The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-09-22


rs Yet Uncorrupted. and So the Prompt.
ings of Nature Ruled Them % Kindn.s,
aRoyal Flower of God's Goodness.
BROOKLYN, Sept. 13.-Brooklyr
Tabernacle TO-DAY contained many stran
gers on their way home from the water.
ing places aud foreign lands. Many o.
the members absent from the city dur.
ing the summer were In their places
The church building and the organ, which
have been almost continually under
brush and hammer since the dedication
last spring, are now about completed
The sermons today were full OF congra.
tulation and were attended by the usual
thrOngs. DR. Talmage's morning ser.
mon was on "Kindness," from the text
Acts xviii, 9: "Tlie barEarous people
showed us no little Kindness"
My text puts us on the Island o
Malta, another name for Melita. This
island, which has always been an i'm.
portant commercial center, belonging al
different times to PhGnicin, to Greece,
J to Rome, 10 Arabia, to Spain. to France,
now belongs to England. The area o
the island Is about one hundred square
miles. 1t is in the Mcdlternean sen, and
OF such clarity of atmosphere that Mount
Etna, one hundred and thirty miles
away, can be distinctly seen. The island
is seriously memorable, because the
Knights of Malta for a long while ruled
there, but most famous because of the
apostolic shipwreck.
The bestormed vessel on which Paul
sailed had "laid to" on the starboard
tack. and the wind was blowing east
northeast, and the vessel drifting PROB
ably a mile and half an hour ere she
struck at what's now called st. Paul's
bay. Practical sailors have taken UP
the Bible account and decided beyond
controversy the place of the shipwreck
But the island which has 80 rough q
:oast is Tor the most part garden
Richest fruit aud protusion of honey
characterized it in Paul's time as well
snow. The finest oranges, figs and
lives grow there. When Paul and his
pmrades crawled up on the beach, sat.
rated with salt water and hungry from
ing abstinence from food and chilled tc
,e bone, the islanders though called bar
lrians because they could not speak
teek, opened their doors to the ship.
recked unfortunates.
Everything had gone to the bottom ol
te deep, and the barcfooted, barehcad
eapostle and ships crew were IN con.
dion to appreciate hospitality. About
Twenty-Five such men few seasons age
I>und in the life station near Easthamp
to, Long lslard. They had got ashore
inhe night from the sea, and not a hat
nc shoe had they left. They found
on, as Paul and his fellow voyagers
fond out, that the sea is the roughest o
all robbers. My text finds The ships
GREY ashore on Malta, and around ho
firedrying themselves, and with the bes
prGision the islanders can offer them
md they go into government quarters
Tor ,hree days to recuperate, Publius
thculer, inviting them, although he hat
sevGe sickness in the house at tha
time-hs father down with dysentery
and typhoid fever. Yea, for three
monhs they staid on the island watch
ing for ship and putting the hospltali
ties Of the islanders to severe test
But hey endured the test satisfactorily
and l. ls recorded tor all the ages oftimt
and eternity to read and hear in regart
TO the inhabitants Of Malta, "The bar
barols people showed us no little kind
ness"
BIBLE EXAMPLES OF KINDNESS.
Kindness! What q great word that is
1t would take a reed as long as tha
which the apocalyptc angel used tC
measure heaven to tell The length, the
breadth, the height of that munlliccn
word. 1t is iavorlte Bible word an(
it is early launched IN the book of Gen
esis, caught up IN the book of Joshua
embracedin the book of Samuel, crownc,
in the book of Psalms, and enthroned ir
1,n
Kindness a word no moro gentle thar
mighty. expect it will wrestle mt
down before get through with it. Iii.
But 1t will be well for us to stand arount
it, and warm ourselves by its glow az
Paul and his fellow vOyagcrs stoot
arouna the fire on the Island of Malta
where the Maltese made themselves i'm
mortal in my tcXt by the way they treat
ed these victims of the sea. 1.-The bar
barous people showed us no little kind
ness.O
Kindness! All definitions of tha
multipotent word break down hall way
You say it is clemency, benignity, gel,
erosity; IL is made up OF good wishes, il
is an expression of benelicence, it is
Some one else says: HWhy, | Gun civ,
you definition of kindness: I'll sun
shine of the soul, it is affection perennial
1t is crowning grace. it is the com
bination ofall graces, 1t is compassion
it Is the perfection of gentle manlincs.
and womanliness." Are you all through
You have made dead failure in you
definition. 1t cannot be defined. Blu
we all know what it is, for we all felt 1t.
power. Some Of you may have felt it al
Paul felt it, on some coast of rock al
the ship went to pieces, but more OF us
have again and again in some awiu
stress of life had either from earth o.
heaven hands stretched out, which
''showed us no little Kindness"
There is kindness of disposition, kind
ness Of word, kindness of act, and ther,
is Jesus Christ, the impersonation of al
of them. Kindness! You cannot allec
1t, YOU cannot play ii as part, you can
not enact it. you cannot dramatize it
BY the grace of God you must have i
inside you, an everlasting summer, O.
rather combination OF June and Octo
Der, the genlality of the one and tn,
tonic OF the other. 1t cannot dwell will
arrogance or spite orrevenge or maicvo
lence. At it's first appearance in th
soul all these Amalekites and Gerglshite
and Hittites and Jebusites must quit
and Ouit forever