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TUKPOWKUUl'KhNDNESS
LESSONS FROM PAUL'S RECEPTION
ON THE ISLAND OF MELITA.
ffti tUrharotin I'mplo l lh UUml Vff
a Yet Unrtrriiilrl) nml Hit llix Prompt
ings of Nature llulril Tlirm Klmlnais
Hn;nM''liiwr of I Intl'n limilni.
UtlOMKLYN, Sept, 111. llrooklyn Taber
naclu today contained many httmiKorti on
their way home from tho watering places
nd foreign Inndi. Many of tlio members
absent from tliu city during the summer
wtro In their placet. Tlio church building
nml tlir organ, which httvo been almost
continually under brush nml hammer
since the dedication Inst spring, lira tiovr
itlKiut completed. Thu sermons today were
full of congratulation iintl wore attended
by tho usual throngs. Dr. 't'almago's morn
Inn sermon wns on "Kindness," from tha
text, Acts xxvlll, 12' "Thu barbarous people
bowed u no little, kindness."
My text putJi tut on thu Island of Malta,
another namo for k Mnlltit This Island,
which has always liven uu Important com
mercial center, hulouglugnl different times
to I'hwulcln, to Oreeco, to llomu, to Am
bin, to Spnln, to Primer, now belong to
England. The area of thu Manil Is about
one hundred square miles. It l In the
Mediterranean yea, nml of such clarity of
tmosphcru that Mount Kinn, one hundred
ml thlity miles away, can lm distinctly
ocn. The Island Is gloriously mumorablu,
becnuso tho Knight of Malta for it long
while ruled there, but most famous bo
cause of tho apostolic shipwreck.
The bestormed vessel on which Pnul
nllcd hnd "laid to" on tho starboard tack,
ml tho wind wo blowing cast-northeast,
ud the veMcl drifting probnbly it mile
ml it half nu hour ere she struck nt what
U now called "St. Pnul's bay. Practical
sailors havo taken up the lllblo account
ud decided boyoud controversy tho place
of tho shipwreck. Uut tho Inland which
has so rough it coast is for tho most part a
garden. ltlchest fruit and a profusion of
honey characterised it In Pnul's time as
well as now. Tho finest oranges, (Ik and
olives grow there. When Paul and hut
comrades crawled up on the bench, satur
ated with salt water and hungry from long
abstinence from food and chilled to the
bone, the Islanders, though called bar
barians because they could not speak
Greek, opened their doors to tha ship
wrecked unfortunates.
Everything had gono to the bottom of
the deep, and the barefooted, bareheaded
apostle and ship's crow were In n condition
to .appreciate hospitality. About twenty
live such men it few seasons ago I found in
tho II fo statlou near Easthampton, Long
Island. They bad got nshoro in the night
from tho sea, und not a hat nor shoo had
they left. They found out, na Paul and
his fellow voyagers fouud out, that tho sen
If tpo roughest of all robbers. My text
finds the ship's crew ashore on Malta, and
around a hot Ore drying Uieinielvos, nud
with tha best provision tho (slanders can
offer them.
Ana they go into government quarters
tor three days to recuperate, Publlus. the
TJl$r, Inviting tncra, although he had se
vere sickness tn tho homo at that time
his father down with dysentery and typhoid
fever. Yea, for three months they staid
An tha tataml wAtjitilmf Inr a atitn nn.fl nnt
ttng the hospitalities of the islanders to a Three days of every week the people were
Mveretest. But they endured the test satla- admitted to theso gardens, and a young
Ills soul llil InllnlU sweetness of dlspo
iltlnn It rer'Miii will whelm ever) thing.
TIIK kVIU. OK IU.VKNUKKUL H;hUNO.
