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

BIBLE EXAMPLES OF KINDNESS.
Kiudnessl What a great word that is. 1t
would take a reed as long as that which
the apocalyptic angel used to measure
heaven to tell the length, the breadth, the
height of that muniiicept word. 1t IS q
fayorite Bible word, and it is early launched
in the book of Genesis, caught up IN the
book of Joshua, embraced in the book Of
Ruth, sworn by in the book of Samuel,
crowned in the book of Psalms, and Ell
throned in many places in the New l'esta
ment Kindnessl y word no more gentle
than mighty. expect it will wrestle me
down before get through with it. It is
strong enough to throw an archangel. But
it will be well for us TO stand around it,
and warm ourselves 10y its glow us Paul
and his fellow voyagers stood around the
Ere on the Island Of Malta, where the Nal
tese made themselves immortal in my text
by the way they treated these victims of the
sea. "The barbarous people showed us no
little kindness"
Kindnessl All definitions Of that multi
potent word break down half way You
say it is clemency, benignity, generosity; it
is made up OF good wishes, it is an expires
sion of benefcence, it is a contribution to
the happiness of others. Some one else
says; "Why, l can give you definition OF
/ kindness; It is sunshine Of the soul, it is
affection perennial, it is a browning grace,
/ it is the combination of all graces, it is
compassion, it is the perfection Of gentle
/ manliuess and womanliness." Are you
/ all through? You have made dead fail
ure in your definition 1t cannot be de-
J fined. But we all know what it is, for we
| all felt its power. Some of you may have
| felt it as Paul felt it, on some coast OF
rock as the ship went to pieces, but more
! of us have again and again in some awful
stress Of life had either from earth OF
| heaven hands stretched out, which
Showed us no little kindness"
! There is kindness Of disposition, kind
ness of word, kindness of act, and there is
Jesus Christ, the impersonatiOn of all Of
them Kindnessl You cannot affect it.
| you cannot play it as part, you cannot
enact it, you cannot dramatic it. BY the
grace Of God you must have 1t inside you
an everlasting summer, or rather com
bination of June and October, the genial
ty Of the one and the tonic Of the other.
1t cannot dwell with arrogance or spite or
revenge or malevolence. At its first ap
pearance in the soul all these Amalekites
and Gergishites and Hittites and Jebusites
must quit, and quit forever.
Kindness wishes everybody well, every
man well, every woman well, every chic
we'll, every bird well, every horse well
every dog we'll, every cat well. Give this
spirit full swing, and you would have nc
more need of societies for prevention o.
| cruelty TO animals, no more need OF pro
tective sewing wOman's association, and u
would dull every sword until 1t would moi
cut skin deep, and unwheel every battery
till it could not roll, and make gunpowdel
of no more use in the world except fo
rock blasting or pyrotechnic celebration.
Kindness Is a spirit divinely implanted
and in answer to prayer, and then to b.
sedulOusly cultivated until it fills all tn
nature with a perfume richer and NOR
puneeut than mignOnette, and, as II yol
put tuft Of that aromatic beauty behin'
the clock on the mantel or in some corne
where nobody can see it, you find peopl
walking about your room looking thi
way and that, and you ask them, wi a
are sou looking for" And they answer
"Whsre is that flower" So II one has II
soul this infinite sweeintss Of dispo
ion Ire perfume will wl.elm everything.
TIE Evils OF REvEEe EFCL FEELING.
But Il you are waiting and hoping fol
some one 70 be bankrupted or exposed Of
discounted, or in any way overthrow, ther
kindness has not taken possession OF YOU
nature You are wrecked on a Malt'
where there are no oranges You are en-
PERTAINING guest so unlike kindness tha
kindness viii not come and dwell undo
the same roof. The most exhausting ant
unhealthy and ruinous feeling on earth /
arevengeful spirit OF retaliating spirit, al
know by experience, for ! have tried i
five or ten minutes at time. When som'
mean thing has been done me or said aboul
me have felt "1will pay him in his owl