The Hazel Green herald. [volume] (Hazel Green, Wolfe County, Ky.) 1885-19??, 1891-10-16
KINDNESS.
A Spirit Which Will Change tho
Phase OF Everything.
Great Would Be tho World ~ Dominated
B-a word which IIcraIds the Conn
ing or the Millennium-Dr.
Talmagc's Sermon.


DR. Talmage's Sunday morning ser
mon was on kindness, " from the text,
Acts xviii, 2: 1.-The barbarous people
showed us no little kindness"
Here we are on the Island of Malta.
another name for Mclita. This island,
which has always been an important
commercial center, belonging at differ
ent times To- Phnnccia, to Greece, to
Rome, To Arabia, to Spain, to France.
and now belongs TO England. The
area of the island is about one hundred
square miles. 1t is in the Medtcr.
rancan sea, and of such clarity OF atmos-
| phere that Mt Etna, ono hundred and
thirty miles away, can be distinctly
seen. The island is gloriously memoir
able, because the Knights of Malta for
long while ruled there; but most
famous because of the apostolic ship
wreck The bcstormcd vessel on which
Paul sailed had laid To" on the star
board tack, and the wind was blowing
east-north-east, and the vessel, drifting
probably n mile and a half an hour
struck at what is now called st. Pants
Bay. Practical sailors have taken up
the Bible account and decided beyond
controversy the place of the shipwrccl<
But the island which has SO rough coast
is for the most part garden. Richest
fruits and profusion of honey charac-
tcriZcd IL i'm PauPs time as well as
now. The finest oranges, figs and oil
ives grow there. When Paul and his
comrades crawled up on the beach, sat
uratcd with the salt water and hungry
nj.
chilled to the bone, the islanders,
though called barbarians, because they
could not speak Greek, opened their
doors to the shipwrcclScd uufortunates.
Every thing had gone to the bottom OF
the deep and the barefooted barchead- |
cd Apostle and ships crew were in n !
condition to appre ,iate hospitality. |
About twenty-five LLch men, few !
seasons ago, i found in the life station |
near Easthampton, Long Island. They |
had got ashore in the night from the |
sea, and not n hat or shoe had they left.
They found ont, as Paul and his fellow
voyagers found out, that the sea is the
toughest of all robbers. My text finds
the ships crew ashore on Malta, and
around hot fire drying themselves,
"''u WIN WIG otSI plONlSlOnS VIC lSlunu-
ers can offer them. And they 90
into government quarters for three
days to recuperate. Publius, the ruler,
inviting them, although he had Sc.
we're sickness in the house Mt that time,
his father down with dysentcry and ty-
phoid fever. Yea, for three months
they stayed on the island watching for
n ship, and putting the Inequalities of
the islanders To a severe test But they
endured the test satisfactorily, and it is
recorded for all the ages of time and
eternity To read and hear in regard to
the inhabitants of Malta: "1he bar
barous people showed us no little kind
LeSs."
Kindness! What great word that
Is. 1t would take n reed as long rs that
which the apocalyptic angel used to
measure Heaven to tell the length, the
breadth, the height of that munificcnt
word. IL is a favoritc Bible word, and
Il is early launched in the book OF
Genesis, caught up in the book of
Joshua, embraced in the book of Ruth,
sworn 10y IN the book of Samuel.
in the book of Psalms, and
,nthroncd in many places in the New
Testament Kindncss A word no !
more gentle than mighty. expect it !
will wrcstle me down before / get !
through with IT, II is strong enough l
% throw an arch.angel. But il will be {
we'll for us to stand around il and warm q
ourselves by its glow, as Paul and his |
fellow voyagers stood around the fire J
IN the Island OF Malta, where the ]
Maltese made themselves immortal in c
ny text by the way they treated these 2
'ictims of the sea. "The harbarous e
PEOPLE showed us no little kindness" I
Kindness! All definitions of that 7
word break down half n
way. You say il is clcmcncy, benign {
ty, generosity; il is made up of good I
wishes; it is an expression of bencf- Z
ence; IL is "a contribution To the happi- II
css of others. Some one else SAYS: Il
why, can give you definition of a
indncss. 1t is sunshine of the soul; il e
5 affection perennial; IL is clmacter'c
race; IL is the combination of all h
race; II is compassion; il is the pcrfec. O
ion OF gentle manliness and womanli- r,
ess." Arc you all through? You h
ave made dead failure in your def I,
ition, IL can not be defined But we f.
II know what il Is. for we all feel its "
over Some of you may have felt il q
S Paul felt IL. on some coast of rock rs m
ie ship went To pieces, but more of MS W
ave again and again, in some awful it
.ress of life, hal either from earth or al
caven hands stretched out, which f.
showed MS no little kindness" N,
There is kindness of disposition, lj