Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1860-01-13
KIND DwozDs CAN NEVER DE-,
q Kind words can never die
Cherished and blest,
God knows how deep they lie
Stored i'm the breast


Stored in the breast.
How very few of us really know the value OF
kind words or even think of the happiness
they bring to those around usf We are too
needless of the words we speak, too apt to for
get, in the joys and cares of our own lives, that
there are others near, weary and suffering, to
whom our kindness perhaps may come as rays
Of Heavens own sunlight, frightening and
cheering into new life their WORKOUT spirits
We, who are young and thoughtless, just en-
tering upon the realities of life.-who have still
around us the loving tones and soft smiles of
friends--to whom the trials and weariness OF
our path on earth are yet unknown; however
dear TO rs may be the gentle voices of love,
however we may cherish the blessings of home
do net, cannot know the full value of kind
words. Those only who have felt the want Of
them can know their iuestimable worth. He
who has wandered in foreign lands, far from
home and friends he who has lain sick and
lonely beneath distant sky, seeing around Linn
only strange faces, and hearing only unknown
tongues, can tell how more than welcome would
have been the speech of his own land, heard in
the kind and familiar tones of friendship.
tf Kind words can never die Though long
years nave swept over edItH SlLCe tiIc
time when they were spoken though the lips
that gave them utterance may have long been
hushed the heart from which they flowed
been buried beneath the green tnrf--yet they
are aot lost, their memory still lives cherished
and blest influence from the past. p,
{. Kind words make happy homes.'
That home alone, however high or lowly, is
blest where love and gentleness reign for
what are kind words but types of these heaven
born qualities? tt From the abundance of the
heart the mouth speaketh - and where kindly
thoughts fill our inward life, the outward life
will show them fourth in kind anil gentle
words. They are the links in the chain which
binds together the forms that cluster around
the firesiie. They are the guardian angels ut
the affairs of domestic peace and happiness the
gentl,. ministering spirits that hover around
the head of infant innocence, ever ready to giai-
en- the heart by some mission of love everac-
tive to soothe the angry spirit of contention
with the oil of charity. Home is not home
without them when kind words are unheard
in the dwelling, and all the grslces that follow
their footsteps have fled with them, then indeed
is home no longer the resting place of the heart.
The sunlight of love has left the sky of life. and
the dark night of sorrow is brooding overhead
starless and drcar.
Weneed kind words all along our way on earth;
in JOY and in sorrow alike are they welcome
at the wedding feast, and the burial service
They are angel messengers to earth's weary
children rejoicing with them that do rejoice,
and weeping with them that weep" As the
evening dew drops, coming down from the skies
fall upon the fair young flowers, freshening
them into new life, SO do the gentle voices OF
Kindness come upon the human heart. And as
the little summer streams, bubblng up in GLAD
music, greet the coming of the cheering sun
shine, so does the grateful spirtspring forth to
meet their touch Oh could we only know
how much of usefulness lies within power
by the simple means of love, how many we
might bless with sympathy we should mo-
be sparing of it.
st-,ssy = Oh deem it not idle thing, . VI lr
angry word to speak:
POS The look you wear, the thoughts you bring,
Eae.f .r- a heart may heal or break. - ..--r