The McArthur enquirer. (M'arthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1873-1884, 1873-03-05
from The CHRISTIAN WITNRss.l i
The Force Of Kindness.


From IHE CHRISTIAN WITNkss.l
The Force Of Kindnegs.
"Speak kindly TO the crring, let
no harsh words fall from your
f" lips. We know not how much en-.
"couragement we may give to
"poor, tallible fellow-creaturc, jour.
"neying through life, by dropping
a kind word here and there along
e" the way, Many u heartache may
abe stilled, manya disconsolato one
soothed and their sorrows bright
" "cned by a gentle word or act"
The above pertinent lines were
written by one OF the most amia-
BILE and accomplished ladies we
ever knew, and are we'll worthy
thoughtful consideration. How
few persons prize kindness as high
ly as they should. How little they
value its force. To them, kind and
aftectionate words SAVIOR of child
ishness, and seem the lowering of
greatness; yet true greatness never
blessed mortal life unless it was
woven in with the golden thread Of
kindness. How the dark places
have been Illuminated by rays of
kindness. How often the bleeding
wound has been staunched by the
good and kind Samaritan. Who
ever priced 4 life devoid of the
mellow lays of the voice of kind
ness? All we should all hate life
were there no murmuring little riv-
ulet Juggling the sands Of kindness
along our way. Who would desire
to live where no sweet voices were
heard, and no tender words fell
from rose-hued lips made dear by
the volumes Of pleasant and cheer
ful words that dropped therefrom
like dew from the lips of the fairest
rose that ever bloomed in the kings
garden.
1he stole may turn away in dis
gust while the tender hand and
voice ofkindness touches his check,
but yet he can not fail to appreciate
that touch, that voice, those looks.
and acts of kindly regard.
For many of life's passengers
are cold and unleeling-they call il
passionateness, but it is the lack of
human and divine kindness, q
senseless manhood Of cruel pre-em-
inence yainly thought by some to be
the acme of dignity. When we see
a person who ignores kind and
gentle words, who can not speak
aitectonatoly, but who goes with a
high head and proud look, passing
the toiling, the humble, the needy,
the poor, the old, the degraded, and
the outcast without a single display
Of disinterested kindness, we say,
There goes man or woman who
shall die and soon be forgotten, or,
if remembered, only in unpleasant
recolIections.' One of the sweetest
and kindest spirits the world ever
saw was the loving Jesus, whose
sympathising heart caused his very
spirit to groan within him, and his
eyes to become moistened with
tears while he wept with the afllict-
ed. One Of Christ's most apparent
examples consisted in the law of
kindness. His divinity possessed
force, because it shonc through the
avenues Of sublime kindness.
We have known ministers whose
hearts seemed as hard as flint.
whose whole conduct displayed
hard-heartcdness that might be at
tributed to the coldest demag0gue
of selfishncss or meancst aspirant
Tor self ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, and yet
they protessed to belong to that
profession Of all most needing kind
ness as its normal force.
If a minister of the Gospel ever
succeeds well, he must be as kind
as the tender mother toward her
darling child, and yet as firm, in the
right and truth, as the rock that
stands on its mountain base, kind
looks, kind words, and kind acts,
will force men to love You, and
when you have succeeded in caps,
ing men to love and admire you, as
q warm-hearted kind friend, 'tis
then and not till then, you reach the
design Of your mission and can win
them easily to thesblessed Saviour
you serve and labor for. Oh, for
an army of full-souled, warm-heart-
ed and aifectionate men to 90 up
and down the earth shedding sun
shine and sowing with q loving and
kind hand the seed of gospel truth,
then shall we see the dark places
lit up with joyful light, and the
fallen exalted to seats of heavenly
honor in the church Of God.
Let none be unmindful of the
farce of kindness.
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