The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1901-09-28

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lions. and it would dull every sword
until it 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 blast
ing or pyrotechnic celebration. Kind
ness is a spirit divinely implanted and
in answer to prayer, and then to be
sedulously cultivated until it fills all
the nature with a perfume richer and
more pungent than mignonette, and,
as if you put a tuft of that aromatic
beauty behind the clock on the mantel
or in some corner where nobody can
see it, you find people walking about
your room looking this way and that,
and you ask them: What are you
looking fol? ?" and they "Where
is that iower?" So if one has in his
soul this infinite sweetness of DISPOSE
ton its perfume will whelm every
thing.
Let US all pray for the spirit of kind
ness. 1t will settle a thousand ques-
tions. 1t will change the phase Of ev-
erything. 1t will mellow through and
through our entire nature. 1t will
transform a lifetime. 1t is not a feel
ing got up for occasions, but perennial.
That is the reason | like petunias bet
ter than morning glories. They look
very much alike, and if 1 should put in
your hand a p%etunia and a morning
glory you could hardly tell which is
the petunia and which the morning
glory. But the morning glory blooms
only a few hours and then shuts up
for the day, while the petunia is in as
widespread a glow at 10 o'clock at
noon and six o'clock in the evening as
at sunrise. And this grace of kind
ness is not spasmodic, it is not inter
mittent, is not for a little while, but
it irradiates the whole nature all
through and clear on till the sunset
of our earthly existence.
Kindness! l 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. Thistles
grow without culture. Rocky noun
tain sage grass grows without culture.
Mullen stalks grow without culture.
But that great red rose in the con-
servatory, its leaves packed on leaves,
deep dyed as though it had been
obliged to fight for its beauty and it
were still reeking with the carnage of
the battle, that rose needed to be cul-
tured. and through long years its
floral ancestors were cultured. OGod,
implant kindness in all our souls and
then give us grace to watch it, to en-.
rich it, to develop it!
Still further, l must speak of kind.
ness of word. When you meet any.
one, do you say a pleasant thing OF
an unpleasant? Do you tell him oil
an agreeable thing you have heard
about him or the disagreeable? Wher
he leaves you does he feel better OF
does he feel worse? Oh, the power
of the tongue for the production o.
happiness or misery! One would thinl
from the way the tongue is Gagged il
we might take the hint that it ha!
a dangerous power. First it i!
chained to the back part of tn
mouth by strong muscles. Then it i
surrounded by the teeth of the lowe
jaw, so many ivory bars, and thel
by the teeth of the upper jaw, NOR,
ivory bars. Then, outside of all, ar,
the two lips, with the power of com
preston and arrest. And yet, not
I wit~hstanding these four imprison
; ments or limitations, how many tax
l no hint in regard to the dangerou
: power of the tongue, and the result
are liberation, scarification an,
. damnation.
. Oh, say the cordial thing! Say tn
useful thing. Say the hospitabl
+ thing. Say the helpful thing. Sa
the Christlike thing. Say the kin
thing. ! admit that it is easier flo
=, some temperaments than for other.
-, Some are porn pessimists, and som
= are born optimists, and that demon
! s~trates itself all through everythin,
: 1t is a cloudy morning. You meet
pessimist, and you say: what weatl
= er to-day?" He w Its q
!, ing to Storm" and umbrella unde
arm and waterproof coat show ths
he is honest in that u%tterance. o
, the same block, a minute after, yo
meet an optimist, and you say: "Whs
do you think of the commercial pro
pects?" and he says: "Gloriou
Crops not so good as usual, but TO
eign demand will make big price
We are going to have such an autumn
! and winter of prosperity as we ha'
: never SEEN" On your way back
your store you meet a pessimist me
chant: what do you think of I'll
;, commercial prospects," you ask, al
- he answers: well, / don't kno'
IA Wheat and corn crop blasted in Ka
sas and Missouri, and the gra
gamblers will get their fist in, al
the nay crop is short in some place
-, and in the southern part of Wisco
A. sin they had a hailstorm, and o
business is as dull as it ever was
II You will find the same difference
20 judgment of character. A man
~ good reputation is assailed al
# charged with some evil deed. At t,
IN first story the pessimist will belle
in guilt. "The papers said so, al
al that's enough. Down with him
The optimist will say: 81 don't
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