THE CENTRE 10, 15866, A KIND WORD. It 18 a Powerful Weapon Against | Bvil Doing. 1 | Sarcasm and Retort Fan the Flame of Bit- | torness, but a Soft Answer Turneth Away Wrath-—We Cannot Chase Down Slander, Wo Must Live It Down, Ie his latest Washington sermon Dr. Talmage preached the doctrine of kindness and urged his hearers to fol- low in the footsteps of Christ and for | give their enemies. His text was Proverbs 25: 15: “A soft tongue break- eth the bone." When Solomon said this he drove a whole volume into one phrase. You, of course, will not be so silly as to take the words of the text in a literal sense. They simply mean to set forth the fact that there is a tremendous power in a kind word. Although it may seem to be very insignificant, ita force is indescribable and illlmitable. Pungent and all-conquering utterance: “A soft tongue breaketh the bone.” If 1 had tinte I would show you kindness as a of defense, as a means of usefulness, kindness as a means of domestic harmony, kindness as best employed by governments for the taming and curing of criminals, and kindness as best adapted for the settling and adjusting of international quarrel; but I shall eall your attention only to two of these thoughts, And 48 © mea st, I speak to you of kindae i Almost every man, in the nm his upon ax life, is set assaulted our motives are | »d or your religious or po- |S ave chas- »t him in will n never of inflict ing nt upon him then tier na- y the him and the b art. e good men resolved They began to ex- Mionlt SARC ies; they began other's faults, and lo! quarrel was settled; school Presbyterian d school Presbyterian The byterian order, welded y little hammer, a Chris one different kick you put you mistaken; o the con year you act the awhile the ani ne Aft nels YOu go over (rive ht lone ) ong me nd eterni- it afford | you have let us set. great shaking s for all the rest of higher before his admiration is apology. But if you » not conquered him in that way, at any rate you have won the applause { your own conscience, the high esti mation of good men, and the honor of your Lord who died for his armed ene hand AVY Fisen on at win on which mies, ut,” yoa say, “what are we to de when slanders assault us, and there come acrimonious sayings all around about us, and we are abused and spit gpou?’ My reply is: Do not go and at- tempt to chase down the slanderers. Lies are prolific, and while you are killing one, 50 are born. All your demonstrations of indignation only gxhaust yourself. You might as well, on some summer night when the swarms of insects are coming up from the meadows and disturbing you and Alsturbing your family, bring up some great “swamp angel,” like that which thundered over Charleston, and try to shoot them down. Tho game Is too small for the gun Hut what, then, ave you to do with the abuses that come upon you in life? You are to live them down! Isawa farmer go out and got hack & swarm of bees that had wandered off from the hive. As he moved amid them they buzzed around lls head, and buzzed around his bands, and buzzed around ils feet. If ho hd killed one of thet vey would have stung him to death. Hut he moved in their midst in perfect placldity until he had swarm of wandering bees. And so | juve seen men moving amid the annoy- ances, and the vexations, and the assaults of life tian deliberation that all the buz zing around their souls amounted to nothing. They conquered them, and, above all, they conquered themsdlves ‘Oh,” you say, ‘that's a theory to preach on a hot it won't work.” It will has worked. 1 believe it Christiun grace we wi You known there fruits which we gather June, and others in July, and others in August, and others in September, and still others in October; and I have to admit that this grace of Christian for- giveness is about the last fruit of the Christian soul. We hear a great deal about the bitter tongue, and the sarcas- tic tongue, and the quick tongue, and the stinging tongue; but we know very little about ‘the soft tongue that break- eth the bone.” Weread Hubibras, and Sterne, and Dean Swift, and the other apostles of acrimony, but give litt time to studying the example of Him who was reviled, and yet reviled not again, Oh that the Lord, by His spirit, would endow all with ‘the soft tongue that breaketh the bone,” I pass now to the other thought that I desire to present, and that is kind ness as a means of In al communities you find sceptical me Through early education, | the tian people, or through prying curios future there ple who bec gious things ver good but work It is the last ) a Ys n are in it us usefulness or th r maltreatment of professed ( hrise about t world, great many cal In reli 4 t he peo ADC 8 How shal hem God sary capture or ment and sare: ret singie hristian { books ing