Hut If vou are witltlnu and hoping for
some one to lie bankrupted or expoxed or
discomfited, or In any way overthrown, then
klndnM has not taken possession of jour
nature. You arc wrecked on a Malta
where there are no orange. You ate en
tertaining n guest so unlike kindness that
klnducNi will not coniu and dwell under
the tuimo roof. The mntt cxhaufttlng and
unhenllhy and ruinous feeling on earth Is
a revengeful spirit or retaliating plrlt, n
1 know by experlenco, for I hitvu tried It
tho or ten minutes at n tlma When mihio
moan thing has been dnno moor said about
me I have felt "I will pay him In hit own
coin. I will show him up. Tho ingratel
The trnltorl Tho llnrl Tho vlllalnl"
Hut live or ten minutes of thu feeling
hai been mi unnerving ami exhausting
that I have abandoned It, and I ciunntun
ilerManil how peoplu can go about tortur
ing thumnelven live or ten or twenty years,
trying to get uveu with somebody Tlio
only way you will over triumph over your
enemlcft Is by forgiving them nud wishing
them all good and no evil. As mnlevo
loiico Is thu most uneasy and prnlltlefts and
dangerous feeling, kimlucxs is tho moit
healthful and delightful. And this l.s not
nn attraction, As I hnvo tried it little of
the retaliation, so 1 liavu tried it littlu of
the forgiving.
I do not want to leavo this world until I
have taken vougcancu upon every mnu that
ever did mu n wrong by doing him n kind
lie." In most of stichcnscfl I havo already
miceeetled, but there arc it fuw miillgunnu
whom i am yet pursuing, nml 1 shall not
becoutout until I hnvo In somo wlau helped
them or benefited them or blessed them.
lA'tunnll prny for this spirit of kindness.
It will settlo a thousand questions. It will
change tho phase of everything. It will
mellow through and through our entire
nature. It will transform a Ilfetlmo. It Is
not it feeling gotton up for occasions, but
perennial. .
That is tho reason I llko petunias better
than morning glories. They look very
much alike, and If I should put in your
hand a petunia and a morning glory you
could hardly tell which Is tho petunia and
which thu morning glory; but thu morning
glory blooms only a few hours and then
shut up for the day, wlillo tho potuuln Is
in its widespread a glow at twulvo o'clock
t noon and six o'clock in tho evening as
at sunrise. And this graco of kindness Is
not spasmodic, Is not intermittent, Is not
for it little while, but It Irradiates tho
whole nature, all through and clear on
till tho sunset of our earthly existence.
Klndncssl I nm resolved to get It, Are
you resolved to get ItP It docs not coniu by
haphazard, but through culture under tho
divine help. Thistles grow without cul
ture. Rocky mountain sage grass grows
without culture. Mullen stalks grow
without culture. Out that great red rose
In tho conservatory, Its leaves packed on
leaves, deep dyed as though it had been
obliged to fight for its beauty and it were
till reeking with the carnage of the battle,
that rose needed to lo cultured, and
through long years IU floral ancestors wero
cultured. O Ood, Implant klndess In nil
our ouls. and then givo us grace to watch.
ttjto enrich it. to develop hi a
The King of Prussia bad presented to
him by tho empress of Russia the root of a
rare (lower, and It was put In the royal
gardens on an Island, and tho bend gar
dener, Ilerr Fintclmann, was told to watch
it. And one day It put forth its glory.
' thlngl Say the kli.cj thlugl I admit that
this Is easier for some temperaments than
for others. Some are Uiru pesslmlsU, and
soine are Ixirn optimists, ami that demon
strate Itselfall through everything. It Is
a cloudy morning, You meet n pessimist
and you snv, " lint weather toilayf" Ho
answers, "It's going to storm," and urn
hrvlla under nrni and it waterproof over
coat show that lie Is honest In that utter )
nlico. On the same block, a minute after,
you meet nu nptlmlft, and you say, "What ,
weather todayr'" "flood weather; this Is '
only a fog mid will soon scatter" The
absence of uinliiella and absence of water- '
proof overcoat show It In an holiest utter
iinco On your way "t noon to luncheon you
meet nu optimlstlo merchant and jou say,
"What do ) on think of thu commercial
prospect!1" nml ho smjs "Glorious. (Ireat
crop must bring great business. Wo are
going to liaw'sncli nu autumn and ulntti
the young man to ban Hit, and thu whit
haired attorney Is hunting up previous de
cisions and making out a brief for the boy,
Down at thu bank I heard yesterday a
note Mas due, and thu young merchant
could not meet It, and an old merchant
went In and gut for him three mouth' ex
tension, which for the young merchant Is
the difference U-tween bankruptcy nud
sncifss In business Ami In our street Is
an artist who had a lluu picture of the
'Rapldsof N'lagara,' and hu could uotsull It,
and his family weru Hiiirvrlug, and they
themselves weru In tho rapids; nml a lady
heard of It and said, 'I do not need the
picture, but for thu encouragement of art
and helping you out of your distress I will
take It,' nud on thu drawing room wall are
thu 'Rapldsof Niagara.'
