The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1891-09-22
the clock on the mantel or in some cor.

pie walking about your room looking
this way and that, and you ask them,
"What are you looking for?" Aud they
answer, "Where Is that flower?" So If
one has in his soul this infinite sweet
ness of disposition its perfume will whelm
everything.
THE EVILS OF REvENGEFUI. FEELING.
But If you are waiting and hoping tor
some one to be bankrupted or exposed
or dlscomfited, or in any way over
thrown, then kindness has not t.ken
possession of your nature. You are
wrecked on Malta where there are no
oranges. You are entertaining q guest
so unlike kindness that kinkness will not
come and dwell under the same roof.
The most eXhausting and unhea lthy and
ruinOus feeling on earth is revengeful
spirit or retaliating spirit, as l know by
experience, for have tried 1t five or ten
minutes at time. When some meen
thing has been done me or said about
me have felt II will pay him in his
own coin. l will show him up. The
migrated! The traitor! The liar! The
yillain!'
But five or ten minutes OF the feeling
has been 80 unnerving and exhausting
that have abandoned it, and L cannot
understand how people can go about
torturlng themselves five or ten or twen-
ty years, trying to get even with some
body. The only way you will ever
triumph over your enemies is by forgiv-
ing them and wishing them all good and
no evil. AS malevolence is the most
uneasy and prolitless and dangerous feel
ing, kindness Is the most nealthful and
delightful. And this is not ali abstrac-
ton. AS have tried little of the re.
taliation, 80 have tried a little Of the
forgiving.
do not want to leave this world un-
til have taken vengeance upon every
man that ever did me wrong by dong
him kindness. In most of such cases
l have already succeeded, but there are
a few malignants whom 1 am yet pur-
smng, and shall not be content until
have IN some wise helped item or bene.
flied them or blessed them. Let us all
pray for this spirit of kindness. II will
settle a thousand questions. 1t will
change the phase of everything. 1t vii!
mellow through and through our entire
nature. II will transform lifetime. 1t
is not feeling gotten up fer occasions,
but perennial.
That is the reason like petunias bet
ter than morning glories. They look
very much alike, and if l should put in
your hand petunia and q morning
glory you could hnrdly tell which is the
petuni" 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 rs widespread q
glow at twelve O'Clock at noon and Six
O'Clock in the evening as az sunrise.
And this grace of kindness is not spas
modic, is not intermittent, is not for q
little while, but it irradiates the whole
nature, all through and clear on till the
sunset of our earthly existence.
Kindness! 1 am resolved to get it.
Are you resolved to get it? 1t does not
come by haphazard, but through culture
under the divine help. Thlstles grow
without culture. Rocky mountain sage
grass grows without culture. Mullen
stalk, grow without culture. But that
great red rose in the conservatory. its
leaves packed on leaves, deep dyed as
though it had been obliged to fight for
Its beauty and it were still reeking with
the carnage of the battle, that rose need
ed to be cultured, and through long years
its floral ascentOrs were cultured. o
God, implant kindness in all our souls,
and then give us grace to watch it, to
enrich it, to develop it!
The king of Prussia he'd presented to
him by the empress of Russia the root
of rare flower, and 1t was put in the
royal gardens on an island, and the head
gardener, Herr Fintelmann, was told 70
watch it. And one day it put forth its
glory. Three days of every week the
people were admitted to these gardens,
and young man, probably not realiz-
ng what wrong thing he was doing,
pluckcd this flower and put it in his but.
tonhole, and the gardener arrested him
as he was crossing at the ferry, and
asked the king to throw open no more
his gardens to the public. The king re-
piled: "Shall deny the thousands OF
good people of my country the privilege
of seeing this garden because one visitor
has done wrong? No, let them come
and sec 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 memory is very tenacious and
do not want to have in my mind the
name Of the offender, lest it should hin
der me granting him favor some other
tlme." Now, want you 10 know that
kindness is a royal flower. and blessed
be God, the King of mercy and grace,
that by divine gift and not by purlon.
ing, we may pluck this royal flower and
not wear it on the outside Of our nature,
but wear it in our soul aod wear it for
ever, Its radiance aud 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 unpleas-
ant? Doyou tell hlm of agreeable things
} you have heard about him, or the disa.
J greeable? When he leaves you does he
J feel better or does he feel worse? Oh,
J the power Of the tongue for the produc-
ton of fhappiness or misery! One would
think from the way the tongue is Gagged
IN we might take the hint that it has q
dangerous power. First. it is chained
: to the back of the mouth by strong mus.
cles. Then it is surrounded by the teeth
OF the lower jaw, 80 many ivory bars,
and then by the teeth of the upper law,
: more ivory bars. Then outside of ali
are the two lips with the power of com.
preston and arrest, and vet notwith.
standing these four imprisonments OF
: limitations, how many take no hint in
regard TO the dangerous power of the
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