The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-09-24
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| FABLE OF TIE WINDS.
The east wind and the west wind wer,
one day talking with each other, and the
east wind said 10 the west wind: "Don';
YOU wish you had my power? Why,
when start they hail nc by storm.
signals all along the coast. | can twiss
OIL ships mast as easily as a cows
hoof cracks an alder. With one SWEEP
OF my wing L have stre~n the coast from
newfoundland tolkcy West with parted
snip TIMBER. l can lift and have lifted
the Atlantic ocean. l am the terror OF
all lnvalldsn, and to fight me back for.
ests must be cut dow Tor fires, aud the
mines OF continents are called on 10 feed
| the furnaces. Under my breath the ua
tions crouch intoscpulchres. Don'tyou
wish you had my powcr?" said the cas-,
wind.
The west wind made no answer. but
| started on Its mission coming sOmcwhcr,
out OF the rosy bowers of the sky, ana
all tho ri crs and lakes and seas smiled
at its coming. The snrdens bloomed,
and the orchards rip"ncd, and the whca;
fields turned their silver into gold, and
health clappedits hands, and JOY shouted
from the hill tops, aud The nations liltc,.
Their torehcads into the light, and TIN,
earth had Il doXology for the sky, an,.
the sky an anthem for the earth, anG
the warth and the sparkle, and the toll.
age, and the flowers, and the fruits. anG
the beauty, and the lie, were the onl,
answer the west wind made TO the in
science Of the east winds interrogation
! Kindness to all. Surely it ought not t.
be difficult grace to culture when We
see towering above the centuries sucl.
an example that one glimpse ought It.
melt and transform all nations. Kind
ness brought our Lord from heaven.
Kindness omiscrcants, Kindness to per-
stcutors, kindness to the crippled and
the bind, and the catalcptc, and the
leprous, and the dropsical, aud the
dcmOnlacal characterized him ali the
way, and on the cross, kindness To the
bandits suffering on the side of him. and
Kindness to the tXCcutioners while We,
they pushed the spear, and hammered
the spikes, and howled the blasphemics
All the stories OF the John Towards
and the Florence Niyh,inyslcs and the
Grace Darlmgs and the Ida Icwiscs
pale before th:stransccndant example o,
him whose birth and life and death ar,
tue greatest story that the world eve,
heard, and the theme Of the miyhticsi
hosanna that heaven ever lifted. Yea
the very kindness tn Il allo we'd both
hands to be nailed to the horizontal tim.
Der OF the cross with that cruel thump,
thump! now stretches down from tn,
skies those same hands filled with balm
lor all our wounds, forgiveness far al
our crimes. rescue for all our scrsd0ms
AID while we take this matches
klndncss from God, maylL be found tina
we have uttered our last bitter word
written our last cutting paragraph, dom
our last rctalatOry action, ielt our las
rcvengcful heart thrOb. Aud it woul,
not be bad epitaph for any of us if b,
the Grace OF God from this time forth W,
lived such beneiccnt lives that the tomb
stones chisel could appropriately Gu
upon the plain slab that marks our gray,
a suggestion from the text. "IIc shove,
us NJ little Kindness"
But not until the last child Of Goo
has got ashore from the earthly storms
that drove him on the rocks like Med
| ltcrranean EurOclyd0nS, not until all tn,
LnrOnes OF heaven are mounted, and all
the conIuerorS crowned, and all thy
harps and trumpets and organs of heaven
are thaummed or blown or sounded, ant!
the ransOmcd Of all climcs and AGES are
III lull chorus under the jubilant swim
OF angelic batCn, and we shall for thous
anGs ol years have seen the river FROM
under the throne rolling into the "sea 0!
lss min led with fire." and this worl,I
we now inhabiL shall be so far in the
past that only stretch of celcstia
memory can recall that it ever cxlste /
at all, not until then will VIC under stand
what Nehemiah calls 1.-THE great KIND
ness. and David calls "thc marvclou.
klldnces,' and ISAIAH calls "Lhc ever,
lasting kinducss' OF God!