TIIK AOK OF IIKI.rFUl.NK8S.
"Do you know that a strange thing ha
taken plate in the pulpit and all thu old
minister are helping thu young ministers,
OIL HEATERS
Hot Air Furnaces,
of prosperity ms we hate never s?cu " On1 and all the old doctors are helping the
your way back to your store you meetn
pessimistic merchant "Whatdoyou think
of the comuienlal prospect)" you ask. I
Ami he answers: "Well, I don't know. So
much grain will snrfi'lulie country. Farm
er have more bushel but lex price, ami '
thegraln gambler will gel their list In. I
There Is the McKiiiley hill, and thu hay '
crop Is short In some places, ami In thu '
southern part of Wisconsin they had n j
hailstorm, and our business I a dull a It i
ever was." You will llml thu same dllTer-1
cure In Judgment of character A man cl
good reputation Is assailed ami charged
with some e II deed At Uiu first story t lit
pessimist will liclluvu III guilt. "The paper
said so, nud that's enough. Down with ,
Mini"
OPTIMIST AND PESSIMIST.
The optimist will sayt "1 don't believe a
word of It. i don't think that a man that
ha been a useful nud seemingly honest i
for twenty years could liavu got olT the
track llku that. There are two sides to tills
story, and I will wait to hear thu othui .
sldu Iwfore 1 condemn him." My hearer, I
It you aru by nature it pessimist, make n'
special effort by the grace of God to extlr- j
pate tho dolorous and thu hypercritical
from your disposition. Ilelluvu notliltiH I
ngainst anybody until tho wrong Is cstab-1
lished by at least two witnesses of luteg-'
rity. And if guilt lie proved, find out the
extenuating circumstances if thcro are.
any.
And then commit to memory so that you '
can quote for yourself andUotu for other
that exquisite thirteenth chapter of First
Corinthians about charity that suffers
lotfft and Is kind, and bopeth nil things
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l.m.uu mi i.rmt i,jr aiiuiu gum. , W!mt Is tlifl miittrrr It
factortly, and It Is recorded for all the ages
of time and eternity to read and hear In
regard to the Inhabitant of Malta, "Tha
barbarous people showed us no little kind
oesa," BIDLK EXAUFLES Or KINDNESS.
Klndnessl What a great won! that Is. It
would take a reed as long as that which
the apocalyptio angel used to measure
heaven to tell tho length, tho breadth, tha
height of that rauulllcent won). It Is a
favorite niblo word, and It Is early launched
In tho book of Genesis, caught up in the
book of Joshua, embraced tn tho book of
Ruth, sworn by In the book of Samuel,
crowned In tho book of Psalms, and en
throned In many places in thu Now Testa
ment. Klndnessl A word uo mora gentle
than mighty. I expect It will wrestlo mo
down before I get through with It, It is
strong enough to throw an archangel. Out
It will be well for us to stand around It,
and warm ourselves by Its glow ns Paul
and his fellow voyagers stood around the
fire on the Island of Malta, where the Mal
tese made themselves Immortal iu my text
by the way they trcnted these victims of the
ea. "The barbarous people showed us no
llttlo kindness."
