Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1870-06-03

pleasantness and holy peace. All, how
sad the home where coldness and unkind-
ness reign. If you give no room beside
your hearthstone for gentle and consider
ate words, and thousand little deeds of
love, prompted by dear, loving hearts. you
deny your family one Of the Sweetest boons
that God has given to ma1. Fill your
house with books, music. flowers, and
choice works of literature and art, and if
love and kindness dwell not there-what
is it? 1t is not home.
There is nothing on earth so beautiful
as the household in which mutual love
and devotedness smile forever. No cloud
can permanently darken its pure lig ght-
no trouble mar its quiet happiness. Let
the members of family vie with each
other in the choice of kind and loving
words and actions, and as freely employ
them as they do their voices; and what
ever of sorrow or trial may, in the COM
mon course of events, enter that family
circle, they will prove harmless, because
of the great bond of sympathy and love
binding its inmates together. Be kind
and loving, glad and free, and your home
will be the dearest spot on earth-the
silken tie uniting your hearts all in one,
becoming SO closely knit that naught but
death can unclasp its golden links.
Difuse the influence ofsyour goodwill
wherever you 60. It is Just as easy to
speak in a kind voice. as to be gruff and
harsh-just as easy to smile on the care
worn and weary ones ySa meet, as to
coldly frown, and pass them unheeded by
Many sad hearts, already .drooping under
trials too severe to be borue alone whose
hearts are starving for words Of love and
sympathy-would lift up glad. heart
felt "God bless YOU for the little act Of
kindness, or tender word. To make
many hearts glad would cost you but tria-
ling effort; only do not repress the beauti-
full thought Of SO doi9gsAsn it: knocks
LOUDLY xiss.:s;:.s:z:s...ss Dsza.essie2.
| Oh! speak kindly, wherever you 60,
and the echo Of your cheering words will
gladden. all your after life.
You do not know how much good you
can do, how many sad faces you may
brighten; and over the hearts and homes
Of hundreds you may cast your halo OF
loving influence, which may become a
sparkling star of glory in the crown the
Father of Love may place upon your brow.
You may never know all the good you
shall have done, but eternity will reveal
to you the result.
Kindness tits a simple word but, oh
how vast its power. How cheerful face,
with kindly voice parting the quivering
lips of age, or the ruby ones Of youth, re-
joice the eye, and refresh tho heart.
How we love those who show US sunny
little hooks way down in their large warm
hearts, so full of love and kindness that
they bubble up into little fountains of
feeling, little deeds Of tenderness, loving
smiles, the firm, honest clasp of the hand
and thousands of simple ways, all spring.
ing from the beautiful luster of the pearl.
ever nesting in the happy heart.
Oh. let the clear waters of human kind
ness burst forth, sparkling and bright,
that you may bathe in their crystal waves.
Who ever forgets kind word spoken in
time Of trial. or visit ID mercy to the
couch Of the sick and suffering? Will
not the memory of these things make
melody in your own heart? And some
times you will think of kindness you
have shown another-simple it may have
been-yet you made heavy heart glad,
and you will never forget it..
There are numerous class who more
particularly need our kindness and SYM
pathy; and first, we claim the aged as
those whose hearts and lives call for the
pure warm tones. the willing hands, and
ever ready feet. to show them kindness.
Think of the weary invalid, whose days
and nights are one long hour of pain and
suffering. The pleasures and joys of such
are few. Oh, darken not their already
dreary days with cross, bitter words, or
still more bitter deeds. Try all in your
power to make them as happy as circum-
stances will permit. Do not let them feel
themselves burden upon you. They
may be thus; yet, remember their weak
ness, and that God does not willingly af-
Aict the children Of men. Did you ever
feel sorry in your heart that you had
shown sick one little kindness? God
pity you, if you have heart like that /;
but bless you ever for the kindness shown
in sincerity to the unfortunate and dis