would almost abolish perdition. TOUCIIINO ANECDOTE OK A1UIAIIAM LINCOLN. Furthermore, there Is kindness of action. That Is what Joseph showed to his out rageous brother. That Is what David showed to MephlboHheth for his father Jonathan's sake. That Is what Oneslphor us showed to Paul In the Roman peniten tiary That I what William Cowper recognized when he said hu would not trust a mnn who would with his foot need lessly crush a worm. That is what our assassinated President Lincoln demon them for tho earth, and tho warmth and the sparkle, nnd the gladness, and tho foli age, and the flowers and thu fruits, nnd thu benuty, nnd the life, were the only an swer tho west wind mnde to tho Insolence of thu east wind's Interrogation. Kindness to nil! Surely It ought not to be a illfllcult graco to culture when we see towering above tho centuries such an ex ample that one glimpse ought to melt and transform all nations Kindness brought our Lord from heaven. Kindness to mis creants, kindness to persecutor, kindness to thu crippled and the blind, anil the cat- . when his prlvatoUcretary found I AlZT 2 '"li htm In tho Capitol grounds trying to get a bird luck to thu nest from wlilcli tt Had fallen, nnd which quality tho illustrious man exhibited years before, when having with somo lawyers in tho carriage on the way to court passed on tho road a swlno fast in thu ml re, after awhile cried to his horses, "Hoi" and said to tho gentlemen, "I must go back and help that hog out of tho mire." And ho did go bnck and put on solid ground that most uninteresting quadruped. That wns the spirit that was manifested by my departed friend, Honorable Alexan der II. Stephens, of Georgia (and lovelier man never exchanged earth for heaven), when at Washington. A senator's wife who told my wlfo of the circumstances, aid to him, "Mr. Stephens, como and see mv dead canary bird." And ho answered, "No, I could not look at tho poor thing uauung tuo virtue or tue vice. u can .,,,., ...,,.. That Is the snlrit that greet Paul aud the ship's crew ns they Gfftnt ho wn nt thu gurremh.r t COln1 uEm i M. . 1 1 Appomattox hu said to General Lee, "As words: "What a sorry looking set you nrel , nf , Kn,lllpra nr fnrim.rfl Hlui Wlll How little of navigation you must know . r,r,i,Il ,i ,.iiPtn r,iiKtliBprot to keep their families from suffering next to run on these rocks I uiun't you know better than to put out on the Mediterra nean this wintry month? It was not much of a ship anyhow, or it would not have gone '.o pieces so soon as that. Well, what do yo'i want? We have hard enough work to make a living for ourselves, without having thrust on us two hundred and seventy-six ragamuffins." Not so said the Mnltese. I think they said; "Come inl Sit down by the fire and warm yourselves I Glad that you all got , off with your lives. Mako yourselves at borne. You are welcome to all we have until some ship comes Iu sight and you re sume your voyage. Here, let me put a bandage on your forehead, for that Is an ugly garb you got from the floating tim bers, and here is a man with a broken arm. We wlll have a doctor come to attend to this fracture." Aud though for three months the kindness went on, we have but little more thun this brief record, "The barbarous people showed us uo little kind uess." Ohl say the cordial tblngl Say the use ful thlngl Bay the hospitable thlngl Say tho helpful thlngl Say the Christlllw winter, let each Confederate who can claim a horse or a mule take It along with him." That is the spirit which, last night, teu thousand mothers showed to their sick children coming to givo tho drink at tho twentieth call as cheerfully and ns tenderly as nt the first call. Suppose all this assemblage and all to whom these words shall como by printer's, type, should resolvu to make kindness nu overarching, nmlerglrdlng and nil pervad ing principle of their life, nud then enrry out thu resolution why, In six mouths the whole earth would feel Ij People would say: 'What is tho matter? It seems to me that thu world Is getting to bu a lietter place to live In. Why, life after all is worth living Why, tberu Is Shylock, my neighbor, has withdrawn his lawsuit of foreclosure against that man, and liecnuse he has had so much sickness Iu hi family he is golug to have the house for one year rent free. Theieisan old lawyer iu that vouuu lawyer's office, nnd do you know what he has gone In there for? Why, be is helping fix up a case which is too big for J of nud tho demoniacal characterized him all the way, nnd on tho cross, kindness to the ImndltH suffering on tho side of him, nnd kindness to the executioners while yet tliev nushed the spear, and hammered tho spikes, and howled thu blasphemies. All tho stories of the John Howards nnd tho Florenro Nightingales aud the Grnco Darlings and the Ida Lewises palo before this trnhscendnnt example of him whoso birth nnd lifo nud death aro the greatest story thnt tho world ever henrd, nnd tho t heme of tho mightiest hosnnnn that heaven ever lifted. Yea, tho very kindness thnt allowed both hands to bo nailed to tho hori zontal timber of tho cross with that cruel thump! thump! now stretches down from the skies those samo hands filled with balm for all our wounds, forgiveness for all our crimes: rescuo for all our serfdoms. Ami uhlle we take this matchless kind ness from God, may It be found that we hnvo uttered our last bitter word, written our last cutting paragraph, done our last retaliatory action, felt our last revengeful heart throb. And it would not be u bad epitaph for any of us if by tho graco of God from this time forth we lived such beneficent lives that tho tombstone's chisel could appropriately cut upon the plain slab that marks our gravo a suggestion from thu text, "Ho shewed us no little kindness." But not until the last child of God has got ashore from tho earthly storms that drove him on the rocks llko Mediterranean Euroclydons, uot uutll all tho thrones of heaven aro mounted, aud all tho conquerors crowned, aud all the harps and trumpets aud organs of heaven aru thrummed or bloWu or sounded, and the ransomed of all climes and ages aro In full chorus uudcr the Jubilant swing of angelic baton, and we shall for thousands of years hove seen thu river from under the throne rolling Into the "sea of glass mingled with lire," nud this world we now Inhabit shall be bo far In the ;v.tt ht tnJy u stretch of celes tial memory can recall that It ever existed at all, not until then will we understand what Nehemlnb culls "the great kindness," and David culls "tho marvelous kindness," and Isaiah calls "theeverlastlug kindness" Godt RUDGE & MORRIS, 1122 N STREET. "NOT WORTH $5.00." 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