The Montgomery advertiser., 1901-09-30
DR. TALMAGFS
 SERMON.

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 Washington. Sept 2z.---In this aiss,oursss s,. es Dr. Talmage commerds tns spam sp,,ons. nmity and good teedhs M mat aau spirit; text. Avts xxyiii, q. "rhe harbarous 'peopte showed us no little kindness. ...,., another name for Melita. This island, which has always been an important com. mercial center, belonged at dineIent times to Phoenicia. to GFesce. @ w now % be. Jongs to England. The area oI me isiano is about lO0 square miles. It IS ln the Mediterraneap sea and or n snon GisTay i, nSles e away, can be distinctly seen. The island is 9ioriously memorable because the KniGhts of Malta for a long while ruled spostolic shipwreck. The bestormed yes- sel on which Paul sailed had laid to on the starboard tack, and the wind wae Sy1ftink G1i probably a mile and a half an hour, she struck at what Is now called St. Paul's bay. Practical sailors have taken up the Bible account and decided beyond But the island, which has so rough. a coast fs for the most part garden. Richest fruits and profuslon of honey characterized 1t in Pauis time as well as now. The finest oranges, figs and When Paul and his comrades crawled the 6sasn toss sna ana susy s
 
 ed to the bone. the islanders. though call ed sbarbartans because they could not speak Greek opened their doors to the siipwrecked unfortunates. Everything had gone to the bottom of the deep, ana the barefooted, bareheaded apostle and ships crew wers in a condition to appre iaen few yeas ago found in the life station near East Hampton, Long Island They had got ashore in the night from the ses and not hat or seSs had and t1sy Sis fellow voyagers found out, that the seq IS the toughest of all robbers. My text hnds the ship's crew ashore on Malta and around a hot fire drying themselves and with the best provision the islanders can offer them. And they go into govern ment quarters for three days to recrper- though he had severe sickness in the dangerous illness. Yea, for three sor snsS sS,p '' and pn pnttns t n the Sosps
 lies of the Islanders to a severe test. Sut 1t endured tho test satisfactorily, and and eternity to read and hear in regard to the inhabitants of Malta, The bar Saross people showed us no little kins-
 A Magnificent Word. Kindnessl Wfat a great word that is! which the apocsiyrtis angel used to measure heaven to tell the length, the breadth, the height of that munincenl word. It is a favorite Bible word. and 1t Is early launched in the Book of Gene sis caught up in the book of Joshua, embraced in the book of Ruth, sworn by In the book of Samuel, crowned in the book of Psalms and enthroned in many places in the New Testament. Kindness. A word no more gentle than mighty. ! aspect 1t will wrestie me down neIore get through with it. It is strong nnouSh to throw an archangel. But 1t VIII ne well fer us to stand around it and warm ourselves by it's eiow as Paul and ms fel. low voyagerS steod around the 1re on the island of Malta, where the Maltese made thems elves immortal in my text by the way they treated their victims of the sea. The barbarous people showed us Kindness! All definitions of that naul' tipo ent word break down half way. You 1t is made up of good wishes: 1t is an expression of benehuence;. 1t is con tribution to the happiness Of others ; Some sss sey' ay k,pSnes: it cin IS san shine of the soul; 1t Is affection perennial it tS a climAeteric grace; 1t is the com, bination of all graces; 1t is compression You have made dead 4ailure,. in youl definition. It cannot be defned but " its power. Some of you may have fei it as Paul felt it. on some coast ot rocl as the ship went to pieces, but more 70
 
 stress of life had either from earth ol heaven hands stretched out which show ed us no little kindness"
 There Is kindness of disposition, kind ness of word. Kindness of act. and thert Is Jesus Christ. the impersonation of al of them. Kindness! You cannot a4ec' it. You cannot play n It ,annot as p@T1 drsmatia, it. By the grace of God you must have it inside you. an everlasting summer. or rather, a combination of June and OctO' Aor ha nf tonic of the other. It cannot dwell with arro gance or spite or revenge or malevolence At It's first appearance in the soul al Hittites and Jebusites must quit. and qui forever Kindness wishes everybody wei .-every man well. every woman well. eH' cry child well. every bird well. every horse well, every dog well, every cat well Give this spirit full swing and you would have no more need of societies for pre- need of protective sewing woman's asso. .rIatioHa. and 1t would dull every swort until 1t would not cut skin deep, ana un wheel every battery till It couio not 1 roil Il the world except for rock blasting ol pyrotechnic celebration Kindness IS Epirit divinely implanted and Tn answer 10 prayer, and then to be sedulously eui .ivatcd until it fills all the nature with perfume richer and more pungent thar mignonette, and. as If you put a tuit C, q on the mantel or in some corner where nobody can see 1t, you find people walk ing about your room looking this way anC that. and you ask them, What are you looking for%' and they answer, fWhert ia that aower?" so if one has In his sou this infinite sweetness of disposition iti perfume will whelm everything.
 The Grace of Forgiveness.
 Rut are YOU waiting and hoping fol sume one 10 Ee bankrupted or exposed oi dIscomfited or in some way overtnroWr then kindness has not taken possession of your nature. You are wrecked on ; Malta where there are no oranges. fol are entertaining a guest 50 unlike Klno ness that kindness will not come an' dwell under the same rooh The most ex hsustinS and unhealthy and ruinous spir 1t on earth is a revengeful spirit or re taIiating spirit as I know By experience for I have tried 1t for five or ten Hln utes at a time. When some mean thini has been done me or said about me.
 have felt: II will pay him in his ow coin. I will show him up. The ingrats The traitor! The liar! The villain Bu f1ve or ten minutes of the feeling ha been so unnerving and eXharPting hay abandoned 1t, anG l cannot understan how people can go about tortuFing them selves Ave or ten O. twenty years, tryin way you will ever triumph over you enemies is by forgiving them and wish ing them all good and no evil. As male violence is the most uneasy and profitles and dangerous feeling, kindness Is tn most healthful and delightful. And thi little of the retaliatory feeling. so hay tried a little of the forgiving. l do nc want to leave this world until have ta ken vengeance upon every man thaf eve dir 'we e wrcng by doing him kindness In most of such cases | have alreauy sut