Klndnessl All definitions of that multi
potent word break down half way. You
ay It Is clemency, benignity, generosity; It
to made. up of good wishes, it Is an expres
sion of beneficence. It is a contribution to
the happiness of others. Some one elso
ayat "Why, I can glvo you n definition of
kindness: It Is sunshine of tho soul, it is
affection perennial, It la a crowning grace,
it is the combination of all graces, It Is
compassion, it Is the perfection of gentle
manliness and womanliness." Are you
all through? You have made a dead fail
ure in your definition. It cannot bo de
fined. But wo all know what It Is, for we
all felt Its power. Somo of you may have
felt It as Paul tolt It, on some coast of
rock as the ship wont to pieces, but morn
of us have again ami agitlu in some awful
tress of life, had cither from earth or
heaven hands stretched out, which
"bowed us no little kindness."
Then Is klndneas of disposition, kind
ness of word, kindness of act, and there Is
Jesus Christ, the Impersonation of all of
them. Klndnessl You cannot affect it,
you cannot play It as a part, yon caunot
enact it, you cannot dramatize It, By the
grace of God you must have It inside you,
an everlasting summer, or rather a com
bination of June and October, the geniali
ty of the one and the tonloof the other.
It cannot dwell with arrogance or spite or
revenge or malevolence. At its first ap
pearance in the soul all theso Amalekltes
i and Gerglshltes and Illttltea and Jebusitcs
must quit, and quit forever.
Kindness wishes everybody well, every
man well, evory woman well, every child
well, every bird well, every horse well,
very dog well, every cat well. Give this
plrit full swing, and you would have no
more need of societies for prevention of
cruelty to aulmals, no more need of pro
tective sewing woman's association, and it
wonld dull every sword until it would not
ut skin deep, and unwheel every battery
till it could not roll, and make gunpowder
of no more uso In the world except for
rock blasting or pyrotechnic celebration.
Kindness Is a spirit divinely implanted,
and iu auswer to prayer, nud then to be
sedulously cultivated until it fills all the
nature wltb a perfume richer nnd more
pungent than mignonette, and, as if you
nut a tuft of that aromatic beauty behind
tha clock on the mantel or iu some corner
where nobody cau see It, you find people
walking about your room looking tills
way and tbut, and you ask them, "What
a you looking fori" And they answer,
"Where is that flowerf" So If one baa 4a
man. nrobably not realising what a wrong
thing be was doing, plucked this flower
and put It In his buttonhole, and the gat
dencr arrested hlmns ho was crossing at tho
ferry, and asked tho king to throw open uo
more his gardens to the public. The king
rcpliedi "Shall I deny the thousands of
good peoplu of my country the privilege of
seeing this garden because ouo visitor has
dona wrong? No, let them come and see
the beautiful grounds."
And when thu gardcuer wished to glvu
tho king thu name of thu offender who had
taken tho royal llower, ho said, "o, my
memory Is very tenacious and I do not
want to havo in my mind tho name of the
offender, lest it should hinder me granting
him a favor somo other time." Now, I
want you to know that kindness Is a royal
flower, and blessed bo God, thu King of
mercy nnd graco, that by a divine gift and
uot by nurlolulng, wo may pluck this royal
flower and not wear It on tho otttsldo of
our unture, but wear It In our soul and
wear It forever, Its radiance nud aroma not
more wonderful for time than wbnderful
for eternity
"KIND WORDS CAN NEVEK DIE."
Still further, I must speak of kindness of
word. When you meet any one do you
say u pleasant thing or an unpleasant? Da
you tell him of ngreentilo tuiugs you nave
heard about him, or the disagreeable?
When he leaves you does he feel better or
does ho feel worse? Oh, the power of the
tongue for the production of happiness or
misery! Ouo would think from thu way
thu tongue- Is caged iu we might taku tho
hint that It has u dangerous power. First,
It Is chained to the back of tho mouth by
strong muscles. Then It Is surrounded by
tho teeth of tho lower Jaw, ko many Ivory
bars, and then by the teeth of tho upper
jaw, more Ivory bars. Then outsldo of nil
are tho two lips with tho power of com
pression nnd arrest, nnd yet notwithstand
ing these four Imprisonment or limita
tions, how many tako uo hint in regard to
tho danucrous power of tho tongue, and
the results nro laceration, aerification and
damnation.
