| Show A CUREALL CURE ALL some gentlemen were talking one evening at the house of a friend when one of them exclaimed biah ah depend upon it a soft answer ig Is a in mighty cure all at this thia stage of the conversation a boy who sat bebing behind at a table studying his latin grammar began to listen and repeated as he supposed quite to himself A soft answer is a mighty cure all yes yes yea thava thaes it cried tle ile the gentleman starting and turning round to where the echo came from yes it dont you think so my lad the boy blushed a little at finding himself so unexpectedly addressed but replied 1 I dont know whether I 1 quite understand you sir 12 well then ill pil explain said the gentleman wheeling round his bis chair for it is a principle you ought to understand and act upon besides it is the principle which is is going 0 to conquer the world s the boy looked more puzzled than ever and thought he would like to know something I 1 that was equal to alexander himself 1 I might as well explain said he be rib by Y telling you about the first time it conquered me my aly father was an officer and his notion was to settle everything by fighting if a boy ever gave me a saucy word it was fight yem lem cm charly fight yem lem em by and by I 1 was ben sen sent t to the famous school and it so happened my seat was next to a lad named tom tucker when I 1 found he lived in a small house behind the academy I 1 began tostrup to strut a little tittle and talk about what my father was but he was a capital scholar very much thought of by the boys besides being excellent at bat and ball so we were soon on pretty good terms a and it d so 90 it went t v e nt on for some time after a while some of the fellows fellow ity alty of my stamp and I 1 with the rest got into a difficulty with one of the us ushers hers bers and somehow or other we got the notion that this tom tucker was at the bottom of it tom who is he I 1 cried angrily lii ill 1111 let him know who I 1 am and we ie rattled on until we fairly talked ourselves into a parcel of wolves the boys then set me on to go down to tom tuckers and let him know what he had to expect swelling with rage I 1 bolted into his yard where he was at work with trip and his little sister lil pil ili tead teed yo to talk about lute are in this manner merw I 1 thundered marching guyto him I 1 he never winced or seem seemed edthe the least frightened but stood still jt ill lil looking at me ine as mild as a lamb tell teli mey mes me s I 1 cried throwing down all my books bookay doubling up tip my fists and anda sidling up to him tell me or ill kill youl houi I 1 was wai was going to say for murder was iii my heart ile he stepped on one side but answered firm ly yet mildly charles you may strike ne me as much as you please I 1 tell you I 1 shant strike back again fighting is a poor way to settle difficulties pm im thinking when you are charles everett ill talk with you ay oh ob what a soft answer was that ho how hovy vy it cowed me down so firm and yet so mild I 1 felt that there was no fun in it having the fun all on one side I 1 was ashamed of myself y m my y temper and everything about me I 1 longed to get out of his sight bight I 1 saw what a poor foolish way my way of doing things was I 1 felt that tom had completely complete ligot got the thie better of me that there was a power in his principles superior to anything I 1 had ever seen before and from that hour tom foin tucker had an influence over me which nobody else ever had before or since it has been for good too that f you see is the power the mighty moral power of a soft answer 1 I have been about the world a great deal since then and I 1 believe said the gentleman that n early nearly all ihnot if pot nob all the bicke rings 0 the quarrels and disputes which arise amon among in men women or children in families nei nel neighborhoods abor oo 00 churches or even nations can be to cure cured by the mighty moral power of a soft answer for the scripture has it A soft answer burneth away wrath |
