Connecticut western news., 1901-09-26


 this world until have taken venge- ance upon every man that ever did me a wrong by doing him kindness.
 Let us all pray for this spirit of kind ness. It will settle a thousand ques- tions. It will change the phase of ey- erything. It will mellow through and our entire nature. It will lifetime. It Is not feel ing got up for occasions, but peren- nial. That is the reason like petunias better than morning glories. They look very much alike, and If should put in your hand petunia and morning glo- ry you could hardly tell which was 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 wide spread a glow at 12 o'clock at noon and 6 o'clock In the evening as at sunrise. And this grace of kindness Is not spas modic, 1t Is not intermittent, Is not for a little while, but 1t irradiates the whole nature all through and clear on till the sunset of our earthly existence.
 Kindness. I am resolved to get 1t. Are you resolved to get It? It does not come by haphazard, but through cul- ture under divine help. Thistles grow without culture. Rocky mountain sage grass grows without culture. Mullen stalks grow without culture. But that great red rose in the conservatory, its leaves packed on leaves, deep dyed as though it had been obliged to fight for .ts beauty and it were still reeking with the carnage of the battle, that rose needed to be cultured, and through long years its floral ancestors were cul- tured. O God, implant kindness in all our souls, and then give us grace to watch 1t, to enrich 1t, to develop it!
 Royal Flower.
 The king of Prussia had presented to him by the empress of Russia the root of rare flower, and 1t was put in the royal gardens on an island, and the head gardener, Herr Fintleman, was told to watch 1t. And one day 1t put forth it's glory. Three days of every week the people were admitted to these gardens, and a young man, probably not realizing what a wrong thing he was doing, plucked this flower 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 no more his gardens to the public. The king replied: Shall I deny to the thou sands of good people of my country the privilege of seeing this garden because one visitor has done wrong? No; let them come and see the beautiful grounds" And when the gardener wished to give the king the name of the offender who had taken the royal flow CT he said, No; my memory Is very and do not want to have in my mind the name of the offender, lest 1t should hinder me granting him fa- vor some other time" Now, I want you to know that kindness Is a royal flower, and, blessed be God, the King of Mercy and Grace, that by divine gift and not by purloining we may pluck this royal flower and not wear it on the outside of our nature, but wear it In our soul and wear 1t forever, its radi- ance and aroma not more wonderful for time than wonderful for eternity.
 Still further, must speak of kind ness of word. When you meet any one, do you say pleasant thing or an un- pleasant? Do you tell him of agreed ble things you have heard about him or the disagreeable? When he leaves you, does he feel better or does he feel worse? Oh, the power of the tongue for the production of happiness or mis- cry! One would think from the way the tongue Is caged in we might take the hint that 1t has a dangerous pow CT. First, it Is chained to the back part of the mouth by strong muscle. Then it Is surrounded by the teeth of the lower jaw, so many ivory bars, and then by the teeth of the upper jaw, more ivory bars. Then, outside of all, are the two lips, with the power of compression and arrest. And yet, not withstanding these four imprisonments or limitations, how many take no hint ln regard to the dangerous power of the tongue, and the results are lacera- tion, scarification and damnation! There are those if they know good thing about you and a bad thing will men, ton the bad thing and act as though they had never heard the good thing. Now, there are two sides to almost ev- cry one's character, and we have the choice of oyerhauling the virtue or the vice. We can greet Paul and the ships crew as they come up the beach of Malta with the words; "What sorry looking set you are! How little of nav igation you must know to run on these rocks! Didn't you know better than to put out on the Mediterranean this win. try month? 1t was not much of shiI anyhow or 1t would not have gone tc
 pieces so soon as that. Well, what d,
 you want? We have hard enough worl
 to make living for ourselves withou
 having thrust on us PFC ragamuffins. Not so said the Maltese. I think the, said: Come in! Sit down by the fir and warm yourselves. Glad that yo' all got off with your lives. Make your selves at home. You are welcome t all we have until some ship comes Il
 sight and you resume your voyage Here, let me put a bandage on you forehead, for that Is an ugly gash yo got from the floating timbers. An
 here is man with broken arm. W will have doctor come to attend t | this fracture" And, though for thre months the kindness went on, we hay little more than this brief record: ''Th barbarous people showed us no littl | kindness"
 Power of Kindness.
 Oh, say the cordial thing! Say th
 useful thing! Say the hospitable thing
 Say the helpful thing! Say the Chris
 like thing! Say the kind thingl adm
 that this easier for some temper,
 ments than for others. Some are bor | pessimists, and some are born opt
 mists, and that demonstrates itself a
 through everything. It is a cloud
 morning. You meet a pessimist, an
 you say, What weather todayw H
 answers, Its going to storm," an ! umbrella uuder arm and wafprpro.