THE K I N G ’ S BUS I NESS test of a young man’s character is how he treats the home folks. I heard of a young man in college whose father came to see him and because he was not dressed in the latest style, the son was ashamed of him. One of his col lege mates asked him who the man was that was , with him, and he said “ that is an oid neighbor of ours.” Kindness Wins at Home or Abroad. When the Moravian missionaries went to Greenland they were unable during the first year to make any impression whatever. Then came an awful epidemic of small-pox in which multitudes were prostrated, and the missionaries went about among them, ministering to their bodies and souls in the Master’s name. After that the way was clear. The people said, “ You have nursed us in our sickness; you have cared for us in distress; you have bur ied our dead, now tell us of your relig ion.” Kindness Begets Kindness. David is now King and he cannot forget the kindness that Jonathan bore to him, so he inquires if there be any that are left that he might show kind ness to. He asked the question of an only family servant, “ Is there any one to whom I can show kindness for Jona than’s sake?” And the servant said, “ There is a boy by the name of Mephi- bosheth who is lame in his feet,” and David had him brought and gave him a place at the king’s table. General Havelock, when questioned concerning the secret of his unique influ ence over the brave soldiers of his regi ments, answered, “ I keep close to them. I come personally into contact with each man, and know the name of every individual.” While Abraham Lincoln was riding home from court with a company of lawyers he espied two little birds by the roadside that had been blown out of their nest. He dismounted and searched for the nest and the mother.
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Half and hour later he overtook his brother lawyers, who laughed at him. But in a most serious tone Lincoln said to them, “ Gentlemen, I could not have slept tonight if I had not given those birds back to their mother.” Then spoke out the big loving heart which afterward throbbed in sympathy for a whole race that lay suffering by the wayside— wronged and wounded by a A poor Macedonian soldier was one day leading before Alexander a mule laden with gold for the King’s use. The beast being so tired that he was not able either to go forward or sustain the load, the mule driver took it off and carried it himself, with great dif ficulty, a considerable way. Alexander seeing him just sinking under the bur den, and about to throw it on the ground, cried out, “ Friend, do not be weary yet, try to carry it quite through to thy tent for it is all thine own.” Joseph did this kindness for his brethren and when he came to die they promised to carry his bones back home with them when God delivered them out o f Egypt. Hundreds of years pass by and the descendents of Joseph’s breth ren took his bones back to Canaan. Gen. 50:25; Josh. 24:52. Kindness begets kindness. Gen. 47:1. Joseph told Pharaoh. Joseph furnishes a beautiful example of a man who could bear equally well the extremes of prosperity and advers ity. Dearly as he loved COMMENT his father and anxiously FROM MANY as he desired to provide SOURCES for the whole family, he would not go into the arrangements he had planned until he had obtained the sanction of his royal master.— Faucett. Joseph is a saint and a politician. His shrewdness is never craft. Sagacity is not alien to consecration.— Maclaren. My father and hundred years of bondage. Kindness Brings Its Beward
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