The Jackson standard. [volume] (Jackson C.H., Ohio) 1847-1888, 1875-03-04
From the chronological Journal
Kindness to Others.
BY KATE KAvANAGH.

DO unto others as you would have
others do to you" Let Us have chat
about who those others are. 1t is my
conviction that the word means all crea-
lures with life from our felow-mortals
down to the crawling insect; that we are
1T except in selt-defense, to do any ythin =
III the tiniest one of them that We should
OF Dt like done 10 ourselves. 1t is my be-
WEI that IN the eyes of God our treat
lent OF these insignificant creatures is
r.Ie measure of our charity-the charity
Hhich includes every good trait
Is The creatures who pray, God bless me
told my wife; my son John and his wife !;
do four and no more, and there are
plenty of them, if they do not come out
as honestly as that man did, are reward
ed 10y living III an extremely harrow
world, and, naturally envy and ill will
for the rest OF mankind, have a very
large world to react upon them, and re-
pay evil for evil. The man who does
not needles>ly set loot upon worm"
who takes himself out Of the way that a
timid bird may 80 to her nest, who does
not kick II clumsy, recumbent animal
away that his lordship may pass, but
walks little out of his path to avoid
disturbing it, will do unto all others,
larger or smaller, as he would be done
by, and reap harvest of. love and kind
ness from his neighbors; for such char
acters are universally beloved. When ]
compare him with his antipode, the ruth
less wretch that loves to crush all the
little structures that the smaller beings
make with such labor, and esteems it a
luxury to lash Il poor negro, n horse, or a
child, think what a gulf is set between
them How it widens from their infancy
,lN q
enlarging in sympathy with nature
those OF the other warping and narrow
ing. How lurid and satanic the emotions
of the latter compared with the former !
i is true that the Kingdoms of heaven
and hell are in the heart TIE latteF
burns with fire. Did you ever see an
ill-natured or cruel person, child or adult.
who did not perpetually stir up a reac
ton of hatred, resentment, and lll-wlll
of others against himself?
There is little reason for mankind to
feel so loftily large as compared with ami
mails and insects, and he can scarce en-
dure their presence. He need not turn
his nose up at the ant, and imagine that
it has no rights that he is bound to re
spect. 1t has. A comparative inSignifi
canoe is the common inheritance with Us
altman, animal, and insect. This world.
littleness when compared with it, is not
as large as grain of sand contraSted
with the starry systems of the universe.
Upon this gain of sand should we be
even microscopic insects, viewed as n
spirit or God could view us from q dis
tant system? See hoW small you are
Would you like some monster to crush
or torment you because Of your small
ness2 AS you would like your rights re-
garded, so regard the rights of the meaae'
beings around you. 1t is ordained that
we shall slay and eat But if We must
kill, let us kill quickly and with little
pain, and rever kill. MAIN or persecute, OIL
permit children to do so, for pleasure
look upon Mr. Bergh as herald o.
the ".ood time coming" IL is an lde.
that will grow in the world lik e the type
Of the kingdom OF hraven-the III l>tard
seed that grew into u great tree. so taa