There are those- if they kjiow a good
thing about you nnd a bad thing, will men
tion the bad thing and uct as though they
had never heard the good thing. Now
there are two sides to almost every one's
character, and wo havo the choice of over
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nuuiii irifjtit! j nu citii ilium ui, uuu 11 Lucre i , ,
iju iiuiuiHK l;iiimi, int'ii Hamuli mu ennui ui
musclo on the back end of your tongue, I
nnd keep thu ivory bars of teeth on the
lower Jaw and thu Ivory bars of teeth on the
upper jaw locked and the gnto of your lips I
tightly closed and your tongue shut up.
What it placu Brooklyn would be to live
In, and all tho other cities and neighbor-1
hoods to live In, if charity dominutedl i
What If all tho young nnd old gosslpers I
weredendl The 1ird hasten tholr funerals!
What If tlttle-tnttloand whispering wero
out of fashion! What it In ciphering out
the value of other people's character, tn
our moral arithmetic, wo stuck to addition
Instead of subtraction! Klndnessl Let us
morning, noon and night prny for it until
wo get It, When you can speak n good
word for some one speak It. If you can
conscientiously glvu letter of commenda
tion, give it. Watch for opportunities for
doing good fifty years after you are dead.
All my life has been affected by thu let
ter of Introduction that the Rev. Dr. Van
Vrankcu, of New Brunswick Theological
seminary, wrote for me, a boy under hlm.l
when I was seeking n settlement In which
to preach the Gospel. Tho letter gave mu
my first pulpit. Dr. Van Vrnukcn has
been dead more than thirty years, yet i
feel tho touch of that magnificent old pro
fessor. Strnngu seiibatlon was It when 1 1
received a kind message from Rev. Thomas j
Guard, of Baltimore, tho great Methodist
orator, six weeks after his death. By way
of thu eternal world? Oh, no, by way of .
this world I did uot meet tho friend to
whom he gnvo tho mesago until nearly
two months after Thomas Guard had as
cended. So you can start a word about
young doctors, and the farmer aru nsdnt
lug encli other In gathering thu harvest,
ami for that farmer who I lck thu neigh'
bors have made a 'lice,' as tliey call It, and
tliuy have all turned In to help him get his
crops Into the garner? And tliey tell ma
that the older and more skillful reporters
who have permanent positions on papers
aru helping the young fellows who me Jut
beginning to try and don't know exactly
how to do It. And after a few erasiirts
and Interpolations on thu reporter' pad
they say: 'Now hero Is n readable account
of that tragedy; hand It In nml I am sure
the managing editor will taku It.'
"And I heard this morning of a poor old
man whosu three children weru In hot do
bate as to who should take euro of him In
his declining days. Tho oldest sou declared
It wns his right becnusu he was thu oldest,
and thu youngest sou said it wns his right
because he was thu youngest, nud Mary
snlil it was her right because she beltei
understood father's vertigo and rheuma
tism and poor spell and kuuw letter how
to nurse him, and thu only way thu dilll
culty could be settled was by theold man's
promise that hu would divide thu year into
three parts, and spend it third of his time
with each one of them.
"Ami neighboring stores in tho same line
of goods on tho same block arc acting kind
ly to each other, und when one I a little
short of n certain kind of goods his neigh
bor says, 'I will help you until you can ro
plenlsb your shelves.' It seems to me that
those word of Isaiah are being fulfilled
when he says, 'Thu carpenter encouraged
thu goldsmith and ho that smooths with
I tho hammer, him that smote tho anvil,
the soldering.'
seems to mo our
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world is picking up. Why, tho mil
lennium must Ih coming in. Kindness has
gotten tho victory."
My hearers, yon know nnd I know we
aro far from that state of things. But why
not inaugurate n new dispensation of ge
niality. If wo cannot yet have a millennium
on n large scale, let us havo It on n small
scale, nnd umlerourowu vestments. Klnd
nessl If this world Is over brought to God
that Is tho t hitig that will do It. You can
not fret the world up although you may
fret thu world down. You cannot scold It
Into excellence or reformation or godliness.
