The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1891-09-17

SAXON N penianryr II we cannot sen
have q millennium ON a large scale, le;
us have i ON small scale. and under
our Own ves.lnentx Kindnessi II this
wo-id Is ever brought TO God that l.
the thing that wilt DO IL You cannot /
fret the world up, although you may
fret the world down You cannot scold
it into excellence or reformation or god
illness
The east wind aud the west wind
were one day talking with each other,
and the east wind said To the west
wind Don't you wish you had my
powers Why, when | start they hail
me by stolm signals all along the coast
| can twist off q ships mast as easily AZ
a cows hoof cracks an alder. With
one sweep of my wing l have strewn
the coast from Newfoundland 10 Key
West with parted ship timber. / can
lift and have lifted the Atlantic ocean.
am the terror of all invalidism. and
to fight me back forests must be cut
down for fires, and the mines of con
tinents are called on to feed the fur
naces. Under my breath the nations
crouch into sepulchers. Don't you
wish you had my powerf said the east
wind.
The west wind made no answer. but
started on its mission. coming some
where out of the rosy bowers of the
sky, and all the rivers and lakes and
seas smiled at its coming. The gardens
bloomed, and the orchards riDened,
and the wheat fields turned their silver
into gold, and health clapped its hands,
and Joy shouted from the hllltops, and
the nations lifted their foreheads into
the light, and the earth had doxol-
ogy for the sky, and the sky an anthem
| for the earth, and the warmth, and the
| sparkle, and the giadness, and the
foliage, and the flowers, and the fruits.
and the beauty, and the life were thu
only answer the west wind made to
the insolence of the east winds inter
rogation.
JOHN HOWARD, FLORENCE NIGHrIN
GALE AND IDA LEWIS.
Kindness to all Surely it ought not
to be difficult grace to culture when
We see towering above the centuries
such an example that one glimpse of it
ought to melt and transform all ma
tons Kindness brought our Lord
| from heaven Kindness to miscreants,
kindness to prosecutors. kindness to the
crippled, and the blind, and the cata-
leptic, and the leprous, and the drop
steal, and the demoniacal characterized
him all the way, and on the cross.
kindness to the the bandits suffering on
the side of him, and kindness to the
executioners while yet they pushed the
spear, and hammered the spikes. and
howled the blaspheInies.
All the stories of the John Towards
and the Florence Nightingales, and the
Grace Darlings, and the Ida Lewises
pale before the traIascendent example
of him whose birth and life and death
are the greatest story that the world
ever heard, and the theme of the
mightiest hosanna that heaven ever
lifted Yea, the very kindness that
allowed both hands to be nailed to the
horizontal timber of the cross with that
cruel thuInpl thulnpi now stretches
down from the skies those same hands
filed with balm for all our wounds,
forgiveness :, :.l"..,,,--. ',:-.i:e
for all our s:r....-...s.
And while We take this matches
kindness from God, may it be found
that we have uttered our last bite,
word, written our last cutting para.
t1o-rLr-A1,-,o- La et -4atalintnry, action,
felt our last -revengeful heart throb.
And it would not be bad epitaph fol
any of us If by the grace Of God from
this time forth we lived such beneicen1
} lives that the tombstone's chisel could
appropriately cut upon the plain slel
) that marks our grave suggestion from
the text, Ike showed us no little
kindness
But not until the last child of Cox
has got ashore from the earthly storm
that drove him on the rocks like Medi
terranean Euroclydons. not until al
the thrones of heaven are mounted, ant
all the conquerors crowned, and all tn,
harps and tru1npets and organs o
heaven are thrummed or blown O
sounded, and the ransomed of al
climes and ages are in full chorus
3 under the jubilant swing of angelo
baton, and we shall for thousand
e of years have seen the river from
8 under the throne rolling into TIN
n ''sea of glass mingled with fire." ant
. this world we now inhabit shall be s.
i far In the past that only stretch O
, celestial memory can recall that it eve
y existed at all Not until then will W,
/ understand what Nehemiah calls 9Th,
great Kindness and David calls 9Th
e marvellous Kindness" and Isaiah cali
u ''the everlasting Kindness" of Godi