Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1891-10-15

ana through our entire natrrc ~
transform lifetime. 1t Is NOT wiii
ing gotten up for occasions h.. iee
ennisl. That is the reason PER
petunias better than morniny..lo.aks
They look very much alike. ana ~,
should put in your hana
petunia and mornnr.a,.a
you could hardly tell WIZ ssory
the pctunia and which the mnr non
glory; but the morning glory hing
only few hours and then shuts uHs
the day, while the petun;a Is i !,
widespread a glow at IL o'cloel
noon and at 6 o'clock in the evsn;n."
at sunrise. And this grace of ltipdpsaa'
is not spasmodic. is not inter,pir.aess.
is not for little while, but n ~
dates the whole nature, all thronr
and clear on till the sunset If h
earthly existence. Kindness, anu our
solved to get it. Are you resolved y
get it? 1t does not come by han.h.".
gard, but through culture unda, " ~
Divine help. Thistles grow w;t,o one
culture. Rocky Mountain SAGE nr,us
grows without culture. Mullen stas,.s
grow without culture. But tia, 49,
red rose in the conservatory, it's lsavas
packed on leaves, deep-dyed as tho
it had been obliged to fight for e..
beauty and it were still reekipr rr;.s
the carnage of the battle. that ro an
needed to be cultured and thron"s
long years its floral ancss,p.a
were cultured. o God. implant Is;na
ness in all our souls, and then give emu ~.
grace to watch it. to enrich it, to ds'
velop it! W.
The East wind and the West wind
were one day talking with each othas
and the East wind said to the Me,
wind: Don't you wish you had INV
power? Why, when start they hail
me by storm signals all along the coas,
l can twist of ships mast as easily a.
a cows hoof cracks an a der. WIN
one sweep of my wing, hara
strewn the coast from New
foundland to Key West with pa,1sa
ship-timber. can lift and haze lifted
the Atlantic Ocean. am the terro.
of all invalidism, and to fight me bac,,
forests must be cut down for fires and
the mines Of continents are called on
to feed the furnaces. Under INV
breath the nations crouch in semi.
chres. Don't you wish you had NV
power?" said the east wind. The ives,
wilma made no answer, but started on
It's mission, coming somewhere out ~
the rosy bowers OF the sky. and ali
the rivers and lakes and seas smiled a.
ats coming. The gardens hloomed
and the orchards ripened and thu
wheat fields turned their silver into
gold, and health clapped it's hands.
and JOY shouted from the Hill tons
and the nations lifted their foreheads
into the light, and the earth had A
doxology 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 insolencc of the East
winds Interrogation.
Kindness to oil! Surely it ought not
to be difficult grace to culture when
we see towering above the centuries
such an example that one glimpse of it
ought to melt and transit rim all ma
tions. Kindness brought our Lord
from Heaven. Kindness TO mis-
creants, kindness to prosecutors kind.
ness to the crippled and the blind
and the cataleptic and the lepr,us
and the dropsical, and the Gemoniacal
characterized him all the way, and on
the Cross, kindness to the bandits sut.
fering on the side of him, and kindness
to the executioners while vet they
pushed the spear and hammered the
spikes, and howled the blasphemies.
All the stories of the John Towards
and the Florence Nightingales ard the
Grace Darlings and the Ida Lew
ises 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 to be nailed
to the horizontal timber OF the
Cross with that cruel thump thump.
now stretches down from the skies
those same hands filled with balm
for all our wounds, forgiveness for all
our crimes, rescue FOR all oar scrsdoms.
And while we take this matchiess kind
ness from God, may it be found that We
have uttered our last bitter word, writ
ten our last cutting paragraph, done
our last retaliatory action. felt our last
revengeful heart-throb. And it would
not be bad epltapn for any of us ii
by the grace of God from this time
forth we lived such benefcent lives
that the tombstone's chisel could
appropriately cut upon the plain
slab that marks our grave sugges'
ton from the text: He showed US no
little kindness" But until the 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 Ut heaven are
thrummed or blown or sounded, and
the ransomed of all climcs and ages arc
in full chorus under the jubiian,
swing Of angelic baton, and we shall
for thousands of years have seem the
river from under tho throne roirng
into the "sea Of glass mingled WIZ
6re," and this world wo now inhaol'
shall be 30 far in the past that only =
stretch of celestial memory can recsn
that 1t ever existed at all, not unt''
then will We understand what Memo,
miah calls "the marvellous kindness,
and Isaiah calls 1.-The everlasting kina'
ness" of God!