Arizona republican., 1917-08-13
K|NDL|NESS OF
 THE CHRISTIAN

Dr. Ray Clarkson Harker at the union services at the Y. stadium last night.
 Prov. 1922. That which maketh a man to be desired is his kindness"
 Col. 3:12: Put on kindness"
 He said. Our subject tonight is Kindness. Kindness is love in motion, as righteousness is holiness in action. A kind heart is akin to God. When we are kind, we are Christlike Gods kind ness is his love moving toward us.
 Kindness looks for no pay. Je%'s aid: When thou makest a feast, call the poor the maimed, the lame, the blind, and thou shalt be blessed; for they cannot recompense thee If ye love them that love you, what thank have ye?' This is to say that kindness is unselfish.
 Need of kindness: There is need of kindness, even toward the brute ere ation. l do not mean that married women are to get poodle dogs and buy blankets for them, and goggles and rub Der boots, while there are orphan chil- dren that have no shoes, and no blank cts, and no money for a doctors care for defective eyes. We do not want the poodledog fad, but we do want kind treatment for all the brute creation. We should avoid the torture of those ami mals that we find it necessary to kill for protection of human kind.
 The Buddhist priests startled the American people in the Parliament of Religions in Chicago a few years ago | by saying, You Christians are cruel to animals" A New York merchant boasted that in a recent season he had killed 10000 birds in Florida for mil ! 1iy7nr I hnx hot looks to Him of whom it is said: Not sparrow falls without his notice
 We must be kind to people. The world is dying for kindness. KindneH to children is always beautiful.
 You may have heard this incident 1T Henry Ward Beecher's life. He hat preached his last sermon. The grea congregation had gone. The choir re. mained to practice. They sang: heard the voice of Jesus say Two little ragged street waifs heard the music anc ventured into the great church. Beech CT was tired an dweary. | Ut he walked down the aisle, put his arm around eacl waif, stopped down and kissed them and walked out :1to the street, leaving forever the place where he had pi cached the gospel. We enshrine that act 0 kindness in our hearts.
 Not long ago a well-dressed girl il San Francisco threw herself oVer thu breakwater into the bay and wa drowned before she could be rescued. policeman had noticed her on the shor Ia few moments before, apparent. scribbling something with a stick in tn
 wet sand. Thinking it might give hin a cleW as to who she was or why sh
 had drowned herself he went to tn
 spot and made out these words: 'Dais. loves kindness; she does not get mucl
 of it in this world"
 "The great heart of pity is needed il our world war. What desolation ther is in Europe now, and will be in thi
 country of the war continues.
 man from Australia went to West minister Abbey and heard the arch , bishop preach the coronation sermon fo
 King George The text was: I am i the midst of you as he that serveth | Not long after. this man going hom from a function in London, lost his wa , and wandered into an alley. and ther in the heart of London at midnight, h found boy sitting on a doorstep wit his little sisster in his lap. He ha taken off his coat and had wrapped about his sister to keep her warm. Tha is picture of kindness and service. W must learn this lesson of kindness nor
 and more.
 "The power of kindness: The huma
 heart responds to kindness. In a cer
 tain hotel a room clerk gets a remark
 able salary. He can stow people ava
 in hooks and corners and make them fet . comfortable. One morning he found
 customer pacing the office in bad tenn per- He said a. cheery good mornin
 but got a gruff reply. When did yo come in?' Last night T hope yo have a good room I have not The
 sent me up to thunder and there is nc n room in my quarters to swing cal n oh, that stupid night clerk did nt
 know you brought your cat with yo j I'll manage it after breakfast. You sha = have room big enough to swing ha e a dozen cats" The customer laught @ and went in to breakfast.
 r 1.-TWO young women of one of IT = Chicago churches started out to help u - poor of our section of the city. The
 prayed for guidance. Soon they can | Ito a door where the man was out : work. The mother was sick. Tn Il morning that mother had prayed "Go e send some messenger of thine for relic '- Work was gotten for that man. IT d sick woman was ministered unto. In