Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-10-15
ONLY ONE KIND WORD.
YOU SHOULD NEVER HESITATE
TO UTTER 1T.
Or. TaIma:e Returns to br"oR'y"
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cation. Sermon with kindness NJ
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cation. sermon with kindness NJ
the Text
Here we are on the Island of Malta.
anot her name for Mciitu. This island,
which ha always been an important
commercial center. belonging at diner
ent times to Phrnicia, u Greece, 10
Rome. to Arabia. t, Spain, TO France,
now belongs to England. The area III
the island is about one hundred square
miles. 1t is in the Mediterranean Sea.
and of such clarity OF atmosphere that
Mount Etna. 1877 miles away, can be
distinctly seen. The island is g.orl-
ously memora BILE, because the knights
of Malta for long while ruled there.
but most famou, because OF the apos-
tolic shipwreck. The bestormed vessel
on which Paul sailed had Laid to-,
on the starboard tack and the wind
was blowing cast-northeast and the
vessel, drifting. probably a mile and q
half an hour, she struck at what Is now
called st. Paul's bav. Practical sailors
have taken up the bible account and de.
cided beyond controversy the place OF
the shipwrcck. But the island
which has SO rough coast
is for the most part garden.
Richest fruits and profusion OF
honey characterized it in Pauls time
as we'll as now. The finest oranges
firs, and olives grew there. When
Paul and his comrades crawled up on
the beach, saturated with the salt
water, and hungry from long abstin-
ence from food, and chilled to the
bone the islanders, though called bar
barians, because they could not speak
Greek, opened their doors to the
shipwreckcd unfortunates. Everything
had gene to the bottom of the deep,
and the barefooted, bareheaded apos-
tie and ships crew were in n condition
to appreciate hospitality. About
twenty-five such men few seasons
ago found in the life station near
Easthampton, Long Island. They
had got ashore in the night from
the sea, and not hat or shoe. had
they left. They found out, as Paul
and his fellow-voyagers found out, that
the sea is the toughest of all robbers.
My text finds the ships crew ashore
on Malta, and around a hot fire drying
themselves, and with the best pro-
vision the islanders can offer them.
And they 60 into government quarters
for three days to recuperate, Publius,
the ruler inviting them, although
he had severe sickness in the
house at that time, his father down
with dysentery and typhoid fever.
Yea, for three months they stayed on
the island watching for ship. and
putting the hospitalities Of the island
ers to q severe test. But it endured
the test satisfactorily, and it is record
ed for all the ages Of time and eternity
to read and hear in regard to the in.
habitants of Malta: The barbarous
people showed us no little kindness"
There is is kindness Of disposition.
kindness of word, kindness of act, and
there is Jesus Christ the impersonation
of all of them. Kindness! You cannot
affect it, you cannot play it as part,
you cannot enact it, you cannot dram.
atize it. BY the grace of God you must
have it inside you, an everlasting SUM-
mer, or rather a combination of June
and October the geniality Of the
one and the tonic of the
other. 1t cannot dwell with arrogance
or spite or revenge Or malevolence.
At its first appearance in the soul all
these Amalekites and Geryishites and
Utilities and Jebusites must quit, and
quit forever. Kindness wishes 'ery-
body we'll, every man we'll. every wo-
man well, every child we'll, every bird
we'll, every horse well, every dog we'll,
every cat we'll. Give this spirit full
swing and you would have no more
need of societies for prevention
of cruelty to animals, no more need OF
protective sewing woman's ASSOCIATION,
and it would dull every sword until it
would not cut skin deep. and unwheel
every battery till it could not roll. and
make gnnpowder of no more use in the
world except for rock blasting or pyro-
technic celebration. Kindness is spir-
it divinely implanted, and in answer to
prayer, and then t. he seduously cult
waited until it fills all nature with a
perfume richer and more pungent than
mignonette, and, as II you put tuft of
that aromatic beauty + hind the clock
on the mantel. or in some corner where
nobody can see cit. you find people
walking about your room looking this
wey and that, and you ask them,
''"hst are You looking for?" and they
answer, "Where Is that fower?'-So
~ OAO mas IN ulb SOUL tnlS 1n0nlto
sweetness of disposition its per.
fune will whelm everything.
But are you waiting and hoping for
some one to be bankrupted or exposed,
or discounted, or in some way over
thrown, then kindness has not taken
possession Of your nature. You are
wrecked on q Malta where there are
no oranges. You are entertaining a
guest SO unlike kindess that kind
ness will not come and dwell uu.
der the same roof The most
exhaustfng and unhealthy and ruin.
Gus feeling on earth is q revenreful
spirit or retaliating spirit, as I know
by experience. for I have tried it tor
Ave or ten minutes at time When
some mean thing has been done me or
said about me, have felt II will paw
him ih his own coin. will show him
up. The migrate! The traitor! The
liar! The villain!'' But 1--WE or ten min.
utes Of the feeling has been 50 un.
n rving and exhaustiug have
abandoned 1t, and l cannot under
stand how people can 60 about tortur.
ing themselves FIVE or ten or twenty
years, trying to get even with some