The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-09-24

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beauty behind the clock on heman,le,
OF N some corner where nobody can
see IT, you find people walking about
your room looking this way and that,
and an You ask them, "What are youlook-
ing lori" and they answer, "Where is
t tll flower" $50 if one has in his soul
z infinite sweetness Of disposition,
It's perfume will whelm everything.
Let us all pray for this spirit OF kind
ness. It will settle q thousand ques-
lions. It will change the phrase of
everything. It will mellow through
and through our entire nature. twill
transform lifetime. 1t is not feel
ing gotten up for occasions, but peren-
ma. And this grace of kindness is not
spasmodic, it is intermittent, is mott for
allttle while, but 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 it? 1t does not
come by haphazard, but through cul-
ture under the Divine help.
Still further, / must speak of kind
ness OF word. When you meet any
one do you say a pleasant thing or an
unpleasant? Do you tell him OF
agreeable things you have heard about
nm, or the disagreeable? When he
leaves you, does he feel better or does
he feel worse? Oh, the power
OF the tongue for the production of
happiness or misery! One would think
from the way the tongue is Gagged
IN we might take the hint that it has
dangerous power. Firstit is chained
to the back part of the mouth by
strong muscle. Then it is surrounded
by the teeth ofthe lower jaw, so many
ivory bars; and then by the teeth Of
the upper jaw more ivory bars. Then
outside of all are the two lips with the
power of compression and arrest.
And yet Notwithstanding these four
lmprisonments or limitations, how
many take no hint in regard to the
dangerous power of the tongue, and
the results are laceration, specification
and damnation. There are those if
they know a good thing about you
and bad thing, will mention the bad
thing and act as though they had
never heard the good thing. Now,
there are two sides to almost every
ones character, and we have the
choice of overhauling the virtue or the
vice. We can greet Paul and the ships
crew as they come up the beach of
Malta with the words, "What sorry
looking set you are! How little Of
navigation you must know to run on
these rocks! Didn't you know better
than to put out on the Mediterranean
this wintry month? It was not much
OF ship anyhow, or it would not
have gone to pieces as soon as that.
Well, what do you want? We
have hard enough work to make
a,lvlng for ourselves, without having
thrust on us 276 ragamuffins. Not
so said the Maltese. think they
said: "Come in! Sit down by the
fire and warm yourselves. Glad that
you all got off with your lives. Make
yourselves at home. You are welcome
to all we have until some ship comes
in sight and you resume your voyage.
Here let me put a bandage on your
forehead, for that is an ugly cash you
got from the floating timbers, and
here is a man with a broken arm. We
will have a, doctor come to attend to
this fracture
Oh! say the cordial, thing Say the
useful thing! Say the hospitable
thing! Say the hel pful thing! Say the
Christ-like thing Say the kind thing!
l admit that this is easier for some
temperaments than for others. Some
are born pessimists, and some are
born optimists, and that demonstra-
tes itself all through everything. It is
a. Pjn116v
mist and you say: "What weather
today?" He answers, otis going to
Storm" and UNI brella under arm and
a waterproof overcoat show that he
is honest in that utterance. On the
same block, a minute after, you meet
an optimist, and you say: "What
weather today?" "Good weather;
this is only fog and will soon scat
ter" The absence of umbrella and
absence of waterproof overcoat show
it is an honest utterance. On your
way at noon to luncheon you
meet an optimist merchant
and you say: "What do you think
of the commercial prospects?" and he
says, "Glorious. Great crops must
bring great business. We are going to
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prosperity as we have never seem"
On your way back to your store you
meet a pessimistic merchant. "What
do you think of the commercial pros
pects?" you ask. And he answers:
well, don't know. So much grain
will surfeit the country Farmers
have more bushels but less prices, and
the grain gamblers will get their fist in.
There is the Mckinley bill; and the
hay crop is short in some places, and
in the southern part of Wisconsin
they had hail storm and our bust
ness is as dull as it ever was" You
will find the same difference in judg-
ment OF character A man Of good
reputation is assaulted and charged
with some evil deed. At the first
story the pessimist will believe in guilt.
'"Ihe papers said so, and that's
enough. Down with him!" the opti-
mist will say: II don't believe word
OF it. l don't think that man that
has been as useful and seemingly hon
est for 20 years could have got off
track like that. There are
TWO SIDES TO THIS STORY.
and will wait to hear the other side
before 7 oo,,1or,,, 1,;po ~ NV !, ~ ,,o,, ;E