The Red Cloud chief., 1891-09-25
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them or blessed them. Let Us all pray
for this spirit of kindness. II will set
tie thousand questions 1t will change
the phase of everything. 1t will mel
low through and through our entire
nature. It will transform a lifetime.
II is not a feeling gotten up for occa-
sions, but perennial That is the reason
like petunias better than morning
glories They look very much alike,
and if ! should put in your hand a
p~etunia and q morning glory you could
hardly tell which is the petunia and
which the morning glory; but the morn
ing glory blossoms only a few hours
and then shuts up for the day. while
the petunia is in as widespread a glow
at twelve o'clock at noon and six o'clock
in the evening As at sunrise. And this
grace of kindness is not ~spasmodic,
is not intermittent is not for a little
while, but il irradiates the whole ma
ture, all through and clear on till the
sunset of our earthly existence Kind
ness. am resolved 4 get it. Are you
resolved TO get it? 1t does not come by
haphazard, but through culture under
the divine help.
The king of Prussia had presented to
him by the empress Of Russia the root
of a rare flower. and il was put in the
royal gardens on an island and the
head gardener, Herr Fintelmann, was
told 70 watch IL And m day it put
forth its glory. Three days of every
week the people were admitted 20 these
gardens, and a young man probably
pot realizing what a wrong thing he
was doing. plucked this flower and put
il Ia his button-hole, 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 replied: shall deny to the
thousands of good people of my
country the privilege of seeing this
garden because one visitor has done
wrongP No, let them come and see
the beautiful grounds" And when the
gardener wished 70 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
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granting him a favor some other time. "
Now, | want you To know hat kind
ness is n royal flower, and blessed be
God, the King of mercy and grace, that
by a divine gift and, not by purloining,
we may pluck this royal flower and
not wear il on the outside of our
nature, but wear il in our soul and
wear il forever. its radiance and aroma
not more wonderful for time than
wonderful for eternity.
Still further, ] must speak of kind
ness of word. When you meet any one
do you say a pleasant thing or an I'M
pleasant? DO you tel him of agreeable
things o have heard about him, or
the d~isagreeble? When he leaves you,
does he feel better or does ne feel
worse? o, the power of the tongue for
the production of happiness or misery,
One would think from the way the
tongue is Gagged in we might take the
hint that il has n dangerous power.
There are those if they know a good
thing about you and a bad thing will
mention the bad thing and act as though
they had never heard the good thing.
Now there are two sides TO almost
every ones character, and We have
the choice of ~overhauling the virtue
or the vice. We can greet Paul and
the ships crew as they come up
the beach of Malta with the words,
What n sorry looking set you are,
How little of navigation you must
know to run on these rocks. Didn't
, you know better han to put out on the
= Mediterranean this wintry month? j,
was not much of a ship anyhow, or II
would not have gone to pieces SO soor
as that. Well, what do you want? We
have hard enough work TO make a liv
&. ing for ourselves without having thrus'
on us go ragamufians" Not 81 SAID
the Maltese. | think they said: Come
4 in. Sit down by the fire and warm your
selves, Glad that you all got off with
. your lives. Make yourselves ut home
: You are welcome to all that we hav,
until some ship m in sight and yo,
resume your voyage Here, let IN
put a bandage on YOU forehead, 70
that is an ugly cash you got from thu
u floating timbers, and here is a mai
I With a broken arm. We will have
doctor come 10 attend TO this fracture.
q Ard, though for three months tn
o kindness went on, we have but littl,
q mo re than this brief record: 'Th'
bar barous people showed us no littl'
: kindness"
o oh. say the cordial thing, Say TIT
useful thing. Say the hospitablc thing
Say the helpful thing! Say the Christ
like thing. Say the kind thing ! ad
n NIT that this is easier for some temper
aments than for others some are borl
pessimists, and some are born optimists
e and that demonstrates itself all througl
n everything. 1t Is a cloudy morning
l. You meet a pessimist and you say
l. What weather to-day" Ne answers
Its going TO storm" and umbrell
= under arm and a waterproof overcoa
D show that he is honest in hat utter
& ance. On the same block. a minut
d after. you meet an optimist and you say
r. What weather to-day" Good wealth
Y er; this is only a fog and will O scat
Y ter" The absence of umbrella and al
e sence of waterproof overcoat show il
Al an honest utterance. On your way a
ID noon 10 luncheon you meet an optimis
d merchant and you say: What do yo
y think of the commercial prospects?
-e and he says. glorious Great crop
ii must bring great business We ar
ID going Ia have such an autumn an
winter of prosperity Is we hav
re never seen" On your way back Z
Ia your store you. meet a pessimistlc me-
&c chant What do you think of the con
merciai prospects," you ask. And h
n answers: Well, l don't know. ;
"a much grain will surfeit the country
il Farmers have more bushels but les
prices, and the grain gamblers will g
n their fist in. There Is the Mckinle
n bill: and the hay crop Is short in som
places and in the southern part of Wi.
cousin they had a hailstorm and GU
k business is as dull as i; ever vas" 70
will find the same difference in judo
" ment of character. A nan Of goo
r reputation is assailed and charged wit
as some evil deed At the first story IN
e paSSin;S, will haljava in ruilt "Th