The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-10-16

every man well, every woman well
every child well every bird well, every
horse well. every dog we'll every cat
well. 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 woman's association,
and IL would dull every sword until il
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 pyro-
technic celebrations Kindness is q
spirit divinely implanted and in answer
To prayer, and then TO bc scduously
cultivated until it fills all the nature with
perfume richer and more pungent
than mignonette, and, as il you put a
tuft OF that aromatic beauty behind the
clock on the mantel or in some corner
where nobody can see il, you find people
walking about your room looking this
way and that, and you ask them: "What
are you looking for?' and they answer
where is that howcr?" So if one has
in his soul this infinite sweetness Of
disposition its perfume will whclm
every thing.
But are you waiting and hoping for
some one to be banlIruptcd or exposed
or discounted, or in some way over
thrown? Then kindness has not taken
possession of your nature. You are
wrecked on n 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 nm
healthy and ruinous feeling on earth is
IL revengcful spirit, or retaliating spirit.
as ] know by experience, for | have
tried it for five or ten minutes at
time, When some mean thing has been
done mo or said about me /
have felt II will pay him in
his own coin. will show him up.
The migrate! The traitor The liar
The villain But five or ten minutes
Of the feeling has been so unncrving
and eXhausting have abandoned it,
and | can not understand how people
can keep torturing themselves five or
ten or twenty years, trying TO get even
with somebody. The only way you
will ever triumph over your enemies
is by forgiving them and wishing
hem all good and no evil AS
is the most uneasy and
protitlcss and dangerous feeling, kind
ness is the most healthful and delight
'ul. And this is not an abstraction. As
have tried n little of the retaliatory
ceiling so | have tried little of the |
orgiving. do not want to leave this |
world until have taken vengeance up |
IN every man that ever did me wrong, |
by doing him a kindness. In most of |
uch eases ! have already succeeded, |
ut there are few malignants whom |
am yet pursuing, and / shall not be |
content until have in some wise help
d them or benefited them or blessed
hem.
Let us all pray for this spirit of kind
less IL will settle n thousand qucs-
ions. 1t will change the phase of
1t will mellow through
nd through our entire nature II will
transform lifetime 1t is not feel
ng gotten up for occasions, but percn-
ial That is the reason like petunias
cttcr than morning. glorics. They
ooR very much alike, and if should
mt in your hand n petunia and a morn
ng-glory you could hardly tell which
'as the pctuna and which the morn
1g-gIory; but the morning-glory
looms only a few hours and then shuts
p for the day while the pctuna is in
$ widespread of glow at IL o'clock at
Don and at o'clock in the evening rs
sunrise And this grace of kindness
not spasmodic, is not intermittent,
not for little while, but
irradiates the whole nature, all {
trough and clear on till the sunset Of
nr earthly existence. Kindness! |
m resolved to get it. Are you resolved
} get IT? IL does not come by hap $
nzard, but through culture under the
ivinc help. Thistles grow without !
allure. Rocky mountain sage grass :
rows without culture. Mullen stalks '
row without culture. But that great I
1T rose in the conservatory, its leaves 6
ickcd on leaves, deep-dycd rs though 2
had been obliged to fight for it's 1
'auty and il were still reelIing with t
&c carnage Of battle, that rose needed Il
be cultured and through long years d
; floral ancestors were cultured. Oh,
od! implant kindness in all our souls, I
Id then give us grace to watch il, to r
rich it, To develop it. 5
The king of Prussia had presented to y
IN by the empress of Russia the root p
rare flower, and it was put in the /
yal gardens ON an island, and the 81
ad gardener, Herr Fintclmaun, was d
ld To watch il. And one day it put n
rth its glory, Three days of every (,
EEK the people were admitted To these I,