Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1891-09-25

day II put forth its glory. Three days OF
every week the people were admitted to
these gardens, and young man, probably not
realizing what a wrong thing he was doing,
plucked this flower aud put Il in his button
hole, and the gardener arrested him as he
was crossing at the ferry, and asked the
king TO throw open no more bis gardens to
the public. The king replied; "Shall deny
the thousands of good people Of my country
the privilege Of seeing this garden because
ore 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 aud do not want
TO have in my mind the name Of the Offend
or, lest it should hinder me granting him a
favor some other time" Now. | want you
to know that kindness is "A royal flower, aud
blessed be God, the King OF mercy and
grace, that by divine gift and not by pur.
loining, we may pluck this royal flower and
not wear il on the outside OF our nature,
but wear 1t In our soul and wear ii forever
ITS radiance and aroma not more wonderful
for time than wonderful for eternity.
Still further, | must speak of kindness OF
word. When you meet any one do you say
pleasant thing or an unpleasanty Do YOU
tell him of agreeable things you have heard
about him, or the disagrccabley When he
leaves you does he feel better or does he feel
worse! Oh, the power of the tongue for the
production of happiness or misery! One
would think from the way the tongue is
taged in we might take the hint that It has a
dangerous power. First, it is chained to the
back of the mouth by strong muscles. Then
il is 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 compression and arrest, and yet
notwithstanding these four imprisOnments
or limitations, how many take no hint in
regard 10 the dangerous power Of the tongue,
and the results are laceration, sterilization
and dsmnatiOn.
There are those if they know good thing
about YOU and bad thing, will mention tha
bad thing and act as though they had never
heard the good thing Now there are two
sides to almost every ones character, and we
have the choice of ovcrhauIing the virtue or
the vice. We can greet Paul and the ships
crew as they came up the beach of Malta
with the words: What a sorry looking set
you are. How little OF navigation you must
know 10 run on these rocks! DIDN'T you
know better than to put out on the Mediter-
rancan this wintery month? Ii was not
much ofa ship anyhow, or itwould not have
gone to pieces as soon as that. Well, what
do YOU wanty We have hard enough work
to make living for ourselves, without hay-
Ing thrust ON Us two hundred and seventy.
SIX ragamuiiin>.'
Not so said the Maltese. | think they said !:
Come I'M Sit down by the fire and warm
yourselves, Glad that you all got Off with
your lives. Make yourselves ut home. You
are welcome to all we have until some ship y
comes in sight and yOu resume your voyage
Here, let me put bandagc on your forehead
for that is All ugly cash you got from the
floating timOcrs, ana here is a man with q
broken arm. We will have = doctor come 10
attend to this fracture" And though for
three months the kindness went on, we
have but little more than this brief record
The barharous people showed Us no little
! Kindness
Oh. say the cordial thing. Say the useful
thing! Say the hospitablc thing! Say the
helpful thing say the Christlke thing Say
the kind thing | admit that this y easier
for some tcmpcraments than for others
Some are born pessimists, and some are born
optimists, and that demonstrates itself all
through everything. 1t is cloudy morning.
You meet pessimist and you say, "What
weather today He answers, Its going 10
storm" and umbrella under arm and a
waterproof oVercOat show that he ia honest
in that ptterance. On the same block, q
minute after, you meet an optimist, and you
saw "What weather today" Good wealth
er; this is only fog and will soon scatter"
The absence OF umbrella and absence OF
waterproof Overcoat show 1t Is an hohest
utterance.
On your way at noon to luncheon you
meet an optimistic merchant and you say,
what do you think Of the commercial
( prospects, and he says: "Glorlous, Great
crops must bring great business. We are
going TO have such an autumn and winter of
prosperity as we have never SEEN" On your
way back to your store you meet pcssimstic
merchant. "What do YOU think of the COM
mercal prospects" YOU ask. And he an
swer>: "Wcll, don't know. So much grain
will surfeIt the country. Farmers have more
bushels but less prices, and the grain gam
, blcrs will get their fist in. There is the
Mckinley bill, and the hay crop is short in
some places, and in the southern part Of
! Wisconsin they had hailstorm, and our busi-
| as duh as il ever was.n You will find the
.ame difference in judgment OF character. A
man OF good reputation Is assailed and
charged with some evil deed. At the first
story the pcssimist will believe in guilt.
The papers said so, and that's enough.
/ Down with him. =.
word OF il. ! don't think that man that
has been as useful and seemingly honest for
twenty years could have got off the track
like that There arc two sides to this story,
snd will wait 10 hear the other side before
condemn him." My hearer, II you are by
nature pessimist, make q special effort by
The grace OF God to cXtirpate the dolorous
and the hypercritical from your disposition.
Believe nothing against anybody until the
wrong is established by at least two witnesses
of integrity, And il guilt be proved, find out
he extcnuating circumstances II there are
luv.
BY pen, by voice, in public and IN private
say all the good about people you can think
II, and il there be nothing good, then tighten
he chain OF muscle on the back end of your
tongue and keep the ivory bars of teeth on
the lower jaw and the ivory bars Of teeth on
the upper jaw locked and the gate Of your
lips tightly closed and your tongue shut up
What place Brooklyn would be to live
in, aud all the other cities and height or
hoods to live in, IL charity dominated What
Il all the young and old gosSipers were dead
The Lord hasten their funerals What If III,
tltte-tattlCn and whispering were out Of fash
ionr What II in Ciphcring out the value q
other peoples character IN our moral arith
mctlc, we stuck to addition instead Of su b
tractiOn2 KindnesSl Let us morning, moor
and night pray for 1t until we get it, Wher
you can speak good word for some on,
speak Il. II you can conscCntiousiy Civ,
etter of commendaton, give II. Watch 70
opportunities for doing good llfty year
after you are dead.
Furthermore there Is Kindness Of action
That is what William Cowpcr recognizes
when he said nc would not trust man VIII
would with his foot nccdlcssly crush worm
That is what our asSassnatcd Prcsidcn
Lincoln demonstrated when his private sec
rotary found him In the capitol grounds try
ing to get bird back to the nest nom whc
II had fallen, and which quality the illus
trlous man exhibited years bcfdrc, whcl
having with some lawyers In the carriage oi
the way to court passed on the road a swim
fast IN the mirc, after awhile cried to hi
! horses, "How aud said 10 tho gentlemen
"lmust go back and help that hog out of th
| mirc.' Aud hc did 30 back and put on soli,
ground that most unintcrcSting QuNdrupcd
suppose nll this assemhlNgc, and oil {
whom these words shall como hy printer
type, should resolve to make kmdncss a
overarching, mdcrgriling aud at porvat