Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-09-14

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dramatize IT, BY the grace OF God.
you must have It inside you. an ever
lasting summer. OF rather a combina-
tion of June and October. the geniality
Of one and the tonic of the other. II
cannot dwell with arrogance or spite OF
revenge or Inalevolence At its first
appearance In the soul all these Anal
elSites and Gergishites and llittites and
Jebusites must quit. and quit forever.
Kindness wishes everybody we'll
every man well, every woman well.
every child well, every bird well, every
horse well. every dog well. every cat
well. Give this spirit full swing and you
would have no more need Of societies
for prevention Of cruelty to animals
no more need Of protective sewing WON
ans associations. and il would dun every
sword until 1t would not cut skin deep.
and inwheel every battery till it could
not roll. and make gunpowder of no
more use in the world except for rock
blasting or pyrotechnic celebration.
Kindness is spirit divinely inplant-
cd, and in answer to prayer. and then
60 be sedulously cultivated until il fills
all the nature with perfume richer
and more pungent than mignonette,
aud, as II you put tuft of that arc
matte beauty behind the clock ON the
mantel. or in some corner where no
body can see IT, you find people walk
ing about your room looking this way
and that. and you ask them, What
are you looking forr' and they answer,
Where Is that fiowerf' So II one has
in his soul this infinite sweetness of dis
position. its perfume viii wheim every
thing.
TRUR KINDNESS IS PERENNIAL
But il you are waiting and hoping for
some one to be bankrupted or exposed
or discounted or in some way over
thrown. then kindness has not taken
possession of your nature. You are
wrecked on a Malta where there are no
oranges You are entertaining a guest
so unlike kindness that kindness viii
not come and dwell under the same
roof The most exhausting and un-
healthy and ruinous feeling on earth is
a rcvengeful spirit or retaliating spirit
as | know by experience, for / have
tried il for five or ten minutes at time.
When some mean thing has been done
me or said about me, have felt: II
will pay him in his own coin. will
show him up. The ingratel The traitorl
The liari The villainp
But five or ten minutes of the feeling
has been so unnerving and exhausting
have abandoned it, and cannot I'M
derstand how people can go about tor
turing themselves FIVE or ten OF twenty
years, trying to get even with some
body. The only way you viii ever tri-
umph over your enemies is by forgiving
them and wishing them all good and
no evil. As malevolence is the most
uneasy and proiitless and dangerous
feeling, kindness Is the most healthful
and delightful. And this is not alb
ssraction As have tried little of
the retaliation, so have tried little
Of the forgiving
do not want TO leave this world
until | have taken vengeance upon
every man that ever did me a wrong
by doing him kindness. In most of
such cases have already succeeded,
but there are few malignants whom !
am yet pursuing and shall not be
content until | have in some wise
helped them or benefited them or
blessed them. Let us pray for this
spirit OF kindness. 1t viii settle a
thousand questions 1t win change
the phase Of everything. II will mel
low through and through our entire
nature. II will transform lifetime.
Il is not feeling gotten up for occa-
sions. but perennial
That Is the reason | like petunias
better than morning glories. They look
very much alike. and II should put in
your hand petunia and 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 tho evening as
at sunrise. And this grace of kindness
is not spasmodie, is not intermittent, Il
not for a little while, but il irradiates
the whole nature all through and
clear on till the sunset of our earthly
existence.
kindnessl | am resolved to get it.
Are you resolved TO get 1T II does moi
come by haphazard, but through cul
turo under the divine help Thistlei
grow without culture. Rocky noun
tain sago grass grows without culture
Mullen stalks grow without culture
But that great red rose In the eonser
vatory, its leaves packed ON leaves
deep dyed as though il had beeI
obliged TO fight for its beauty and !
were still reeking with the carnage o
the battle, that rose needed 10 be eul
tnred and through long years It's fora
ancestors were cultured. o God, ian
plant kindness In all our souls AM
then give us grace 20 watch il, 10 en-
rich Il, 10 develop itl
The king Of Prussia had presented .
him by the empress Of Russia the roc
of a rare dover. and il was put In III
royal gardens ON an island and IN
head gardener, Herr Fintelmann, va
told 10 watch it, and one day il pu
forth lis glory. Three days NJ ever
week the people were admitted 20 thes
gardens, aud a young man, pFobabl
not realizing what a wrong thing 1
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