The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1891-09-23

, the clock oo the mantel or in some cor.
ner where nobody can see it, you find peo'
pie walking about your room looking
this way and that, and you ask them,
What are you looking for?" And they
answer, Where is that hower?" So if
one has in his soul this infinite sweet
ness of ofdisposition its perfume will whelm
everything.
THE EVILS OF REvENGEFUI. FEELING.
But If you are waiting and hoping tor
some one to be bankrupted or exposed
or discounted, or in any way over
thrown. then kindness has not taken
possession of your nature. You are
wrecked on a Malta where there are no
oranges. You are entertaining guest
so unlike kindness that Kindness will not
come and dwell under the same roof.
The most exhausting and uuhea lthy and
ruinous teeIlng on earth is revengeful
spirit or retaliating spirit, as know by
experience, for have tried it hve or ten
minutes at time. When some meen
thing has been done me or said about
me have felt Il will pay him iu his
own coin. l will show him up. The
migrated! The traitor! The liar! The
villain!'
But five or ten minutes Of the feeling
has been so unnerving and exhaustiug
that I have abandoned it, and I cannot
understand how people can 60 about
torturlng themselves live or ten OF twen-
ty years, trying to get even with some
body. The only way you will ever
triumph over your enemies is by forglv-
ing them and wishing them all good and
no evil. AS malevolence is the most
uneasy and proftless and dangerous feel
inc, kindness is the most nealthful and
delightful. And this is not all abstrac-
ton. AS have tried little of the re-
taliation, so I have tried little Of the
forgiving.
do not want to leave this world un-
til have taken vengeance upon every
man that ever did me wrong by dong
him a kindness. In most of such cases
have already succeeded, but there are
q few malignants whom I am yet pur-
SUNG, and shall not be content until l
have II some wise helped item or bene-
fted them or blessed them. Let US all
pray for this spirit of kindness. 1t will
settle thousand questions. 1t will
change the phase of everything. 1t vii!
mellow through and through our entire
nature. It will transform lifetime. 1t
is not feeling gotten up fer occasions,
but perennial.
That is the reason like petunias bet
ter than morning glories. They look
very much alike, and if I should put in
your hand a petuuia and morning
glory you could hardly tell which is he
petunie and which the morning glory;
but the morning glory blooms only a few
hours and then shuts up for the day,
while the petunia is IN as widespread
glow at twelve O'Clock at noon and SIX
O'Clock in the evening as aS sunrise.
And this grace Of kindness is not spas
modic, is not intermittent, is not for
little while, but it irradiates the whole
nature, all through and clear on till the
sunset Of our earthly existence.
Kindness! am resolved to get it.
Are you resolved to get it? 1t does not
come BY haphazard, but through culture
unde- Tie divine help. Thlstles grow
without culture. Rocky mountain sage
grass grows without culture. Mullen
stalks grow without culture. But that
great red rose in the conservatory. its
leaves packed on leaves. deep dyed as
though it had been obliged to fight for
its beauty and it were still reeking with
the carnage Of the battle, that rose need
ed to be cultured, and through long years
its floral ascentors were cultured. o
God, implan. kindness in all our souls,
and then give us grace to watch it, to
enrich it, to develop it!
The king of Prussia had presented to
him by the empress Of Russia the root
Of rare flower, and it was put In the
royal gardens Oh an island, and the head
gardener, Herr Fintelmann, was told to
watch it. And one day it put forth its
glory. Three days of every week the
people were admitted to these gardens,
and a young nan, probably not realiz-
ng what wrong thing he was doing,
plucked this flower and put it in his but
tonhole, and the gardener arrested him
as he was crossing at the ferry, and
asked the king to throw open no more
his gardens to the public. The king re-
piled: ''Shall 1 deny the thousands Of
good people Of my country the privilege
Of seeing this garden because one visitor
has done wrong? No, let them come
and see the beautiful grounds"
And when the gardener wished to give
the king the name Of the offender who
had taken the royal flower, he said,
No, my memory is very tenacious and
l do not want to have in my mind the
name Of the offender, lest it should him
der me granting him a favor some other
time" Now, I want you 10 know that
kindness is royal flower, and blessed
be God, the King Of mercy and grace,
that by divine gift and not by purloin.
ing, we may pluck this royal flower and
not wear it on the outside Of our nature,
but wear it in our soul and wear it for
ever, It's radiance and aroma not more
wonderful for tune than wonderful for
eternity.
KIND woRDs CAN NEVER DIE.''
Still further, must speak of kindness
OF word. When you meet any one do
you say pleasant thing or an unpleas-
ami? Doyou tell him OF agre, able things
you have heard about him, or the disa-
greeable? When he leaves you does be
feel better or does he feel worse? Oh,
the power of the tongue for the produc-
ton ofhappiness or misery! One would
think from the way the tongue is Gagged
IN we might take the hint that it has a
DANGEROUS power. First, i. is chained
to the back of the mouth by strong mus
cles. Then tits surrounded by the teeth
Of the lower jaw, so many ivory bars,
and then by the teeth OF the upper jaw,
more ivory bars. Then outside Of all
are the two lips with the power Of COM