Baxter Springs news. [volume] (Baxter Springs, Kan.) 1882-1919, 1891-09-19

looking for?" and they answer, where
10 that fiower?" So II one has In his soul
that infinite sweetness OF disposition,
its perfume will overwhelm everything.
But are you waiting and hoping for
someone to be bankrupted 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 nc
oranges. You are entertaining guest
so unlike kindness that kindness will
not come ana dwell under the same roof.
The most exhausting and unhealthy
and ruinous feeling on earth Is q re-
vengeful spirit or retaliating spirit, as
/ know BY experience, for have tried
il for five or ten minutes at time.
When some mean thing had been done
me or said about me. l have felt, II will
paw him in his own coin. ] will show
him up. The migrate. The traitor.
the liar! The villain" But five or
ten minutes OF the feeling has been so
unnerving and exhausting have aban-
dOned it. and can mol understand how
people can go about torturing them
selves five or ten or twenty years, try
ing to get even with somebody. The
only way you will ever triumph over
your enemies is by forgiving them and
wishing them all good and no evil. As
! malevolcnce is the most uneasy and un-
profitless and dangerous feeling, kind.
ness is the most healthful and delight
full. And this is not au abstraction. AS
! have tried little OF the retaliatory
! feeling, so have tried a little OF the
I forgiving. l do not want to leave this
world until / have taken vengeance
upon every man that ever did me q
wrong. by doing him kindness.
In most such cases | have already
succeeded, but there are few malig-
nants whom am yet pursuing. and
shall not be content until have in
some wise helped them or benefited
| them or blessed them. Let us all pray
; for this spirit OF kindness. 1t will set
tie thousand questions. It will change
the phase of everything. 1t will mel
! low through and through our entire
nature. 1t will transform q lifetime.
II is not a feeling gotten up for occasions,
but perennial. That is the reason !
like petunias better than morning
glories. They look very much alike,
and II l should put into your hand a
petunia and morning glory you could
hardly tell which is the petunia and
which is the morning glory: but the
morning glory blooms only a few hours
and then shuts up for the day, while
, the pe,pnia is in as wide spread q
bloom at II o'clock at noon and at 6
o'clock in the evening as at sunrise.
And this grace OF kindness is not spas
modic, is not intermittent. is not for q
little while, but it irradicates the
whole nature, all through and clear on
till the sunset OF our earthly existence.
Kindness! am resolved to get it. Are
you resolved to get it? 1t does not
come by haphazard, but through Gull
ture under the divine help. Thistles
grow without culture. Rocky noun
tain sage grass grows without culture
Mullen stalks grow without culture
But that gread red rose in the conserva-
tory. its leaves packed on leaves, deep
dyed as though it had been obliged to
fight for its beauty and it we're still
ieeking with the carnage OF the battle
that rose needed TO be cultured and
through long years its floral ancestors
were cultured. o. God! implant kind
ness in all our souls, and then give US
grace to watch it, to enrich it, to de-
velop ii.
One would think from the way the
tongue is Gagged in we might take the
hint that it has q dangerous power.
First it is chained to the back part OF
the mouth ty strong muscle. Then it
is surrounded by the teeth OF the lower
jaw, so many ivory bars: and then by
the teeth OF the upper jaw, more ivory
bars. Then outside of all are the two
lips with the power OF compression and
arrest. And yet notwithstanding these
four imprisonments of limitations how
many take no hint in regard to the dan
gerous power OF the tongue and the re-
suits are liberation, scarihcation and
damnatlon. There are those If they
know good thing about you and O bad
thing will mention the bad thing aud
act as though they had never heard the
good thing. Now there are two sides
10 almost every ones character and we
have the choice OF Overhauling the vir-
tue or the vice. We can greet Paul
and the ships crew as they come up the
beach Of Malta, with the words, "What
a sorry looking set you are. How little
of navigation you must know to run on
these rocks! Didn't you know better
than to put out on the Mediterranean
this wintry month? II was not much
of ship anyhow, or it would not have
gone to pieces so soon as that. Well,
what do you want? We have hard
enough work to make living for our
selves. without having thrust on us the
21G ragamuiiins." Not so said the NAL
tese. / think they said: ''Come in Sit
down by the fire and warm yourselves.
Glad that you all got of with your
lives. Make yourselves ut home. You
are welcome TO al we have until some
ship comes in sight and you resume
your voyage. Here. let me put band
age on your forhead, for that is an ugly
cash you got from the floating timbers,
and here is man with broken arm.
We will have doctor come to attend
TO this fracture" And, though for
three months the kindness went on. we
N avea huf liftla Tnnra than thic hpia rao I