The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1901-09-27

for have tried 1t for five or ten min
utes at a time. When some mean
thing has been done me or said about
me, / have felt: IT will pay him In
his own coin. l will show him up.
The migrate! The traitor! The liar!
The villainl" But five or ten min
utes of the feeling has been So. nn=
nerving and exhausting l have aban-
doned II, and l cannot understand how
people can go about tortufing them
selves five or ten or twenty years.
trying to get even with someB0dys.
The only way yuu will eyer--triumph
over your. -enemies is by forglying
them and wishing them al good AMI
no. evil. AS malevolence is the most
uneasy and profitless and dangerous
Feeling. kindness is the most health
full and delightful. And this is not an
abstraction. AS l have tried little of
the retaliatory feeling, so have tried
a little of the forgiving. l 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 succeeded, but there are
a few malignants whom l am yet pur-
suing, and 1 shall not be content until
have in some wise helped them or
benefited them or blessed them s.
Rare Flower from Royal Garden.
The king of Prussia had presented
to him by the empress of Russia the
root of a rare flower, and it was put
in the royal gardens on an island, and
the head gardener. Herr Fintleman,
was told to watch IT. And one day It
put forth its glory. Three days OF
every week the people were admitted
to these gardens, and young man,
probably not realizing what a wrong
thing hewas doing, plucked this flow
er and put it in his buttonhole; and
the gardener arrested him; as he was
crossing at the ferry and asked the
king to throw open. mo more his gar=
dens to the public. The king replied
Shall I deny to the th5psanfts> of
good people of my country the privi-
Ac5Nf VI pNNllb ILLS Sdl utI DCNduHt OAAt
visitor has done. wropg?. No, let them
come and see the beautiful grounds"
And when the gardener wished to
r give the king the name Of the, offender
who had taken the royal flower. he
said, No, my n.enery, is, Very tepa7
cious, and5f 1dn=n6S :4rant to ':hsrss I'm
my mind the name. of the Offender. lest
1t should hinder me granting him a
favor some other time Now,gT want
you to know that Kindness ISIS royal
flower, and blessed be God, the king
of mercy and grace, that by"a divine
gift, and not by purloining, we may
pluck this royal flower and not wear
1t on the outside of our nature. but
wear 1t on our soul and wear it for
ever, its radiance and aroma not more
wonderful for time than wonderful for
eternity !
Hopeful and Cordial Words. .sss g.
oh, say the cordial thingl Say the
useful thing. Say the hospitable thing.
Say the helpful thing. Say the Christ
like thing. Say the kind thing. l adj
NIT that it is easier for. some tempera-
ments tfan Tor others Some are born
pessimists, and some are born optim-
lists, and that demonstrates Itself all
through everything. 1t isr, a cloudy
morning. You meet sa-pessimlst and
you say, What weather today" He
answers, Its going TO storm" and
umbrella under arm and waterproof
coat show that he is honest in that
utterance. On the same block. a min
!ute after, you meet an optimist. and
you say, What do you think of the
COMMERCIAL prospects Pr and he says.
@GEdrious ,Gtoi4 tbt spsgoadJas usual.
but foreign demand viii make big
prices. We are going ito Have sdch @a;n
autumn and winter. of prosperity as We
haze hever seen" On your way, back
ito1your store you meetra peseimist
merchant. What do you think of the
commercial prospects," you ask. and
he answers, we'll I lilonft (: know.
Wheat and corn crop blasted in Kan
sas and Missouri, and the grain gam
blers will get their fist I'm, and the hay
crop Is snort ina Some places, and in
the southern part of Wisconsin they
had aEhailstorm and our business, is as
dull as it ever was" You will find the
same difference in, jlidgmentso of cbarac-
ter. A man of good reputation is as
sailed and charged with some evil
deed. At-the first story. the. pessinist
will believe in guilt 49,. The, papers said
so, and that's enough. Down with
himr' The optimist will say: Il don't
believe a word of 1t. l don't think that
a man that has been as useful land
seemingly honest for twenty years.
could have got off track like that.
There are two sides to. this story and
/, will wait to hear the other Side be-
fore / condemn him" My heater, -. il
you are by nature a pessimist, make a
special effort. by the grace of God to
extirpate the dolorops andithe hyper
critical from your disposition. Be-
Iiexe nothing against anybody until
the, wrong is established by at least
two witnesses of integrity land, If
guilt Is proved. Find ON the, axtenuat-
ing circumstdnee s. If !, fhhre are any.
Kindness! Let us, morning, noon and
u, A y = g.. = A 60 a. a.. 9, - q .