Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1891-09-18

I ing themselves five or ten or twenty years,
trying to get even with somebody. The
only way sou will ever triumph over your
enemies is by forgivlng them and wishing
them all COOL and no evil. As malevO
leuce is the most uneasy and profitless and
dangerous feeling, kindness is the most
healthful md delightful. And this IS not
an abstraction. As ] have tried little Of
the retaliation. so I have tried a little Of
She forgiving
do not want to leave this world until
have taken vengeance upon every man that
ever did me a wrong by doing him kind
ness IN most OF such cases | have already
succeeded, but there are few malignants
] whom am yet pursuing, and shall not
beconteut until have I'm some wise helped
them or benefited them or blessed them.
Let us all pray for this spirit Of kindness
/ Ii win settle a thousand questions. It will
change the phase Of everything. It will
mellow through and through our entire
nature. 10 will transform a lifetime. It Is
not a feeling cotton up for occasions. but
perennial.
That is the reason like petunias better
than morning glories They look very
much alike, and il I should put in your
hand petunia and a morning glory you
could hardly tell which Is the petunia and
which the morning glory; but the morning
glory blooms only a few hours and then
shuts up for the dag, while the petunia is
| in as widespread glow at twelve o'clock
at noon and six O'Clock in the evening MS
at sunrise. And this grace Of kindness is
not spasmodic, is not intermittent, is not
for a little while, but it irradiates the
I whole nature. all through and clear on
till the sunset Of our earthly existence.
Kindnessl am resolved to get it. Arc
YOU resolved to get iti 1t does not come by
| baphazard, but through culture under the
divine help Thistles grow without cul-
| ture Rocky mountain sage grass grows
without culture Mullen stalks grow
| without culture But that great red rose
! in the conservatory, its leaves packed on
| leaves, deep dyed as though It bad been
| OBLIGED to fight for its beauty and it were
still reeking with the carnage Of the battle,
| that rose needed to be cultured, and
| through long years its floral ancestors were
| cultured o God, implant kindess In all
our souls, and then give us grace to watch
/ it, to enrich it, to develop It'll
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 gar
/ dener, Herr Fintelmann, was told to watch
| il. And one day it put forth its glory
i'Three days Of every week the people were
| admitted to these gardens, and young
| man. probably not realizing what wrong
! thing he was doing, plucked this flower
and put it in his buttOnhOle, and the gar
! dener arrested himHs 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 the thousands OF
| good people Of my country the privilege or
| seeing this garden because one visitor has
| done wrongY 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 iumy mind the name of the
offender, lest it should hinder me granting
him favor some other time" Now, ]
want yoH to know that kindness is a royal
flower. aud blessed b. God, the King Of
mercy and grace that by divine gift and
not by purloining, we may pluck this royal
flower and not wear ii on the outside Of
our nature, but wear it in our soul and
wear it forever, its radiance and aroma not
more wonderful for time than wonderful
for eternity.
KIND WORDS CAN NEVER DIE"
Still further, ! must speak OF Kindness OF
word When you meet any one do you
say pleasant thing or an unpleasantg do
you tell him of agreeable things you have
/ heard about him, or the disagreeableg
When he leaves You does be feel better or
does he feel worses Oh, the power of the
tongue for the production Of happiness or
miseryl One would think from the way
the tongue is Gagged in we might take the
hint that it has dangerous power First,
! it is chained TO the back Of the mouth by
stroug muscles. 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 ali
are the two lips with the power OF com
preston and arrest, aud yet notwithstand'
! ing these four imprisonments or hmita-
tions, how many take no hint in regard to
the dangerous power Of the tongue, and
the results are liberation. specification and
| damnation.
There are those if they know a good
i thing about you and a bad thing, will men
/ ton 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 over
i hauling the virtue or the vice. We can
greet Paul aud the ships crew as they
come IN the beach Of Malta with the
words: "What a sorry looking set you arel
How little of navigation you must know
TO ruueou these rocksl Didn't you know
better than t6-put-out on the Mediterra-
mean this wintry month"; 1t was not much
of n ship anyhow, or it would not have
gone to pieces 50 soon as that. Well, what
do YOU wantg We have hard enough work
10 make a living for ourselves, without
having thrust on US two hundred and sew
enty-six ragamuilins."
Not so said the Maltese think they
said; Come inl Sit down by the fire and
warm yourselvesl Glad that you all got
, of with your lives. Mako yourselves al
home. You are welcome to all we have
until some ship comes in sight and you re
sumo your voyage. Here, let me put q
bandage on your forehead, for that Is an
ugly cash you got from the hoating tim
l;ers. and here is a man with a broken arm.
, We will have a doctor come to attend to
this fracture" And though for thrra
months the kindness went on, we have but
7 little more than this brief record, "'rhC
barbarous people showed us no little kind
mesa"
5 OH say the cordial thingl Say the use
} full thingl Say the hospitable thing! Say
the helpful thing Say the Christlikc
thing! Say the kind tmngl admit that
this Is easier for some temperaments than
/, for Others Some are born pessimists, and
I some are born optimists. and that demon
strates itself all through everything It is
a cloudy morning. You meet pessimsl
and you say, Nv hat weather todayp' lie
q answers. Its going 10 storm" and um
brela under arm and a waterproof over
! coat show that he is honest III that utter
/ ance On the same block, a minute after
1 son meet an Optimist and you say, "Whai
i weather todayf' Good weather; this j.
! only fog and will soon scatter" TIT
absence of umbrella and absence Of water
proof overcoat show il is an honest utter
ance
al On your way at noon TO luncheon yo'
meet an optimistic merchant and you say
"What do you think OF the Commercial
pruspectss" and lac says. "Glorious, Grea
crops must bring great business We ar
7 going to have such an autumn and winte
OF prosperity as we have never seen." o.
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