The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1891-09-18
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to be sedulously cultivated until 1t fills
all the nature with perfume richer
and more pungent than mignonette,
and, as II you put tuft of that arc
matte 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
are you looking fort" and they answer,
"Where is that fiowerT So If one has
in his soul this infinite sweetness of dis
position, its perfume will whelm every
thing.
TRUR KINDNESS rs PERENNIAL.
But If 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 are no
oranges, You are entertaining guest
30 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 l have
tried it for FIVE or ten minutes at time
When some mean thing has been done
me or said about me, have felt: 81
will pay him in his own coin. will
show him up. The migrate The traitorl
The liar The villainr"
But five or ten minutes of the feeling
has been SO unnerving and exhausting
| have abandoned 1t, and l cannot I'M
derstand how people can 60 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 protitless and dangerous
feeling, kindness is the most healthful
and delightful And this is not alb
straction. As have tried little of
the retaliation, so have tried little
of the forgiving
do not want to leave this world
until l have taken vengeance upon
every man that ever did me a wrong
by doing him kindness. In most Of
such cases l have already succeeded,
but there are few malignants whom l
am yet pursuing and l shall not be
content until l have in some wise
helped them or benefited them or
blessed them. Let us pray for this
spirit of kindness 1t will settle a
thousand questions. 1t will change
the phase of everything. 1t will mel
low through and through our entire
nature. 1t will transform a lifetime.
1t is not 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 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 1t irradiates
the whole nature all through and
clear on till the sunset of our earthly
existence.
Kindnessl am resolved to get it.
Are you resolved to get it9 1t 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 In the conser-
vatory, its leaves packed on leaves,
deep dyed as though it had been
obliged to fight for its beauty and it
were still reeking with the carnage Of
the battle, that rose needed to be cul-
tured and through long years its floral
ancestors were cultured. o God, i'm
plant kindness in all our souls, and
then give us grace to watch 1t, to en-
rich it, to develop it
The king of Prussia had presented to
him by the empress of Russia the root
of a rare flower, and it was put in the
royal gardens on an island and the
head gardener, Herr Fintelmann, was
told to watch it, and one day it put
forth its glory. Three days Of every
week the people were admitted to these
gardens, and young man, probably
not realizing what a wrong thing he
was doing, plucked this flower and put
it in his buttonhole, and the gardener
arrested him as 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 to the
thousands of good people Of my coun
try the privilege of seeing this gardel
J because one visitor has done wrong
No, let them come and see the beauti
full grounds
And when the gardener wished +
give the king the name of the offende
who had taken the royal flower, h
said, No, my memory is very tena
cous and do not want to have in IN
, mind the name of the offender lest
should hinder me granting him a favo
: some other time Now, | want 20
> to know that kindness is a royal flower
and blessed be God, the King of mere
and grace that by divine gift and nc
l by purloining, we may pluck this roys
flower and not wear it on the outsid
, of our nature but wear it in our sol
and wear it forever, its radiance an
/ aroma not more wonderful for tim
e than wonderful for eternity
D POWER OF THE TONGUE
i Still further, must speak of kindne.
i of word. When you meet any one d
g you say pleasant thing or an unpea
o anti Do you tell him of agreeable thing
you have heard about him or the dis,
|. greeable2 When he leaves you dot
A he feel better or does he feel wors,
n oh, the power of the tongue for Il