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" THE 'PULPIT.' AN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY THE REV. ROBERT COLLYER. Subject: Leading Children Softly. Brooklyn, N. Y.?The Rev. Robert Collyer, the oldest Unitarian pastor in Greater New York, preached in the Second Unitarian Church, Clinton and Congress streets, Sunday morning. His last appearance in that church was last fall, when he delivered an address on the late Rev. Dr. John White Chadwirk. thr> former nastor. who had just died. The eloquent preacher took for his text: Genesis xxxiii:13-14, "The children are tender; I will lead on softly," and said: It was one of the secrets of my craft, an the old days when I wanted to weld i iron or work steel to a tine purpose, to begin gently. If I began as all learners do, to strike my heaviest blows at the start, the iron would crumble instead of welding, or the steel would suffer under my hammer, so that, when it came to be tempered it would "fly," as we used to say, and rob the thing I had made of its finest quality. It was the first condition of a good job to begin gently, later I could strike with a firmer hand, and in the end pour out all my might in a storm of sturdy blows; but if I began so it ended, as a rule, with a wreck. The perfection of the Nasmyth hammer lies in the blending of its gentleness and its ponderous might, so that it can come down as gently as a June shower or smite like a tornado, according to the need of the moment. So the skillful mechanic starts new machinery, a locomotive, a steam engine or even a sewing machine, gently. It is the first condition hil-inr>a trilrt tlmt the* VJL UJC K/144UWVV %-v machine shall not tear away at first at high pressure. I noticed the same In the building up 3f a grand organ. The builder began gently in bringing out its harmonies, with some fine chords, made those true and went on to the others, and s? wrought on to the end. Again an animal trainer while he smites the tiger with an iron bar, if he is wise talks to a horse, allures him, courts him and makes him his friend. We do not speak of "breaking" a horse, so much now; we "train" him. So I love to note such things as these as I watch the perpetual advent of little children into tins life of ours, and wonder how we shall deal with them in the one wise way which will weld sthem, shall I say, to whatsoever things * are true and lovely and of good report, start them to the surest purpose and train them so as to -bring out the whole power for good which God has hidden in their mature. There must be v one right way, and I .think this father found it when he said: "The children are tender; I will lead fliem on softly." 'They may seem crude, mere machines or little brutes; there are some men who seem by their actions to have such notions of a -child's nature, to their eternal shame. Here is the principle: They are tender; we must lead them on softly. Solomon may slip in with his cruel maxim of "Spare the rod And spoil the child.'" He has no business about my place while my children are tender. I can no more be hard on them than Jesus could. If I hurt them in this evil way I hurt those who are of the kingdom of Heaven. My white hairs have brought me this wisdom: That the unpardonable sin ts to be hard on a tender child. I do not wonder that the old grandsire is so gentle with the second generation. He ' will not tell you, <xr himself, perhaps, why he is, but he would fain recall some passages of his fatherhood, but that cannot be done, so he chokes back .the inextinguishable regret and humbly (tries to get even through the overaneasure. My good mother was something of a Spartan, n very gentle (Spartan, with her children, bub it was wonderfully beautiful to see her in her old age spreading her wide, grand, motherly wings over the children of . the new day. She could no more be hard upon them, no matter what pranks they played, than jour May sun can be hard upon your May blossom. It was the return of the heart to the soft answer, the sweec submission to the better plan, the vision of. the infinite worth of gentle ways with tender folk, the endeavor, unknown to t herself, to ease her dear old heart of what little pain there was from the old days, the feeling that perhaps she might have gone more softly once. These children are not things at all that we can turn out to pattern, but human beings, each one living to himself or to herself, holding a secret we cannot fathom, possessing powers perhaps we cannot even guess at ?our children after the flesh: God's children after the spirit, hut intrusted to our hands and homes that, coming out of Heaven with hints of the angels in them, they may go back when their time comes as sealed saints. The boy may be the image of the father, yet totally different within. We vainly try in our children, sometimes, to see our image, we detect a faculty or temper we never had. The Holy Spirit, which watches forever, selects and saves, by a law we do not half understand, and we do not understand these tender natures until we know what these powers are which are waking out of their sleep. My boy may have a faculty which in thirty 4 years may be a benediction to the human family, but to-day it may look like a vice to me, and may grow to be i _ : ^ - :r a ,yice ll 1 uiu jivt 6aj, me uuixu js tender, I will lead on softly."' He may be born with an overplus of imagination and things that have no existence may seem realities to him; I imagine be is lying right and left, and then Instead cf a gentle guidance, through which he can find the line between things and thoughts, I give first a stern warning and then a sound whipping. Here is a case where a father and t son are alike, but with a difference. The father, a minister, has been drawing on his imagination, time out of mind, for matter for his sermons; the son has come honestly by the faculty, but he is not shrewd enough to see how far he can go without being found out. The father prays for him at the family altar, as if