Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-17

ness is the most healthful and delightful.
| and this is not an abstraction. As l have
tried a little of the retaliatory feeling, so l
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 A KINDNESS.
In most OF such cases l have already sue
| ceeded. but there are few maliSnants
whom ! am vet pursuing. and [ shall not be
content until have in some wise helped
them or benefited them or blessed chem.
Let us all pray for this spirit of kindess.
II Will settle thousand questions. 1t Will
change the phase of everything. II will
mellow through and through our entire
nature. 1t Will transform lifetime. 1t Is
not feeling gotten up for occasions. but
perennial. That is the reason | ike petunias
better than morning olOrles. Ihey look
very much alike, and if should put in your
hand a petunia and a morning glory you
could hardly tell which is the petunia and
which the morning glory: but the morning
gioryr blooms only few hours and then
shuts up for the day. while the petunla IS IN
as wides pread a glow at T. O'Clock at noon
and Il O'Clock in the evening as 1t sunrise.
And this grace of kindness Is not spas
modc is not Intermittent, is not for little
while. but If irridates the whole nature. all
through and clear on till the sunset OF our
earthly exis-en Kindness, | am re-
solved TO get it. Are you resolved to get it,
Il does not come by hap-hazard. but through
culture and under the divine help.
THI~TLE- Crow WITHOUT Culture.
Rocky Mountain sage grass grows with
out culture. Mullen stalks grow without
culture But that great red rose in the
conservatory. its leaves packed on leaves.
dcep-dyed as though il had been obliged to
fight for its beauty ana it We're still reelling
with the carnage of the battle, chat rose
needed 10 be cultured and through long
years its floral ancestors were cultured.
Oh God. implaut kindness in all our souls,
aud then give Us grace TO watch il, to en-
rich il, to develop it.
The King of PrussiG had presented to
him ny The Empress of Russia the root Of a
rare flower. and it was put in the royal
gardens on an island, and the head gar
dCner, Herr tintcruann, was told to watch
ii. And one dag ii put forth its glory.
Three days Of every week the people were
admitted 20 these gardens. and Il young
man. probably not realizing what wrong
thing ne was doing. pluckcd this flower and
put il in his Dutton-hCle 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 l deny 10 the thousands of
good people Of my country the privilege of
seeing this garden because one visitor has
done wrong No: let them come ana see
the beautiful grounds" And when the
gardener wished to give the king the name
Of the offender who had
TAKEN THE ROYAL FLOWER,
he said, No, my memory is very tenacious
and do not want To have in my mind the
name of the offender, lest it should hinder
me granting him a favor some other time
Now. | want You To know that kindness is i
royal flower. and blessed br God, the king
of mercy and grace, that by a divine git
ana not by pur.olning. we may pluck tins
royal flower and not Wear it on the outside
of our nature, but wear it in our soul and
Wear it forever its radiance and aroma not
more wonderful for time than wonderful
for eternity.
Still further. must speak Of kindness of
word. When you meet anyone Go you say
Il pleasant thing or an Unpleasant, Do YOU
tell of agreeable things you have heard
about hin, or the disagrceable! When he
or does lie feel worse2 ION. 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 mint thar il has Il dangerous
power. First it IS chained to the back part
of the mouth by strong muscle Then it is
surrounded by the teeth of the 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 imprisonments
or limitations. how many take no hint in re-
gard to the
DANGEROUS POWER OF THE TONGUE,
and the results are laccration. scarification
and damnatiOn. There are those if they |
know a good thing about you and a bad |
thing, will mention the bad thin" and act |
as though they never heard the good thing. !
Now there are two sizes TO almost every |
ones character. and we have the choice of |
overhauliug 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 a 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, II was not much of a ship |
anyhow or il would not have gone to pieces |
so soon as that. Well, what do you want !
We have hard enough work to make Il liv-
ing for ourselves. without having thrust on
US two hundred and seventy-siX ragamuf-
fins Not So said the Maltese. ] think
they said: Come in. Sit down by the
fire and warm yourselves. Glad that YOU
all got of with your lives
MAKE YOURSELF At HOME
You are welcome to all we have until
some ship comes III sight and you resume
your voyage. Here let me put Il banGage
On your forehead. for that is an ugly cash
YOU got from the floating timbers, and here
is a man with broken arm We will have
a doctor come to attend 10 this fracture"
And though for three months the kindness |
went on. we have but little more than this
brief record: The harbarouS people |
showed us no little kindness.
Oh, say the cordial thing, Say the use
ful thing, Say the hospitahlc thing, Say
he helpful thing, Say the ChriStlike
hing, say the KIND thing, | admit that
his Is easier for some temperaments than
for others. Some are born pessimists. and
some are born optimiStS and that demon
states itself al through everything. II is
Loudly morning. You meet Il peSSimist aud
YOU say: What weather to-day" He
answers, ITS going TO storm" and UNI
Drcila under arm and waterproof over
'oat show that he is honest in that utter
lncc. On the same block. a minute after,
,ou meet an optimiSt. and YOU say: What
weather to-day" ''GoOd weather: this is
lu!y fog and will soon scatter" The alb
Ibsencc Of umbrella and absence Of water
proof overcoat show il is
AN HONEST UTTERANCE.
On YoUr way at noon to luncheon you
meet an optimistic merchant and YOU say:
What do YOU think of the commercial
and he says. GLORIOUS. Great
'ropS must bring great business We are
-oing TO have such an autumn and winter
If prosperity as we have never seem On
'Our WAY back 10 YOUR store you meet a
lessimistic merchant. What do YOU think
If the commercial prospects," you ask
And he answers: We'll. don't know. So
much grain will Surfeit the country Farm
.rS have more bushels hut less prices. and
no, r,.lir l,l,.r.S will -laI,. in