they have already noticed that brought when sceptical are the use up all great bluster, but Part of the sea is placid yn, and the It ox embraces rise. It It of all the continents begins to water mark headlands nes up to the submerges the It is against gre bend the heart throb of one world hea throb of another And 1 have to your storms of y rouse up the tell al nature, nothing i Fy THOWE the ness and to God * Po on 4 rat aeatinic We 1 the prayer of a child f nis Heaver eternal wells he cannot answer {it What l the reclamation of the oj Did you ever know a drunkard to b saved through the drunkard? Your mimicry of the stag gering step, and the thick tongue, the disgusting hiccough, only maddens his brain. But if you com to him in iness and sympathy; you show him that you appreciate the : depraved , ti of have said is just as true in MOLY Vicious caricature of a and worse kin awful grip of a you ] thousa HOOKS persuade im had dination 1 ne ft be SOU. his, hs shit 4 $ High 5 ii will seem as were steadying there lag Va. a OX POS te in A good many years ago the streets of dead drunk, his Richmond, face mday st blistering 1 voman passed along, | “Poor handRkere face, and passed on. The 1 said fellow hief and spread it : ian 1 and | ES nd nies, SU {J himself up from his debauve t ok at the handker it was the name of a hiy Christian woman of the city of Rich- He went to her, he thanked her her kindness, and that little deed saved him from this and saved him for the life He was afters the United States; all, he became disciple HY respec tabie mond, for one life, to come, ard attorney general of but, higher than the consecrated of Josus Christ Kind » are se cheap, it Is a wonder we do not use them oftener. There are tens of thousands of people in these cities who are dying for the lack of kind word. There Is a business man who has fought against trouble until he is perfectly exhausted. He is thinking about forgery, about rob» bery, about suleide. Go to that busi. ness man, Tell him that better times that is ords one | are coming, and tell him that you yourself were in a tight business pass, and the Lord delivered you. Tell him to put his trust in God. Tell him that Jesus Christ stands beside every busi ness man in his perplexition. Tell him ol the sweet promises of God's com forting grace. That man Is dylog for the lack of just one kind word. Go tomorrow and utter that one saving, oranipotent, kind word, Here Is a soul that has been swamped in sin. He wants to find the light of the gospel. He feols like a shipwrecked mariner looking ont over the beash, watehing for a sail against the sky. Oh, bear down on him. Teil | to him, that though | great sinner, there is a great Saviour captured the | Teli him that though his | in such calm, Chris | DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA.,, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER him that the Lord waits to be gracious he has been a provided. sins are as scarlet, they shall be as snow; though they are red like erimson, they shall be as wool. That man is dying forever for the lack of one kind word. There used to be sung at a great many of the pianos all through the country a song that has almost died out. 1 wish somebody would start it again in our local circles. There may not have been very exquisite art in the music, but there was a grand and glorious sentiment: Kind words never die, never di Cherished and blessed Oh, that we might in our families and in our churches try the force of kind- ness, You can never drive men, wo- men, or children into the kingdom of God. A March northeaster will bring out more honeysuckles than fretful- ness and scolding will ever bring out Christian grace. I wish that in all our religious work we might be saturated with the spirit of kindness. Missing that, we miss a great deal of useful ness. There is no need of coming out before men and thundering to them the law unless at the same time you preach to them the gospel. The world is dying for lack of kindness. These young people want It just as much as the old. The old people some- times seem to think they monopoly of the rheumatisms, and the neuralgias, and the headaches, and the physical disorders of the world; but I tell you there are no worse heartacl than are felt by of these young peo Do you that much of } by the young? Richelleu at 81; have a some ple. the w Raphael know is done died Gustavus Adolphus died at 88; Innocent 111. came to his mightiest influence 87; Cortez conquered Mexico at 80; 1 John won Leg attorney-general at 24; id 1 noticed org nt ” at ov; 5; Grotius was nave that that th amid all men 8 severest battles and some before 80. sermons Fr meeting ing further 10 ig 1d merchants and mech: the abstractions of religion to bear th iwork bu What dos istered