FABLE OF TUP. WINDS.
Tho east wind nnd tho west wind wero
one tiny talking with ench other, nnd tho
east wind said to tho west wind: "Don't
?ou wish you had my power? Why, when
start they hall me by storm signals all
along tho coast. I can twist off n ship's
mast as easily as a cow's hoof cracks an
aider. With ouo sweep of my wing I have
strewn tho coast from Newfoundland to
Key West with parted ship timber. I can
lift nnd have lifted tho Atlantic ocean. I
nm the terror of nil Invalidism, and to fight
mo bnck fotests must bo cut down for
fires, nnd the mines of continents are
called on to teed tho furnaces. Under my
breath tho nations crouch Into sepulchres.
Don't you wish you hnd my power?" said
the east wind.
The west wind mado no answer, but
started on Its mission, coming somewhere
out of tho rosy bowers of tho sky, nnd nil
the rivers nnd Inkes and seas smiled at Its
coming. Tho gardens bloomed, nnd the
orchards ripened, and tho wheat fields
turned their sliver Into gold, nnd health
somo one
7..A."... u "'.." .r." I.-"? clnnnedlts hands, nml Joy shouted from
"roTl ngitthu fSnml lm h 'o .IU tops nml tl. nation, lifted their
been sung at your obsequies. Klndnessl foreheads li o ho llg ht.ur. d the earth had
Why. If fifty men nil aglow with It should , K" i1' , ,T L SL?",
walk throuuh thu lost world, methlnks
they would almost abolish perdition.
TOUCIIINO ANECDOTE OK A1UIAIIAM LINCOLN.
Furthermore, there Is kindness of action.
That Is what Joseph showed to his out
rageous brother. That Is what David
showed to MephlboHheth for his father
Jonathan's sake. That Is what Oneslphor
us showed to Paul In the Roman peniten
tiary That I what William Cowper
recognized when he said hu would not
trust a mnn who would with his foot need
lessly crush a worm. That is what our
assassinated President Lincoln demon
them for tho earth, and tho warmth and
the sparkle, nnd the gladness, and tho foli
age, and the flowers and thu fruits, nnd
thu benuty, nnd the life, were the only an
swer tho west wind mnde to tho Insolence
of thu east wind's Interrogation.
Kindness to nil! Surely It ought not to
be a illfllcult graco to culture when we see
towering above tho centuries such an ex
ample that one glimpse ought to melt and
transform all nations Kindness brought
our Lord from heaven. Kindness to mis
creants, kindness to persecutor, kindness
to thu crippled and the blind, anil the cat-
. when his prlvatoUcretary found I AlZT 2 '"li
htm In tho Capitol grounds trying to get a
bird luck to thu nest from wlilcli tt Had
fallen, nnd which quality tho illustrious
man exhibited years before, when having
with somo lawyers in tho carriage on the
way to court passed on tho road a swlno
fast in thu ml re, after awhile cried to his
horses, "Hoi" and said to tho gentlemen,
"I must go back and help that hog out of
tho mire." And ho did go bnck and put
on solid ground that most uninteresting
quadruped.
That wns the spirit that was manifested
by my departed friend, Honorable Alexan
der II. Stephens, of Georgia (and lovelier
man never exchanged earth for heaven),
when at Washington. A senator's wife
who told my wlfo of the circumstances,
aid to him, "Mr. Stephens, como and see
mv dead canary bird." And ho answered,
"No, I could not look at tho poor thing
uauung tuo virtue or tue vice. u can .,,,., ...,,.. That Is the snlrit that
greet Paul aud the ship's crew ns they Gfftnt ho wn nt thu gurremh.r t
COln1 uEm i M. . 1 1 Appomattox hu said to General Lee, "As
words: "What a sorry looking set you nrel , nf , Kn,lllpra nr fnrim.rfl Hlui Wlll
How little of navigation you must know . r,r,i,Il ,i ,.iiPtn r,iiKtliBprot
to keep their families from suffering next
to run on these rocks I uiun't you know
better than to put out on the Mediterra
nean this wintry month? It was not much
of a ship anyhow, or it would not have
gone '.o pieces so soon as that. Well, what
do yo'i want? We have hard enough work
to make a living for ourselves, without
having thrust on us two hundred and seventy-six
ragamuffins."
