Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-09-17
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and clear on till the sunset Of our
earthly existence, kindnessl / am re.
solved to get It, Are you resolved to
get itP IL does not come by hap-haz.
zard, but through culture under the
Divine help. Thistles grow without
culture. Rocky Mountain sage grass
grows without culture. Mullen stocks
grow without culture. But that great
red rose in the conservatory, its leaves
packed on leaves, decp-dyed as though
1t had been Obliged to fight for It's
beauty and IL were still reeking with
tho carnage of the battle, that rose
needed to be cultured and through
long years it's floral ancestors
were cultured. O Godl implant kind.
ness in all our souls, and then give MS
grace TO watch it, TO enrich II, to dc.
velop i'll
The East wind and tho West wind
were one day talking with each other,
and the East wind said to tho West
wind Don't YOU wish you had my
power2 Why, when start they hail
me by storm signals all along the coast.
i can twist of u ships mast as easily as
cows hoof cracks an alder. With
ono sweep of my wing, have
strewn the coast from New.
foundland TO Key West with parted
ship-timber, | can lift and have lifted
the Atlantic Ocean. am the terror
of all invalidism, and TO fight me back
forests must be cut down for fires, and
the mines OF continents are called on
To feed the furnaces. Under my
breath the nations crouch In sepul-
chres. Don't you wish you had my
powcrp' said the east wind, Tho west
wind made no answer, but started on
10.
the rosy bowers of the sky, and oil
the rivers and lakes and seas smiled at
it's coming. The gardens bloomed,
and the orchards ripened, and the
wheat fields turned their silver into
gold, and health clapped It's hands,
and Joy shouted from the hill tops,
and the nations lifted their foreheads
into the light, and tho earth had n
doNology for the sky, and the sky an
anthem for the earth, and the warmth,
and the sparkle, and the gladness, and
the foliage, and the flowers, ana the
fruits, and the beauty, and the life,
were the only answer the West wind
made to the insolence Of tho East
winds Interrogation.
Kindness TO all Surely Il ought not
TO be difficult grace TO culture when
we see towering above the centuries
such an example that one glimpse of II
ought to melt and transform all ma.
tions Kindness brought our Lord
from Heaven. Kindness to mis-
creunts, kindness TO prosecutors kind
ness TO tho crippled and the blind
and tho cntaleptic and tho leprous
aud the dropsical and the demoniacal
characterized him all the way, and on
the Cross, blindness To the bandits suf-
fay IN ha all la ~ -
20 the executioners while yet they
pushed the spear and hammered the
spikes, and howled the blasphemics.
All tho stories OF the John Towards
and the Florence Nightingales and the
Grace Darlings and the Ida Lew
Uses pale before this transcen-
dant example OF him whose birth and
life and death are the greatest story
that the world ever heard ana the theme
OF the mightiest hosanna that Heaven
ever lifted. Yea, the kindness that
allowed both hands 20 be nailed
TO the horizontal timber OF the
Cross with that cruel thump thump
now stretches down from the skies
those same hands filed with balm
for all our wounds, forgiveness for all
our crimes, rescue for all our scrfdoms.
And while we take this matchless kind.
ness from God, may II be found that we
have uttered our last bitter word, writ
ton our last cutting paragraph, done
our last retaliatory action, felt our last
rcvcngcful heart-throb. And IL would
not be u bad opltaph for any of us n
by the grace of God from this time
forth we lived such benefcent lives
that the COMMISSIONERS chisel could
appropriately cut upon tho plain
slab that marks our grave sugges.
ton from the text: "IIe showed ms no
little kindness" But until tho last
child of God has got ashore from the
earthly storms that drove him on the
rocks like Mediterranean Euroclydons,
not until all the thrones OF heaven are
mounted, and all the conquerors
crowned, and all the harps and trum
pets and organs Of heaven are
thrummcd or blown or sounded, and
tho rnnsomed OF all climes and ages ara
in full chorus under the jubilant
swing of angelic baton, and we shall
for thousands of years have seen the
river from under tho throne rolling
into the "sea Of glass mingled with
fire." and this world we now inhabit
shall be so far in the past that only
stretch OF celestial memory can recall
that IL ever existed at all, not until
then will we understand what Nehe'
miah calls "the marvellous Kindness
and isaiah calls 1.-THE everlasting kind.
ness" of God