Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-17
Rev. DR.. Talmage's Sunday
Morning Sermon in Brooklyn.
LESSONS FROM KINDNESS.
The Power of the Tongue for the Production OF
Happiness or Misery.
The Petunia and Morning Glory Serve to
Illustrate His Ideas of Spasmodic
and Continual Bindness-Ths
Sermon in Full.
KINDNESS.
Special 20 the Gazette.

on Their way NOME iEOi4 INC wa m
places and foreign lands. Many of the
members, absent from the city during the
summer, We're in their places. The church
building and the organ, which have almost
continually been under brush and hammer
since the dedication last spring, are now
about completed. The sermons to-day Were
full Of cOugratulatiOn and were attended by
the usual throngs; Dr. Ialmage.s morning .llIlt
sermon wa on Kindness from the text,
Acts xviii, .: 1.-The barbarous people
showed us no little kindness
Here we are on the island of Malta. an
other name for Mclita This island which
has always been an important com
mercial center, belonging at differ
eat times 10 PhrEicia, 10 Greece,
10 Rome, to Arabia. to Spain, 10
France. now belongs 70 England. The area
Uf the island is about one hundred square
miles T. is in the Mediterranean sea, ana
Of such clarity Of atmosphere that Mt
Etna one hundred and thirty miles away.
en- be distinctly seen. The island IS
plOriously memorable, because The
knights of Malta for a long while ruled
there, but most famous because OF the
APOSTOLIC sHIPwRECR.
The bestormcd vessel on which Paul sailed
had laid 10" on the starboald tack, and the
wind was blowing cast-nOrtheast and the
vessel drifting, probabl mile ana a
half an hour. She struck At what IS now
called St. PaUl'S bay. Practical sailors
have taken up the Bible account and decided
beyond controversy the place Of the ship
wreck But the island which has 50 rough
q coast is for the most part Il garden.
Richest fruits and profusion OF honey
characterized il in st. PautS time as well
as now. The finest oranges, figs and olives
grow there. When Paul and his comrades
crawled up on the beach, saturated with
The salt water. and hungry from long ab-
Btiueucc from food, and chilled 10 the bone.
the islanders. though called Ddrbarlans, be
cause they could not speak Greek oneneu
their doors 10 the ShipWrccked uufOrtu-
naies. Everything had gone 10 the bottom
OF the deep, and the barctooted. bare
headed apo tie and ships crew We're III Il
condition 10 appreciate hospitality. About
twenty five such men few seasons ago
found in the life station near EaSthampton
Long Island. They had got ashore Ill the
night from the sea, ana not 4 hat CT shoe
had they left. They found out. As Paul and
his fe!IOw-voyagers found out. that the sea
3 the toughest OF ali robbers. My text
finds the ships crew ashore on Malta, and
ground hot fire drying themselves, and
with
THE BEST PROVISION
the islanders can offer them. And they
60 into government quarters for three days
to recuper;lte. PubliuS. the ruler, inviting
thcm although he had severe sickness in
he house Al that time, his father down
with dysenIrry and typhoid fever Yea.
for three months they stayed on the island
watching for ship and putting the hosp!-
ra!i,ieS of the islanders 10 a severe test.
But i endured the test satisfactorily, aud
il is recorded 70" al the ages of time and
eternity 10 read aud hear in regard To the
inhabitants Of Malta: The barbarous peO-
pie showed us no little kindness.
Kindness What great word that is.
\ s-l-s
the apocalyptic angel used TO measure
heaven to tell the length, the breadth, the
height of that muuitcent word. 1t IS a
favorite Bible word. and it is early launched
in the book of Genesis, caught up in the
book OF Joshua. embraced in the look of
Ruth, sworn by in the book Samuel,
crowned in the book of Psalms, and en-
throned in many places in the new Testa-
mcut. Kindness. \ word no more gentle
than mighty. ] expect it
Will wRESTI.E NE DOWN
before l get through with it. ii is strong
enough TO throw an archangcl. But il
will be well foI u 20 stand around it, and
warm ourselves ny its glow as Paul and his
fellow voyagrrS stood around the fire on the
island of Malta, where the Maltese made
themselves immortal in my text by the way
they treated these victims of the sea. The
barbarous people showed us no little kind
ness.
kindness, All definitions of that multi
potent word break down half WAY lou
Say il Is clemcucy bcniCnity, generosity; it
IS made up Of good wishes, II is an express
sion Of beneticence, it is contribution to
The happiness OF others. Some one else
says. why, I can give You a definition Of
kindness: il is sunshine III the soul 1t is
aflertion perennial, it IS a ClimactCriC grace.
Il is the combination of Al! graceS. II is
II IS the perfection of gentle
,.,TT
rhroughf You have made dead failure in
your definition. 1t cannot DE defined. But
we al know what il Is. for we all felt its
power. Some of you may have felt il as
'aul felt il. on some coast of rock as the
ship Went Ia pieces. buj moro Of Us have
L gain and again in some awful stress of life !
lad either from earth or heaven hands |
,re'rhr1 ul,t. which
SHOWED - No LITTLE KINDNESS"
There is kndursS oi disposition. kindness !
u word. kindness of act. and there is Jesus |
hri~t 'Ne nper~n nation of all of them.
Kindness Nuu cannot affect T.. YOU can
Lot PLAY It ~ a part. YOU cannot enact il. .
on cannot dramatic il. BY The grace of |
,ad lou mus have il inside YOU. an ever |
lasting summer. or rather combination uf |
Iuue ami October, the scniaity of the tue |
and n" tonic of the other II cannot dwell |
4. in arrogance or - ..tC or revenge or male |
Violence At It's first appearance in the soul |
all jhrse AmalckIteS and GergishltcS aud |
liit1itrS AND jchGSitcS must quit. and quit |
forever kjuducs> wishes everybody well. |
every man well. every woman well. every |
hid wei. every bird well. every horse |
ao-.. every dog well. every cat well Give |
his spirij iUH swing and NOD would have |
ln more need of societies for prevention of |
,,ar.,y - animals. no more need of pro |
eUt,yr sewing womau's association. and i |
would d.. every sword until Il would not |