Not so said the Mnltese. I think they
said; "Come inl Sit down by the fire and
warm yourselves I Glad that you all got ,
off with your lives. Mako yourselves at
borne. You are welcome to all we have
until some ship comes Iu sight and you re
sume your voyage. Here, let me put a
bandage on your forehead, for that Is an
ugly garb you got from the floating tim
bers, and here is a man with a broken arm.
We wlll have a doctor come to attend to
this fracture." Aud though for three
months the kindness went on, we have but
little more thun this brief record, "The
barbarous people showed us uo little kind
uess." Ohl say the cordial tblngl Say the use
ful thlngl Bay the hospitable thlngl Say
tho helpful thlngl Say the Christlllw
winter, let each Confederate who can claim
a horse or a mule take It along with him."
That is the spirit which, last night, teu
thousand mothers showed to their sick
children coming to givo tho drink at tho
twentieth call as cheerfully and ns tenderly
as nt the first call.
Suppose all this assemblage and all to
whom these words shall como by printer's,
type, should resolvu to make kindness nu
overarching, nmlerglrdlng and nil pervad
ing principle of their life, nud then enrry
out thu resolution why, In six mouths the
whole earth would feel Ij People would
say:
'What is tho matter? It seems to me
that thu world Is getting to bu a lietter
place to live In. Why, life after all is
worth living Why, tberu Is Shylock, my
neighbor, has withdrawn his lawsuit of
foreclosure against that man, and liecnuse
he has had so much sickness Iu hi family
he is golug to have the house for one year
rent free. Theieisan old lawyer iu that
vouuu lawyer's office, nnd do you know
what he has gone In there for? Why, be
is helping fix up a case which is too big for J of
nud tho demoniacal characterized him all
the way, nnd on tho cross, kindness to the
ImndltH suffering on tho side of him, nnd
kindness to the executioners while yet
tliev nushed the spear, and hammered tho
spikes, and howled thu blasphemies.
All tho stories of the John Howards nnd
tho Florenro Nightingales aud the Grnco
Darlings and the Ida Lewises palo before
this trnhscendnnt example of him whoso
birth nnd lifo nud death aro the greatest
story thnt tho world ever henrd, nnd tho
t heme of tho mightiest hosnnnn that heaven
ever lifted. Yea, tho very kindness thnt
allowed both hands to bo nailed to tho hori
zontal timber of tho cross with that cruel
thump! thump! now stretches down from
the skies those samo hands filled with balm
for all our wounds, forgiveness for all our
crimes: rescuo for all our serfdoms.
Ami uhlle we take this matchless kind
ness from God, may It be found that we
hnvo uttered our last bitter word, written
our last cutting paragraph, done our last
retaliatory action, felt our last revengeful
heart throb. And it would not be u bad
epitaph for any of us if by tho graco of
God from this time forth we lived such
beneficent lives that tho tombstone's chisel
could appropriately cut upon the plain
slab that marks our gravo a suggestion
from thu text, "Ho shewed us no little
kindness."
But not until the last child of God has
got ashore from tho earthly storms that
drove him on the rocks llko Mediterranean
Euroclydons, uot uutll all tho thrones of
heaven aro mounted, aud all tho conquerors
crowned, aud all the harps and trumpets
aud organs of heaven aru thrummed or
bloWu or sounded, and the ransomed of all
climes and ages aro In full chorus uudcr
the Jubilant swing of angelic baton, and
we shall for thousands of years hove seen
thu river from under the throne rolling
Into the "sea of glass mingled with lire,"
nud this world we now Inhabit shall be bo
far In the ;v.tt ht tnJy u stretch of celes
tial memory can recall that It ever existed
at all, not until then will we understand
what Nehemlnb culls "the great kindness,"
and David culls "tho marvelous kindness,"
and Isaiah calls "theeverlastlug kindness"
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