Peninsula enterprise. [volume] (Accomac, Va.) 1881-1965, 1901-09-28
ACCOMAC c. H., VA SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 2S, 1901.

| traitor the liar, the villain" But five
or ten minutes Of the feeling has been
so unnerving and exhausting | have
abandoned 1t, and cannot understand
how people can go about torturing
themselves Ave or ten or twenty years,
trying TO get even with somebody. The
only way you will ever triumph over
your enemies is by forgivIng them and
wishing them all good and no evil. AS
malevolence Is the most uneasy and
proftless and dangerous feeling. kind
ness Is the most healthful and delight
| full. And this Is not an abstraction.
AS have tried d little Of the retaia-
tory feeling. so | have tried a little Of
! the forgiying. | do not want to leave
this world until l 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. 1t will settle a thousand ques-
tions. 1t will change the phase Of ev-
erything. II will mellow through and
through our entire nature. 1t will
transform a lifetime. 1t is not feel
ing got up for occasions. but peren-
NAL. That is the reason like petunas
better than morning glories. They look
very much alike, and II should put In
your hand petunla 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 glow at II o'clock at noon and
6 o'clock I'm the evening as at sunrise.
And this grace OF kindness is not spas.
modc, 1t is not intermittent. is not for
little while, but 1t irradiates the
whole nature al through and clear on
till the sunset of our earthly existence.
Kindness, | am resolved to get It,.
Are you resolved to get It? 1t does not
come by haphazard. but through cu!-
ture under divine belp. 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 II had been Obliged to fight for
Its beauty and it were still reeking with
| the carnage OF the battle. that rose
needed to be cultured. and through
long years It's floral ancestors were cul
tured. 0 God. implant Kindness IN
all our souls. and then give us grace to
watch Ii, to enrich II. to develop ii.
Royal Flower.
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 wrong thing he
was doing, plucked this flower and put
1t in bis buttonhole, and the gardener
arrested him as he was crossing at the
ferry and asked the king to throw open
no moro his gardens 70 the pablic Tue
king replied: "Shall | deny to the thou
sands OF good people Of my country the
privilege of seeing this garden because
| one visitor has done wrongl 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
er lie said, nc; my memory Is very
tenacious, and do not want to have in
my mind the name of the offender, lest
it should hinder me granting him IA
vor some other time" Now. ] 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 purloiniug we may pluck
this royal flower and not wear 1t on the
outside OF our nature, but wear 1t In
our soul and wear it forever, its rad!-
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 a pleasant thing or an un.
pleasant? Do you tell him OF agreea-
BILE things you have heard about him or
the dlsagreeable? When be leaves you.
does he feel better or does be feel
worse7 Oh the power Of the tongue
for the production Of happiness or mis-.
cry! One would think from the wey
the tongue Is Gagged in we might take
the hint that It has dangerous pow
er. 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
wlthstanding these four imprisonments
or limitations. how many take no hint
In regard to the dangerous power OF
the tongue, and the results are lacera'
ton. scarihcatlOn ard damnation. There
are those II 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 ey'
cry ones character, and we have the
choice OF overhauling 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 a sorry
looking set you are. How little Of nav.
| igation you must know to run on these
rocksl Didn't you know better than to
put out on the Mediterranean this win
try month? 1t was not much Of ship
anyhow or II would not have gone to
pieces so soon as that. Well, what do
you want7 We have hard enough work
to make living for ourselves without
having thrust on us 276 ragamutfins."
Not so said the Maltese. think they
said: "Come In! Sit down by the fire
and warm Yourselves Glad that YOU