Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1891-09-17
ONLY ONE KIND WORD.
YOU SHOULD NEVER HESITATE
,.-.a-. TO UTTER 1T.
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commercial center, belonging ut diner,
emit times To Phmnicia, 10 Greece, To
Rome, TO Arabia, to Spain, TO France,
now belongs to England. The area OF
the island is about ono hundred square
miles, II is in the Mediterranean Sea,
and of such clarity of atmosphere that
Mount Etna, l3T miles away, can DO
distinctly seen. Tho island IL glori.
ously memorable, because the Knights
OF Malta for u long while ruled there,
but most famous because of the upos'
tolic shipwreclk. The bestormed vessel
on which Paul sailed -had "laid TO"
on the starboard tack and the wind
was blowing east-northcast and the
vessel, drifting, probably u mile and u
half an hour, she struck ut what Ia now
called ST, Paurs bay. Practical sailors
have taken up the biblo account and do
cidod beyond controversy the place OF
the shipwreck, But the island
which has so rough coas,
is for the most part u garden.
Richest fruits and profusion OF
honey characterized 1t In pauls time
rs we'll us now. The finest oranges
figs, aud olives grew there, When
Paul and his comrades crawled up on
the beach, saturated with the salt
water and hungry from long abstin-
euce from food, and chilled to the
bone, the islanders, though called bar.
barians, because they could not speak
Greek, opened their doors TO the
shipwreclScd unfortunatcs. Everything
had gono 10 the bottom of the deep,
and the barefootcd, barchendod npos,
tie and ships crew were in u condition
to appreciate hospitality, About
twenty-five such men few seasons
ago found In tho life station near
Easthampton, Long Island. They
had got ashore in the night from
the sea, and not II hat or shoe had
they left, They found out, as Paul
aud his fcllow-voyngers found out, that
the sea IL tharoughest of all robbera
My text finds tho ships crew ashore
on Malta, and around II hot fire drying
themselves, and with the best pro.
vision the islanders can offer them.
And they go into government quarters
for three days to recuperatc, Publius,
the ruler inviting them, although
no had severe sickness In the
house Mt that time, his father down
with dysentcry and typhoid fever.
Yea, for three months they stayed on
tho island watching for II ship, ana
putting the Inequalities of the island
ers To u severe test. But IL endured
the test satisfactorily, and IL Is record
cd for all the ages of time and eternity
to read and hear In regard To the in
habitants of Malta: The bnrbnrous
people showed us no little kindness"
y There Is il kindness of disposition,
kindness OF word, blindness OF act, and
there Is Jesus Christ tho impersonation
OF all OF them. Kindnessi You cannot
affect IT, you cannot play IL rs IA part,
you cannot enact IL, you cannot dram
attic II. by the grace OF God You must
have IL inside you, an everlasting sum
mcr, or rather combination OF June
and October, the geniality of tho
one and the tonic OF the
other. IL cannot dwell with arrogance
or spite or revenge Or mnlevolencc,
At its first appearance in the soul all
these hmalcltitos and Gergishitcs and
Hittites and Jebusitos must quit, and
quit forever. Kindness wishes rery-
body we'll, every man we'll, every wo-
man 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, nc moro need OF
protective sewing woman's association,
and 10 would dull every sword until IL
would not cut skin deep, and unwheel
every battery till II could not roll, and
make gnnpowdcrof no more use In the
world except for rock blasting or pyro
technic celebration. Kindness is n spir-
IL divinely implanted. and In answer to
prayer, and then 20 be scduously Guilt
vntcd until IL fills all nature with u
perfume richer and more pungent than
mignonettc, and, MS IL you put n tuft of
that aromatic beauty behind the clock
on the muntcl, or in some corner where
nobody can see sit, you find people
walking about your room looking this
way and that and you ask them,
"What are you looking for?" and they
answer, "Whcrc Is that flower?'-So
II one has in his soul this infinite
sweetness Of disposition it's per-
fume will whelm everything.
But are you waiting and hoping for
some one to be banlSrupted or exposed,
or discounted, or in some way over
thrown, then kindness has not taken
possession of your nature. You are
wrecked on Malta where there are
no oranges. You are entertaining n
guest so unlike kindess that kind
ness will not come and dwell un-
der the same roof. The most
exhaustfng and unhealthy and ruin
Gus feeling on earth Is a revengeful
spirit or retaliating spirit, us / know
by experience, for I have tried Il tor
FIVE or ten minutes at time. When
some mean thing has been done me or
said about me, have fnlt II will pay
him in his own coin. will show him
mn. The migrate! The traitorl The
liorl The vilInint, But five or ten min
ntes az tho feeling has heen ca nm.
nerving and e2bousting have
abandoned n and I cannot under
stand how neonle can 90 about tortur.
inc themselves five or ten or twenty
years. trying TO get even with some
Rodv me onIy yvav Won will ever
trinmnb over v9ur enemies ia nv for.
r;uina them and WISHING them al GOOD
and no evil. As malevolence Is the most
nneosv ana nrofItless and DANGEROUS
teeltng, Kihdness is the most
bealthful and delightful.-'And this
is not an abstraction. As Thaye tried
a little of the retaliatory feeling, so |
have tried little of the forgiving. |
do not want to leave this world until
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