Milford chronicle. [volume] (Milford, Del.) 1878-1974, 1901-09-27
MILFORD DEL FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 27 1901
VOT. XIV NO. q. WHOLE NUMBER 1912

me 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 prof
itless aud dangerous feeling. kindness IS
the most healthful and delightful. And
this is not an abstraction. As / have
tried a little of the retaliatOry feeling, SO
| have tried a little Of the forgiving. l
do not want to leave this world until l
have taken vengeance upon every man
that ever did me a wrong by doing him
kindness. In most of such cases l have
already succeeded. but there are a few
malignants whom I am yet pursuing, and
| shall not be content until have in some
wise helped them or benefited them or
blessed them.
Let us all pray for the spirit of kind
ness. It will settle a thousand questions
1t will change the phase of everything. 1t
will mellow through and through our en-
tire nature. 1t will transform a lifetime.
1t is not a feeling got up for occasions,
but perennial. That is the reason l like pc
! tunias better than morning glories. They
| look very much alike, and if l should put
| in your hand petunia 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 y o'clock at noon and g o'clock
| in the evening as at sunrise And this
grace of kindness is not spasmodic, It is
not intermittent, is not for little while,
but it irradiates the whole nature all
| through and clear on till the sunset Of
our earthly existence.
Kindness! | am resolved to get It.
Are you resolved to get it? It does not
come by haphazard, but through culture
under the 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 1t had been obliged TO fight for its
benuty and il were still reeking with the
carnage of the battle, that rose needed &c
be cultured, and through long years its
floral ancestors were cultured. . God
implant kindness in all our souls and theI
give us grace to watch it, to enrich 1t, t
develop it!
Rare Flower From Royal Garden.
The king Of Prussia had presented t.
him by the empress Of Russia the root Of
n rare flower and it was put in the roya
gardens on an island, and the head gar
dener, Herr Fntleman, was told to watcl
, it. And one day it put forth its glory
, Three days Of every week the peOpL
were admitted to these gardens, and
young man, probably not realizing wha
: a wrong thing he was doing. plucked thi
/ flower and put it in his buttonhole, an
2 the gardener arrested him as he was cross
T., ing at the ferry and asked the king
e throw open no more his gardens to til
] public. The king replied: "Shall l den
' to the thousands of good people Of m
: country the privilege of seing this garde
t because one visitor has done wrong? NJ
$ let them come and see the beautifI
t grounds" And when the gardener wisl
It ed to give the king the name Of the o
/. fender who had taken the royal flower
8 said mo; my memory is very tenaciou
e and / do not want TO have in my miu
, the name of the offender lest it shou
,, hinder me granting him n favor some otl
5. or time" Now, ! want you to know thi
e kindness is a royal flower, and blessed
z God. the king Of mercy and grace, TIL
a by divine gift, and not by purloining, v
ny pluck this royal flower and not we
IN the outside of our nature, but we
ii "a in our soul and wear it forever.
l. radiance and aroma not more wOnderf
10 Cor time than wonderful for eternity.
Still further, l must speak of kindne
of word. When you meet any one,
9, you say pleasant thing or an unpleG
- ant? Do you tell him of agreeable thin
70 you have heard about him or the d
~ agreeable? When he leaves you, does
I. II n
- the power of the tongue for the prodl
~ ton Of happiness or misery! One wou
think from the way the tongue is Gag
ly in we might take the hint that it has
~, dangerous power. First it is chained
~, the back part of the mouth by stro
~, muscle. Then it is surrounded by
teeth of the lower jaw. so many i've
bars, and then by the teeth of the upl
oh jaw, more ivory bars. Then, outside
T. all, are the two lips, with the power
~, compression and arrest. And yet, 4
- withstanding these four imprisonme
or or limitations, how many take no hint
go regard to the dangerous power Of
~, tongue, and the results are lacerati
no scarifcation and damnation. There
nc those if they know a good thing alb
you and bad thing will mention
~, never heard the good thing. Now, tn
ity. are two sides to almost every oil
~ character, and we have the choice
on ovcrhauling the virtue or the vice.
10 can greet Paul and the ships crew
i've they come up the beach of Malta Y
nm, mn the words: "What a sorry looking
ioi. you are! How little of navigation
a,,, must know to run on these rO
~. Didn't you know better than to put
80, 80 on the Mediterranean this wintry MOI
10 1t was net much of ship anyhow, {
,onr would not have gone to pieces as sooi
we that. Well. what do you want?
eoIt have hard enough work to make Ii
soit for ourselves without having thrust
,,ol, Us 27G ragamufIins." Not SO said
a Of Maltese. think they said: Come
,,.r,l Sit down by the fire and warm }
\ or selves. Glad that you all got off
NV your lives. Make yourself at h
You are welcome to all we have
Lind some ship comes in sight and you res
there
# all Sour voyage. Here, let me put
lffcct age on your forehead, for that !
You ugly cash you got from the floating
atize bers. And here is man with bl
have arm; we will have a doctor come
I, Or tenu TO lllS llaclure' ANU thOuS
Octo- three months the kindness went Oh
tonic have little~more than this brief re
AFRO 1.-THE barbarous people showed US l
lcnce. tie Kindness.
III all Hopeful and Cordial Words
and Oh, say the cordial thing! Say tn
d quit full thing. Say the hospitable thing.
: well the helpful thing. Say the Chr
Il, eT- thing, Say the kind thing. l admi
every it is easier for some temperaments
we'll for others. Some are born pessi
would and some are born optimists, anC
r pre- demonstrates itself all through
more thing. 1t is cloudy morning. Yol
asso- a pessimist. and you say, "What W
sword today?" He answers, ITS goi
nd IN | .to,.,,, - opd ,,r,brollo undor arm NJ