The Newtown bee., 1894-02-16

,ould not speak Greek, did they not e1- libit feeling that makes us go back trough these 1900 years, touch elbows with them and know them as our kin! ''The barbarous people showed us no little kindness Kindness What is it? I cannot fully tell you. To enumerate all it's excellencies would exhaust the energies of the longest life, would tax the thought of a God. Kindness! It is the overflowing of self upon others. It is treating your neighbor as you would have your neighbor treat you. It is putt ting yourself in another's place, feeling just as he feels, thinking just as he thinks, speaking just as he speaks, and looking out upon the world just as he looks out upon it.
 KINDNESS IS THE SERVING of others and expecting no service in re- turn. Kindness is the loving of others and asking no answering love. Kind ness is not eye for eye, tooth for tooth aud measure for measure; it has little to do with the standards that are found in the bargains of trade. It goes to soothe sorrow, and it does more than soothe 1t. It goes to relieve pain, and it does more than relieve it. Kindness is going to the rescue of others when they most need the rescue. It is making up in the char acter of others what is their lack. If one has an angry disposition, kindness lends it's sweetness and suitability of temper. If one is harsh in his judg- ments and cynical in his speech,
 KINDNESS THROWS OUT ITS MANTLE of charity and covers the roughness. If one is ignorant or stupid or low minded or mean, kindness always has word that excuses the lack and hand out stretched to help the fallen rise. Kind ness is that noble, Godlike quality in man which if diffused everywhere like the sunshine, if as common in the market and the shop as the small coins of trade, would remodel this world and change it and renovate it and transform it,till there should De baseness and backbiting and jealousy and underhand dealing no long, CT; but from pole to pole, from zone to zone, from city to city, from hearthstone to hearthstone, from lip to lip and from heart to heart, this great round globe should breathe and pulsate with the very thought of God.
 AND, AFTER ALL,
 r.; ia, hot Ct !, born; it is the rustic of an angels wing. it is the holy light of a seraphs counten. ance, it is the radiance of Jesus smile, il is the very spirit and atmosphere ot Heaven.
 You stand before the great painting by | Munkacski, the Russian artist, entitled "Christ before Pilate." You cannot takt it all in with one glance, so you sit dowr before it and study now this part, now that. You are interested in the expres sion on the face of the Saviour, as Ht stands there, so calm and self-composed His blamelessness of life giving swee peace to His soul, He the real Judge, Pi late the convicted. You are intent il studying the portraiture of Pilate, thu weak and cowardly ruler, wholly want ing the courage to carry out
 HIS CONVICTIONS, HIS CONSCIENCE
 directing the right course, but his failing to follow it because wishing to pleas the people; and then you observe tn attitude of the Roman soldiers near by | yxyif rtc nd ;pIs unmOved by the solemn scene. The pie ture is one matchless whole; but ther, are many points from which it can b. viewed, and so it is with this royal virtu of kindness.
 Let us then examine it, taking for ou point of view kind words. Words are tn expression of ourselves. Words are tn ambassadors of the soul, words are tn messengers of the heart; and, let m stand in the presence of man five min utes and hear him talk with his friend on any subject you please, I'll tell yo1 what sort of a man he is.
 l IF HE GETS ANGRY
 without cause, I would not put him dowl as a man of gentle disposition; if h. speaks foolishly and makes wild state ments that he could not support, woult not praise him as thoughtful man; he intersperses his speech with foul oath and irreverent use of the holy name O God, I certainly would not regard him a a Christian man. Your words, look ou tor them; they betray you. A ragged coat does not reveal character; under i may beat the purest heart. A pretty fac, or flashing eye or pleasant smile or ruddy lip does not indicate character; al these may be made the direct servants o sin, and all the more subtle and danger Ous because they are so attractive. Blu words do reveal the character, ,and that il WHAT CHRIST MEANT
 when he said, But I say unto you, tha every idle word that men shall speak they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment" The idle word is not tt be judged; it is the mean, evil and wick ed heart back of the idle word out of tht depths of which the idle word proceed eth.
 What a tremendous power for good o evil is shut up in the tongue! Have yot ever seriously thought how dangerous { thing the tongue is to let have iGs owr way? The position of the tongue ough to show us something in regard to this Above it and below it is row of ivory sentinels holding guard; it is flanked or