The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1891-09-25

tc6in&, 50 nave trteQ y little Oh TIE
forgiving. lido not want to leave this
world until / have taken vengeance
upon every man that ever did me 9
wrong, by doing him . kindness.
In most such cases l hsve already
succeeded. but there are few mali.-
nants whom am yet pursuing, and
shall not be content until have in
some wise helped them or benefited
them or blessed them. Let Us all pray
for this spirit Of kindness. 1t will set
tie q thousand questions. It will change
the phase of everything. 1t will mel
low through and through our entire
nature. It will transform q lifetime.
1t is not feeling gotten up for occasions
but perennial. That is the reason ]
like petunias better than morning
glories. They look very much alike,
and il should put into your hand a
petunis and morning glory you could
hardly tell which is the petunia and
which is the morning glory; but the
morning glory blooms only few hours
and then shuts up for the day, while
the petpnis is in as wide spread a
bloom at IL o'clock at noon and at G
O'Clock in the evening as at sunrise.
And this grace of kindness is not spas
| modic, is not intermittent. is not for a
little while, but it irradicates the
whole nature, all through and clear on
till the sunset OF our earthly existence.
Kindness! | am resolved to get IL Are
you resolved to get it? 1t does not
come by haphazard, but through cul-
ture under the divine help. Thistles
grow without culture. Rocky noun
l foir VII
Mullen stalks grow without culture.
But that gresd red rose in the conserva-
tory, its leaves packed on leaves, deeD
dyed as though it had been obliged to
fight for its beauty and it were still
ieeking with the carnage OF the battle,
that rose needed TO be cultured and
through long years its floral ancestors
were cultured. o. God. implant kind
ness in all our souls, and then give us
grace to watch it. to enrich it. to de-
velop it.
The king OF Prussia had presented 70
him by the empress OF Russia the root
OF rare flower. and it was put in the
royal gardens on an island and the head
gardener, Herr Fintelmaun, was told to
~ater It, And one day it put forth its
glory. Three days of every week the
people we're admitted to these gardens,
and q young man, probably not really
ing what q wrong thing he was doing,
plucked this flower and put it in his
buttonhole, and the gardner arrested
arrested him as he was crossing at the
ferry, and asked the king to throw
open no more his gardens to the pub
lie. The king replied: "Shall I deny
to the thousands of good people OF my
country the privilege OF seeing this gar
den because one 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: mo, my men,
ory is very tenacious. and do not want
to have in my mind the name of the Of
fender, lest it should hinder me grant
ing favor some other time" Now, l
want ' GU to know that kindness is a
royal flower. and blessed be God, the
King OF mercy and grace, that by d.
vine gift and, not by purloining, We
may pluck this royal flower and not
wear it on the outside of our nature,
but wear it in our soul and wear it for
forever, its radiance and aroma not
more wonderful for time than wonder
full for eternity.
One would think from the way b
tongue is Gagged in we might take the
hint that it has a dangerous power
First ii is chained to the back part Of
the mouth by strong muscle. Then 10
is surrounded by the teeth Of the lower
jaw, so mans ivory bars; and then by
the teeth of the upper Jaw, more .vory
bars Then outside of all are the two
lips with the power of compression and
arrest. And yet Notwithstanding these
four imprisonments OF limitations how
many take no hint in regard 30 the dan
gerous power of the tongue and the re-
suits are laceration, scaritication and
damnatIon. There are those if they
know a good thing about you and bad
thing will mention the 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 Overhauling the vir-
tue or the vice. We can greet Paul
and the ships crew as they come up the
beach of Malta. with the words, What
a sorry looking set YOU are, How little
of navigation you must know to run on
these rocks! Didn't you know better
than to put out on the Mediterranean
this wintry month? II WAS not much
OF ship anyhow. or it would not have
gone to pieces so soon as that Well.
what do you want? We have hard
enough work to make living for our
selves. without having thrust on us the
2I6 ragauuffins." Not so said the NAL
tese. think they said: Come in. Sit
down by the fire and warm yourselves.
Glad that you all got of with your
lives. Make yourselves at home. You
are welcome to all we have until some
ship comes in sight and you resume
your voyage. Here. let me put a band
age on your forhead. for that is an ugly
cash you got from the floating timbers,
and here is man with a broken arm.
We will have a doctor come to attend
to this fracture And, though for
three months the kindness went on. we
have but little more than this brief rec
ord: The barbarous people showed US
no little kindness"
Strange sensation was it when / re-
ceived a kind message from Rev. Thorn
as Guard of Baltimore. tie great Meth
odist orator. six weeks after his death.
By way of the eternal world? o. no,
by way OF this world. I did not meet
the friend to whom he gave the message
until nearly two months after Thomas
Guard had assembled. So you can start
a word about some one that will be on
its travels and vigorous long after the
funeral psalm has been sung at your OBJ
sequies. Kindness, Why. If fifty men
sill aglow with il should walk through
the lost world, metnInks they would al
most abolish perdition.
Furthermore, there is kindness of &C
ton That is what Joseph showed to
his outrageous brothers. That is what
David showed 70 Mephiboshetn for his