he were a sou of } perdition, and helps to make him one ; through such prayers. "Gently." i j would say, "pray for insight and for. - ; sight; This may be a rf^e gift you : not understand. The loftiest poet tin t j ever sang may be but a vaster liar ! ; * j your criterion." Children are tender we must rem:: -- ber as we try io educate then:. We could hardly light on a wiser or better woman than Mrs. Barbauld; but she was so eager to make a very remarkable man out of her little nephew, Charles Aiken, that she educated him out of hi* mind into idiocy. So good parents, who would shrink from laying heavy burden on their children's backs, do not hesifate to lay burdens on the nerve and brain. They urge them on at their books, or permit the teachers to do this, until the poor young things lose more in wealth of life and life's worth than their education will ever pay for. Lead on softly in these paths of education. If your children want to rush ahead at a pace whicli will Ipjivp them learned but invalids, hold them back: a true education is not a long fever. Here and there a child may need to be urged on a little, but I frankly confess that under the high pressure of our public schools I would take the children's side in their little plots to stay away a day from school when they have been hard at work for many days. I like to plot with them; their success pleases me more than their failure. In the culture of the heart, also, we must lead on softly. I can no more believe that hard and cruel thoughts of God will be good for my children than I can believe in hard and cruel words and blows, and I have no doubt there i are more so-called infidels made, and confirmed to that end. by fathers who thought they were doing God's service than there are of any other type. Such thoughts may be but theology to the father, but they are very often grim, hard, real biting torment to the tender child. It shuts out Heaven and opens hell to him; it is cruel as the hissing and biting of serpents to some delicate small souls. I suffered more agony at one time in my childhood when a revivalist got hold of me and made me believe I might wake up in hell when I laid my poor little head on the pillow than from any orher thing that ever struck me. There lies the way to do a fatal mischief, the way the seeds of infidelity are sown in many a noble nature. It is simply the revolt at, the resistance to, and the rejection of, a God their nature is too laTge and sweet and tender to tolerate. If in these early days there is no day star of a lovelier light, no dawning for the small, bright I soul of a betteT day, then there may be no chance for that soul to pass into the kingdom until it has passed out of the WVIIiU* When we trnote the Scripture: "Train ufc a child In the way he should go," we must still take heed to our ways lest we think more of the Scripture than we think of the child?fix our mind and purpose on the other rather than the hither end of the way and train him for what he should be at forty rather than what he must be in childhood and youth. We most answer for what is written in the hook of the life of ottr children. I must lay the patriarch's gentle purpose to my heart: "The j children are tender, I will lead on" softly," for these in my care, who \ also have the long hard journey before j them. If this is trne of the shadow, how j true it must he of the light. If ours i is a hard and poor lot, no man or j woman, father or mother, need ever 1 fear the children will fail to look back- j ward to the eaTly years with a tender ] love, if hy aTl the means in our power j we make good for them the patriarch's :j purpose. I think, indeed, our love for the old home is very often deepest and purest in those "who have had to face the hardest times if we have fought through them in this bright, good way, and led the children on softly. There were homes in this country fifty, sixty, seventy years ago bare of all things save this one secret?they are the dearest places on the earth to-day in memory of men and women who have everything now the heart can desire. And when we have done this, what better can we do than put the whole wealth of our endeavor in trust into the hands of God. "Then Art My Ufht." A touching Incident was narrated by Dr. R. F. Horton on the second Sunday after his return from months of treatment by a celebrated German oculist. He was waiting in the oculist'6 consulting room, not knowing whether or not the remainder of his life was to be passed in darkness, -when he put his hand into his pocket and drew out his j little Bible?not to read it. but to see if I he could. As he opened it his eyes fell [ on the text: "For Thou are ray lamp, O Lord; j and the Lord will lighten my dark- j ness." "I bad not been awn re of the very I existence of this text," lie said, "and j I do not know who but an angel could have led me to it; but I felt that, J whether I received my sight or not, ' those words were enough for me, and | from that time I seemed to know that j I should continue to proclaim the word# i of this blessed Book." Duty Above Life. Life is a matter of very small account to any one in comparison with duty-doing, whether a man realizes this truth or not. Whatever is worth living for is worth dying for, if dying be an incident to ks pursuing. When the Roman General, Pompey, was warned against the danger of his returning from Egypt to Italy, to meet a new trouble in liis own land,-his heroic answer was: "It is a small matter that I should move forward and j die. It is too great a matter that I I should take one step backward and I live." Life is never well lived when I it. is held dearer than duty. He who I would tell a lie in order to live is will- j j ing to pay a great deal larger price for i his life than that life is worth to him, self?or to others.?H. C. Trumbull. Short Meter Sermons. Kindness makes kr\ Faith gives fiber to life. Blessed are the buoyant lives. The selfish cannot be sanctified. Purity does not rest on a plebiscite. It