ne of or ‘Anthropology?” You m who has the ple k plaster made out Medical lences s that brain-racke man care for Zwingle's “Doctri Au Original Sin” tine's well go to 1 and put on his sid of Dr. Parr's Jurisprudence a ‘Treatise on ull our others being plain because get the mn i after a v SONE ll parts of a ser mons more AY Sailors’ felt they preach Boston, jack help for their duties tars lines and the forecasties ard weaver preached to the 0; in Oldbam, England, all the men felt they had more grace for the When Dr. South preached to kings and princes and princesses, all the mighty men and who heard him felt preparatic high station wratives working spindles women mn for their Kindness! We all our hearts, « havior. The chief eh Lord was kind England died, leaving h The vod the fat y £ SL ies ur wor aracteristi A gentlema: fortun« son that Ness in ill to two son at home pretended thal absent was dead and sent brother, after and ¢ his part of the proj Judges and jurors were to bo brit the aimed ‘ say that the returned brother and was no son at all, but only The tric] came ot Hale, the j the room years poster thew eourt pride of injustice was a bv He put off his offi rol He put on the gard a miller. He to the village where that trial was to take place. He entered the court room. He somehow got empaneled as one of the jurors. The bribes came around, and the man gave ten pieces of gold to the other jurors, but as this was only a poor miller the briber gave to him only five pleces of gold. A ver dict was brought in rejecting the right of this returned brother. He was t have no share in the inheritance “Hold! my Lord,” sald the miller “Hold! we are not all agreed on this verdict. These other men have re ceived ten pleces of gold in bribery und I have received only five.” “Who are you? Where do you come from?” sald the judge on the bench. The response was: “I am from Westminster Hall; my name is Matthew Hale, Lord Chief | Justios of the king's bench. Off of | that place, thou villain!” And so the injustice was balked, and so the young | man got his inheritance. it was all for another that Sir Mat. | thew Hale took off his robe and put on the garb of a miller. And so Christ | took off His robe of royalty and put on | the attire of our humanity, and in that | disguise Ho won our eternal portion, | Now are we the sons of God. Joint heirs! We went off from home sure enough, but we got back in time to re- colve our ¢ inheritance. And if Christ was so kind to us, surely we can afford to be kind to each other. wide of and fo jurisprudence, hear 1 praciiced e, ’ ol went HE IS A TIMBER KING, | | Eanwyer Llewellyn Powers, Republican Candidate Vor Governor of Maine. Llowellyn Powers, who has been nomi- nated by the Republicans for governor of Maine, 18 a wealthy lawyer and the owner of many thousands of acres of timber land. He comes from a bg family. The Powers { boys are known ull over the state, for of tho eight brothers six of them are lawyers, { and three of them have served in the state legislature, Llewellyn Powers was born in a log house in Pittsfield mmerset county, and ved there until he was 8 years old. He STATESMAN, J The Career of 8, DD. McEnery, the Louisi- ana Senstor Elect, DM Ll] od States wm uel te) known f os, having F Year the white Mi 1la., d the cadet i and entered here he re pded the NP t enter United States After three ye I the Unis \ t 5 mained i] Het i Lav institution i Yas nt ta we hye t *oigth eons he was graduated in 1850 r. McEnery wont to Mayville, Mo., y he wk cut his shingle and began ractice of his profession, bot ho was compelled to return to Loulsiana on ae count of poor health. He had just settled down Lu his old |} ¢ when the war Ifoke Heo enlisted at once In the Confeder ate army ns captain, serving throughout the war Win fi he Ia ATH i McEnery « opening 1872 t : . Ir which whos wt ont his sword, Captain became an torney, In yement in fice 1 ¥ qv office In his native town 72 he led the Democratic northern Louisiana lected on mem ber of the sto Jogisinton In 1870 bo was elected Houtenant governor on the ticket headed by Wiltze of reconstruction fame, and two years later, on the death of Governor Wiltze, he svocooded to the gue | bernatorial chair, In 1884 ho headed the state ticket and | was cleoted governor, serving until 18-8, when ho was appointed a justice of the | state supreme court. In 1562 he was | again nominated for governor, but wasde- forte by M. J. Foster, the antilot cans didate. He fs still a member of the su. prome court and will pot leave the bench until he boglos Lia teria ns scooter. He sucoceds Sonator Dlanchand, whose tern expires pox March antl was IMASS OF ULCERS Four years ago, Mrs. Markham, of First Street, Albany, N. 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