Connecticut western news., 1891-09-17
Jebnsites must quit, and quit forever

SScAy Auell well, every WOludIl we'll, every child we'll, every bird we'll. every horse well, every dog well. every cat we'll Give this spirit full swing and you would have no more need of societies for prevention of cruelty to animals, no more need of protective sewing wom- sword until it would not cut skin deep, and unwheel every battery till it could not roll, and make gunpowder of no more use in the world except for rock blasting or pyrotechnic celebration.
 Kindness is spirit divinely i1nplant ed, and in answer to prayer, and then to be sedulously cultivated until it fills all the nature with perfume richer and more pungent than mignonette, and, as if you put tuft of that arc matic beauty behind the clock on the mantel, or in some corner where no body can see it. you find people walk ing about your room looking this way and that, and you ask them, What afe you looking for9" and they answer Where is that fower2' So if one has in his soul this infinite sweetness of dis position. it's perfume will wheln every thing.
 TRUE KINDNESS IS PERENNIAL sz.-
 But if you are waiting and hoping for some one to be bankrupted or exposed or discpmfited or in s6ine way over thrown then kindness has not taken possession of your nature You are wrecked on a Malta where there are no oranges You are entertaining guest SO unlike kindness that kindness will not come and dwell under the same roof The most exhausting and un- healthy and ruinous feeling on earth is a revengeful spirit or retaliating spirit, as l know by experience, for have tried it for five or ten minutes at time. When some mean thing has been done me or said about me, have felt: ''l will pay him in his own coin. 1 will show him up. The ingratel The traitorl The liarl The villain!"
 But five or ten minutes of the feeling has been so unnerving and exhausting I have abandoned it, and cannot un- derstand how people can go about tor turing themselves five or 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 no evil As malevolence is the most uneasy and profitless and dangerous feeling, kindness Is the most healthful and delightful And this is not ab- straction. As have tried a little of the retaliation, so have tried little of the forgiving
 do not want to leave this world until have taken vengeance upon every man that ever did me wrong by doing him kindness In most of such cases l have already succeeded, but there are a few malignants whoin am yet pursuing and shall not be content until have in some wise helped them or benefited them or blessed them. Let us pray for this spirit of kindness It will settle a thousand questions. It will change the phase of everything. It will mel low through and through our entire nature. It will transform a lifetime It isnot feeling gotten up for occa sions, but perennial
 That is the reason l like petunias better than morning glories They look very much alike. and if 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 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 little while, but it irradiates 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 it2 It does not come by haphazard, but through cul- ture under the divine help Thistles grow without culture Rocky noun tain sage grass grows without culture. Mullen stalks grow without culture. But that great red rose ill the co,lser vatory, it's leaves packed on leaves, deep dyed as though it had been obliged to fight for it's beauty and it were still reeking with the carnage ot the battle, that rose needed to be cul tured and through long years it's floral ancestors were cultured. O God. i'm
 plant kindness in all our souls. and then give us grace to watch it. to ell
 rich it, to develop iti
 The king of Prussia had presented tc him by the empress of Russia the root of a rare flower. and 1t was put in the royal gardens on an island and the head gardener. Herr Fintelnann, was told to watch It, and one day it put forth it's glory Three days of every
 week the people were admitted to these | gardens, and young man, probably l not realizing what a wrong thing he
 was doing, plucked this flower and put | 1t in his buttonhole, and the gardener l arrested him as he was crossing at the ferry, and asked the king to throw ope, 1 no more his gardens to the public
 The king replied: Shall deny to thu
 thousands of good people of my coun try the privilege of seeing this garden because one visitor has done wrongi l No, let them come and see the beauti full grounds"
 And when the gardener wished tc l give the king the name of the offender who had taken the royal flower, he said, No, my memory is very tena cious and do not want to have in my mind the name of the offender, lest il should hinder me granting him favor some other time." Now, want you to know that kindness is royal flower