takes more than a syllogism to 1 save men. Hot air is always succeeded by a cold i wave. | Deeper science is the cure for scien- ! ( tific doubt. There are a lot of people who would rather gather to-morrow's thistles than to-day's figs. Wliat Brln^o Hope. It is necessary to distinguish carefully between submission to the will of j God and to an inevitable fate. The j one brings hope, but the other despair, j ?Presbyterian Record. The Student Strike in Rusaia# The university eta-dent In Russia, with Tare exceptions, belongs to the liberal party. It seems to have become a tradition that the student's attitude should be strongly agains the government. This is in laTge measure explained by the fact that the siudent class suffers more than any other from the arbitrary regulations of the police and censor. Each faculty la provided with its subinspeclor, and hie staff. At first I took these uniformed "spies" for janitors, but afterward learned that their duties con sisted simply in remembering the full came of each student, in getting acquainted, as far as possible, with the voices of those who seemed to be the leaders, in order to recognize them even from behind closed doors. In the gymnasia, corresponding to our high and preparatory schools, the re- ! gulations are even more strict than j in the universities, and there is no | evidence of organized protest. Like- i wise, on leaving the university, the student finds himself struggling against the bureaucratic machine, and gradually submits and accepts it as inevitable. There is a small conservative element in the student body, but it does not form an* opposition party and can be disregarde-d. since it ex- j erts title or no influence on the general trend of student activities.?The World Today. Great, But Absent-Minded. It is not disgrace, even for a famaus -man, to lo3e an umbrella, so the New York Times tells with evident delight of a celebrated lawyer who darted info a furnishing goods store on a recent rainy Friday, purchased an umbrella, and carried It as far as the door. There he stopped to make a note in a memorandum book. He left the umbrella leaning against the wall while he wrote, and when he finished the writing he started out without ev thought of the umbrella. Within a minute he rushed into the other door of the same shop. He wanted to buy an umbrella. T thought I had one with me when I left home," he said, in a semi-apologetic way, "but 1 guess I must have forgotten to take it." A second salesman sold him another umbrella. As he started to carry it bom the shop, the first salesman confronted him "You left, your umbrella, sir," the clerk s&KL, as be held up the original purchase. ""Bless me, so I did." cried the lawyer, "and I suppose I was going oil with Borne other man's!" 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These resolutions "'indorse the Attitude of President Roosevelt in condemning secret rebates and other illegalities, and commend the attitude of the heads of American railways, who, with practical unanimity, have joined with the President on this question." .They then respectfully point out to Congress the "inadvisability of legislation vesting in the hands of a commission power over railway rates, now lower by fa- in the United States than in any other country." because such regulation would "result in litigation and confusion and inevitably tend to an enforced reduction in rates, irrespective of (be question of the ability of the railroads to stand the reduction. especially in view of the increased cost of their supplies and materials." They further protested against snch power being given to the present Interstate Commission because "the proposed legislation is not in harmony j with our idea of American juris- i prudence, inasmuch as it contemplates ' that a single body shall have the right ! to investigate, indict, try, condemn and j then enforce its decisions at the cost j of the carriers, pending appeal, which ! is manifestly Inequitable." The conductors base Their demaud j for only snch legislation, if any, as ! would "secune and insure justice and j equity and preserve equal rights to all ; parties concerned" on the ground that \ the low cost of transportation "is the i result of the efficiency of American j railway management and operation ' which have built up the country j through constant improvement and development of territory, while at the same time recognition has been given to the value of intelligence among employes in contrast to foreign methods, where high freight rates and lowest wages to employes obtain.*' In pressing their claim against legislation adverse to their interests, they point out the fact that "the freight rates of this country average only two per cent, of the cost of articles to the consumer, thus making the freight rate so Insignificant a factor in the selling price that numerous standard articles J nra cftl.l of tlin conic nripo In oil nnrtc > twt OV.U 1*1 *W*. * t"" ! of thp country." 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Referring to the recent banquet given Mr. C&oate by the bench <f the Middle Temple, the London Pall Mall Gazette makes a pretty play with the word "diplomatist," interpreting it is "one with a double duty, and a double responsibility"?to his own country i and the country that receives him. : The evolution of "diplomatist" from the Greek verb for "to double" is very curious. "Diploma," a doubling, was specialized as a folded paper, and particularly, in Roman times, an offlcial passport or license. Thus "diplomatic science," down to the end of the eighteenth century, meant the science of manuscripts and documents. which exnlains a modern writer's strange remark that "there is not a shadow of diplomatic doubt thrown over the integrity of the Third GospeL" Dr. Murray's Dictionary assigns the* translation to the modern meaning to Leibnitz's "Codex Juris Gentium Diplomaticus," law), and the title of a similar French work. 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