Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-09-28

smith, and he that smootbed with the
hammer. him that smote the anvil, say.
ing. il is ready for tie soldering What
is the matter! 1t seems 10 me our old
world is picking up Why. the millen-
mum must be coming in. Kindness has
got the victory"
Good and Evil Contrasted.
The east wind and the west wind
were one day talking with each other.
and the east wind said 10 tie west
wind: Don't you wish ,ol Tad my
power? Why, when | start they bail
me by storm signals all along the coast.
1 can twist off ships mast as easily
as a cows hoof cracks al alder. With
one sweep of my wing | hove strewn
the coast from Newfoundland TO Key
West with parted ship timber | can
lift and have lifted the Atlantic ocean.
| am the terror OF all lnyalldlsn. and
down for fires, and the mines OF conti-
nents are called on to feed the fur
naces. Under my breath the nations
crouch into sepulchers. Don't you wish
you had my power?" said the east
wind. The west wind made no answer.
but started on its mission. coming
somewhere out Of the rosy bowers OF
the sky, and all the rivers and lakes
and seas smiled at its coming. The
gardens bloomed. and the orchards rip
ened. and the wheathelds turned their
silver into gold, and health clapped its
hands, and Joy shouted from the bill
tops, and the nations lifted their fore
heads into the light. and the earth had
doxology for the sky and the sky an
anthem for the earth and the warmth
and sparkle and the gladness and the
foliage and the flowers and the fruits
and the beauty and the life were the
only answer the west wind made to the
insolehce Of the east winds interroga-
ton.
Kindness to all! Surely 1t ought not
to be difficult grace to cultivate when
we see towering above the centuries
such an example that one glimpse of 1t
ought to melt and transform all na-
tions. Kindness brought our Lord from
heaven. Kindness to miscreants, kind.
ness to prosecutors, kindness TO the
crippled and the blind and the catalep-
tic and the leprous and the dropsical
and the demonlacal characterized him
all the way and on the cross, kindness
to the bandits suffering on the side Of
him and kindness to the executioners
while yet they pushed the spear and
hammered the spikes and howled the
blasphemies. All the stories Of the
John Howards and the Florence Night
lngales and the Grace Darlings and the
Ida Lewises pale before this transcend
ent example of him whose birth and
life and death are the greatest story
that the world ever heard and the
theme of the mlghtiest hosanna that
heaven ever lifted. Yea. the very kind
ness that allowed both hands to be
nailed to the horizontal timber of the
cross with that cruel thump, thump.
now stretches down from the skies
those same bands filled with balm for
all our wolinds. forgiveness for all our
crimes. rescue for all our serfdoms!
And. willie we take this matchless
Kindness from God, may IL be found
that we have uttered our last bitter
word, written our last cutting para
graph. done our last retallatory action.
felt our last revengeful heart throb.
And ii would not be n bad epitaph for
any Of us If. by the grace Of God, from
this time forth we lived such lene6-
cent lives that TIE to'::b,tone's chlsel
could appropriately cut upon the plain
slab that maras our grave a suggestion
from tie text, "He slowed us 10 little
kindness" Eut not Until the last child
of God has got ashore from the earthly
storms that drove him on the rocks like
Mediterranean Euroclydons, not until
all the thrones Of heaven are mounted
and all the conquerors crowned and all
the harps and trumpets and organs Of
heaven are thrummed or blown or
sounded and the ransomed Of all climes
and ages are in full chorus under the
jubilant swing Of angelic baton and We
shall for thousands Of years have seen
the river from under the throne rolling
into the "sea of glass mingled with
fire" and this world we now inhabit
shall be so far In the past that only
stretch of celestial memory can recall
that 1t ever existed at all, not until then
will we understand what Nehemiah
calls "the great kindness" and David
calls "the marvellous kindness" and
which Isaiah calls "the everlasting
kindness" Of Godv
copyright, 1901, Louis Klopsch, N. ~
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