The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1891-09-24

oASo III ptoFchIlOu VI Cruelty 10 animals, I,
no more need OF protective sewing wo.
mans association, and it would dull
every sword until it would not cut skin
deep, and unwheel every battery till it
could not roll, and make guupowder of
no more use in the world except for
rock blasting or pyrotechnic celebra-
tlOn.
Kindness ls spirit divinely implanted,
and III answer to prayer, aud then to be
sedulously cultivated until it (ills all the
pature with a perfume richer and more
pungent than mign 1nette, and. as il YOU
put tuft of that aromatic beauty behind
the clock on the mantel or in some COR
ner where nobody can see it, you find peo-
pie walking about your room looking
this way and that, and you ask them,
"What arc you looking for?" And they
answer, ''Where is that flower?n So if
one has in his soul this infinite sweet
ness OF disposition its perfume will whelm
everything.
THE EVT rs OF REVENGEFUI. FEELING.
But If you are waiting and hoping tor
some one to be bankrupted or exposed
or dlscomtited, or in any 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 guest
so unlike kindness that Kindness will not
come and dwell under the same roof.
The most exhaustiug and unhea lthy and
ruinous feeling on earth is q revengeful
spirit or retaliating spirit, as know by
experience, for have tried it five or ten
q
thing has been done me or said about
me 1 have felt 81 will pay him in his
own coin. l Will show him up. The
migrated! The traitor! The liar! The
villain!"
But five or ten minutes o. the feeling
has been so unnerving and exhausting
that have abandoned it, and cannot
understand how people can 90 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 profitless and dangerous feel
ing, kindness is the most nealthful and
delightful. And this is not all abstrac.
ton. AS have tried little of the re.
tallatlon, 80 l have tried little of the
forgiving.
l do not want TO leave this world un-
I'll have taken vengeance upon every
man that ever did me wrong by dong
him Kindness. III most Of such cas- es
have already succeeded, but there are
few malignants whom 1 am yet pur.
SUNG, and shall not be content until |
have IN some wise helped them or bene.
fted 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 should put in
your hand petunia and a morning
glory you could hurdly tell which is the
petunio and which the morning glory:
but the morning glory blooms only a few
hours and then shuts up for the day,
while the petunia is IN as widespread q
glow at twelve O'Clock at noon and Six
O'Clock in the evening as a: sunrise.
And this grace of kindness is not spas-
modic, is not intermittent, is not for a
little while, but it irradiates the whole
nature, all through and clear on till the
sunset of our earthly existence.
Kindness! l am resolved to get it.
Are you resolved to get it? It does not
come by haphazard, but through culture
under the divine help. Thlstles grow
without culture. Rocky mountain sage
grass grows without culture. Mullen
stalks grow without culture. But that
great red rose in the conservatory. lis
leaves packed on leaves, deep dyed as
though it had been obliged to fight for
Its beauty and it were still reckng with
the carnage of the battle, that rose need
cd to be cultured, and through long years
its floral ascentors were cultured. o
God, implan. kindness in all our souls,
and then give us grace to watch it, to
enrich it, to develop it!
The king of Prussia had presented to
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 Fintelmann, was told to
watch it. And one day it put forth it's
glory. Three days of every week the
people were admitted to these gardens,
and a young man, probably not realiz-
ng what wrong thing he was doing,
plucked 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 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,
No, my memory is very tenacious and
| do not want to have in my mind the
name OF the offender, lest it should him
der me granting him favor some other
time" 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 purloin-
ing we may pluck this royal llower and
not wear 1t on the outside of our nature,
but wear it in our soul and wear it for
ever, its radiance aud aroma not more
wonderful for time than wonderful for