Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1891-09-17

But if you are waiting and hoping for
some one to be bankrupted or exposed or
discounted. or in any way overthrown. then
kindness has not taken possession of your
nature. You are wrecked on a Malta
where there are no oranges You are en-
tertaining guest so unlike kindness that
kindness will not come and dwell under
the same roof. The most exhausting and
unhealthy and ruinous feeling on earth is
a reyengeful spirit or retaliating spirit, as
| know by experience, for ! have tried II
five or ten minutes at time. When some
mean thing has been done me or said about
me have felt Il will pay him in his own
coin. | will show him up. The ingratei
The traitori The liari The villainW
But five or ten minutes of the feeling
has been so unnerving and exaausting
that have abandoned il, and cannot I'M
derstand how people can go about tortur-
ing themselves five or ten or twenty years,
irving to get even with somebody The
only way you will ever triumph over your
enemies is by forgiving them and wishing
them all good and no evil. As malevo-
lence is the most uneasy and protitless and
dangerous feeling, kindness is the most
healthful and delightful. And this is not
an abstraction As | have tried a little Of
the retaliation. so have tried a little OF
the forgiying.
do not want TO leave this world until |
have taken vengeance upon every man hat
ever did me wrong by doing him kind
ness. In most of such cases have already
succeeded, but there are few malignants
whom | am yet pursuing, and shall not
becontent until have in some wise helped
them or benefited them or blessed them.
Let US all pray for this spirit OF kindness.
1t will settle Thousand questions. It will
change the phase OF everything 1t will
mellow through and through our entire
nature 1t will transform lifetime. tits
not feeling cotton up for occasions, out
perennial.
That is the reason like petunias better
chan morning glories. They look very
much alike. and II | should put in your
hand petunia and a morning glory you
could hardly tell which is the petunia and
which the morning glory, but the morning
glory blooms only few hours and then
shuts up for the day. while the petunia is
In as widespread glow at twelve o'clock
at noon and six o'clock in the evening as
at sunrise And this grace Of Kindness is
not spasmodic, is not intermittent, is not
for little while. but it irradiates the
whole nature, all through and clear on
till the sunset OF our earthly existence.
Kinduessl am resolved to get ii. Are
you resolved to get itt II does not come by
haphazard. but through culture under the
divine help. Tbistles grow without cul-
ture Rocky mountain sage grass grows
without culture. Mullen stalks grow
without culture But that great red rose
In the conservatory. its leaves packed on
leaves, deep dyed rs though It had been
Obliged to fight for its beauty and it were
still reeking with the carnage Of the battle,
that rose needed TO be cultured, and
through long years its floral ancestors were
cultured. o God, implant kindess in all
our souls, and then give us grace TO watch
il, TO enrich il. to develop itl
The king OF Prussia bad presented &c
him by the empress of Russia the root OF a
rare flower, and II was put in the royal
gardens on an island, and the head gar
dener Herr Fintelmann, was told 10 watch
t. And one day il put forth its glory.
Three days Of every week the people were
admitted TO these gardens, and young
man, probably not realizing what wrong
thing be was doing, plucked this flower
and put it in his huttonhole. and the gar
dener arrested himns he was crossing at the
ferry. and asked the king 20 throw open nc
more his gardens to the public, The king
replied shall deny the thousands OF
| good people of my country the privilege OF
seeing this garden because one visitor has
done wrongf No. let them come and see
the beautiful grounds"
And when the gardener wished 70 give
the king the name Of the offender who had
taken the royal flower. he said, mo, my
memory is very tenacious and do not
want TO have in my mind the name Of the
offender, lest it should hinder me granting
1 him a favor some other time" Now,
want you TO know that kindness is a royal
/ flower. and blessed be God, the King OF
mercy and grace. that by divine gift and
| not by purloining, we may pluck this royal
| flower and not wear il on the outside OF
/ our nature. but wear it in our soul and
wear it forever, its radiance and aroma not
/ more wonderful for time than wonderful
/ for eternity.
KIND WORDS CAN NEVER DIE"
| Still further, must speak Of kindness Of
word When you meet any one do you
say pleasant thing or an unpleasant' Dc
/ You tell him Of agreeable things you have
| heard about him, or the disagreeablei
/ When he leaves you does he feel better OF
does he feel worsei Oh, the power of thu
tongue for the production Of happiness oil
miseryl One would think from the way
/ the tongue is Gagged in we might take the
/ hint that it has 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 ivor,
bars. and then by the teeth of the uppei
jaw, more ivory bars. Then outside OF al
are the two lips with the power of com
preston and arrest, and yet notwithstand
ing these four imprisonments or limita
tions, how many take no hint in regard e
the dangerous power Of the tongue, anc
the results are laceration. sterilization ant
damnation.
There are those If they know goot
/ thing about you and bad thing, will men
ton the bad thing and act as though they
I had never heard the good thing. Now
4 there are two sides to almost every one,
character, and we have the choice Of over
hauling the virtue or the vice. We car
greet Paul aud the ships crew as thel