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


cannot dwell with arrS.s,auca or spit. OF
revenge or nalcvolencc. At lis tirs;
appearance In the soul all tho~-s Anna:
eAites and Gergishites and Hlttitos and
JehuSites mus; quit, and quilt forever.
Kindness wishes cverybod~ we'll
every man well. every woman well,
every child well. every bird well, every
horse well, every dog well, every cat
well. Give this spirit full swing and you
would have no more need Of societies
for prevention Of cruelty 10 animals,
no more need of protective sewing WON
ans associations. and II would dull every
sword until it would not cut skin deep.
and unwheel every battery Til Ii could
not roll, and make gunpowdt< of nc
more use In the world except for rock
blasting or pyrotechnic cclchration
Kindness is "A spirit divinely implant.
ed, and IN answer 10 prayer and then
T. re sedulously cultivated until Ii Ill.
al The nature with "a perfume richer
&nl moro pungent than mignonctte.
and, rs II you put n tuft of that aro
matte beauty behind the clock on the
mantol, or in some corner where no
BODY can see 1t, you find people walk
Ing about your room looking this way
and that, and you ask them, What
are you looking torr and they answer,
"Where Is that flowerf' so II ono has
In his soul this infinite sweetness OF dis
position. its perfume Will %helm every.
thing
TRuE KINDNESS IL PERENNIAL
But II you are waiting and hoping for
some one 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 arc 10
oranges. You are entertaining gnest
80 unlike kindness that kindness will
not como and dwell under the same
roof. The most exhausting and IN
healthy and ruinous feeling on earth is
a revengeful spirit or retaIiating spirit,
as | know by experience, for | have
tried 1t for five or ten minutes at q time.
When some mean thing has been done
me or said about Inc, / have felt: Il
will pay him in his own coin. Will
show him up. The migrate The traitor
The liar! The villainI"
But five or ten minutes of the feeling
has been SO unnerying and exhausting
have abandoned 1t, and / cannot un-
derstand how people can 90 about tor
turing themselves nve o. Ten or twenty
years, trying to get even with some.
body. The only way you Will ever tri-
umph over your enemies is by forgiving
them and wishing them all good and
DO evil As malevolence Is the most
uneasy and profitless and dangerous
feeling, kindness is the moet healthful
and delightful. And this is not ab,
araction. AS have tried little OF
the retaliation, 50 have tried little
of the forgiving
do not want to leave this world
until | have taken vengeance upon
by doing him n kindness In most OF
such cases | have already succeeded,
| but there are few malignants whom
ON yet pursuing and l shall not be
| content until I have in some wise
| helped them or benefited them o,
| blessed them, Let us pray for this
| spirit OF kindness It will settle g
| thousand questions. Il will change
the phase of everything 1t will mel
low through and through our entire
nature 1t will transform a lifetime
1t is not a feeling gotten up for occa
sions, but perennial.
That Is the reason | like petunia,
better than morning glories. They lool
very much alike, and II should put II
your hand petunia and morning
glo:y you could hardly tell which /
| the petunia and which the morning
| glory; bnt the morning glory bloom
oDlv few hours and then shuts NJ
for tie day, while the petunia is In a
widespread glow ut twelve O'Clock a
noon and six o'clock in the evening a
at sunrise And this grace OF klndnes
is not spasmodic, is not intermittent, i
not for little while, but it irTadtate
| lilc Hi3ITt iftAIbfC Shi4 or
clear on till the sunset OF our earthl
existence.
Kindnessl am resolved TO get it
Are you resolved to get itf 1t docs no
come by haphazard, but through cul
ture under the divine help. Thistle
grow without culture Rocky noun
tain sage grass grows without culture
Mullen stalks grow without culture
But that great rcd rose In the conse,
vatory, it's leaves packed on leaves
deep dyed IS though it had bee
obliged 70 fight for It's beauty and
were stiiI reeking with the carnage c
the battle, that rose Deeded TO DO Gu
ture1 and through hong years hs fiora
ancestors we're cultured. 0 God, i'm
| plant kindness tn all our souls. an
then give us grace to watch it. to or
rich it, to develop It'll
The king of Prussia had presented
him by ahe empress of Russia the roc
Of rare flower, and 1t was put in til
royal gardens on an Island and tn
head gardener, Herr FinteiTnann. We
told TO watch it, and one day it p,
forth It's glory. Three days of ever
week the people were admitted to thes
gardens, and & young man, probabl
!, not realizing what a wrong thing /
. was doing, piucked this flower and ps
it in his buttontoIe, and the garden4
arrested him rs he was crossing at II
ferry. and asked the king TO throw cpe
no more lis gartens to the publ
/ THE king replied: 'IShall ] deny to Il
| thocaands Of good people Of my couI
> try the privilege oil seeing this garde
because one visitor las done wron!
, No, let them come and see the beau'
Q ful grounds"
, And when the gardener wished