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THE KJfiVIEW, iUGH POINT, NORTE CAROLINA DEC. 7, 1916
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HELPFUL KINDNESS.
An Article Appropriate to the Christmas
Spirit of "Good Will."
(Written for The Review.)
Kindness requires that we give some
thing something that is needed and
helpful and our gifts may be as varied
as the promptings of the heart and mind
may suggest and the exigency of the
need demands. And we should always
bear in mind that it is not so much what
we give as the manner in which we give
it the motive which prompts the act
and the spirit in which it is done that
makes it helpful more often than the
There are just three forms of kind
ness, but many ways of being kind and
giving the best there is of us.
We may think kindly and thus give
kind thoughts. .Here we have the be
ginning and the life of all good as ex
pressed in our human relations of this
life. Kindness to do good and be help
ful, must come from the heart, guided
and controlled by the force of reason.
No matter what may be the nature of
our gift, it should be prompted by the
kindness of thought and any gift so
enriched will go forth in word and deed
to bless and to cheer some ne?dy one
and bring gratitude and equal blessings
upon the giver.
We may also speak kindly and so
give kind words. It is sometimees said
that "talk is chap" and lacking in effi
ciency and so of lessened value in the
power of true helpfulness for any who
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may be in real need of material help,
I Ins idea is entirely wrong. Our words,
both written and spoken are of great
worth as expressions of the heart's sin
cerity and kind intentions. It is true
that words call for no outlay of money.
One has only to draw on the Bank of
Good Will, which never fails to honor
any draft drawn on it and such drafts
will be accepted at their full value, and
sometimes at a big premium wherever
offered.
Speech, no less than deeds, may: be
the medium of helpfulness. What we
say and the intent and manner of saying
it may have a far reaching influence in
the life of the casua auditor at well
as the constant associate. The first con
dition to be lequired is strictly truth
fulness. The truth should be . always
spoken, emphasized by frank sincerity
and earnest enthusiasm ; to the suffer
ing and sorrowing we may speak word
of comfort and sympathy ; to the dis
heartened and despondent we may speak j
words of hope and encouragement ; to
the mistaken and erring we may speak
words of advice and gentle admonition;
and to all whom we meet in our daily
life we may manifest, by word and
deed, an active helpful interest in their
welfare and comfort, as seasonable op
portunities may present themselves to
us.
We should not be chary of kind words,
but speak them ungrudgingly and with
out stint. Some heart may be hunger
ing for just a word of kindness to take
away that dreadful feeling of isolation
and loneliness that sometimes come with
an intensity that has power to depress
the stoutest heart at a timeof great
discouragement and deep sorrow, and
they may need just a word spoken, kind
ly and sympathetically, to restore such
a . one to his rightful and happier state
of mind.
"They might not need me
Yet they might.
I'll let my heart be
Just in sight
A smile so small
x As mine might be
Precisely their
Necessity."
We may also act kindly and thereby
rive kind act. Service and kindness go
hand in hand and are inseparable. And
there are so many ways in which kind
ness may be shown when the will to
ut is present and the desire of the heart
is right. In the little matters of cour
tesy, always so pleasing and accept
able, there ar? ever occurring many op
portunities of expressing a kind thought
by some little act of service that may
go a long way toward making the day
a little brighter, some burden a little
lighter for those with whom one may
come in frequent contact in tho business
and social routine of daily life. And.
The Originators of the Savings Club System in High Point
there are others, those unfortunate ones,
who are laid aside, shut out from the
world of action, confined, it may be all,
or the greater part of their time to the
dull monotony of their rooms, into
whose darkened lives a flood of sun
shine might come from just a cheery
visit or some little token of remem
brance from a thoughtful and interest
ed friend. Only a little thought ad
a real desire to extend a helping hand
is needed to point he way; and some
life will be made the happier, and some
heart will be made the happier, and some
world a more beautiful place because
of your kind thought and act.
The true worth of a true friend is be
yond human estimate. The material
and fleeting things of this life, however
important they may be at the time of
their momentary necessity, are too
cheap in their power to bring real and
lasting good to be compared with so
valuable a possession as a friend. This j
world would be a lonely, desolate place
of abode without the love and compan
ionship of a friend. A great number of
friends are not necessary to the greater
and higher joys and comforts or hie
but to be forced to plod life's troublous
way alone and friendless would be a
sad experience for anyone. We may be
able to live in comfort and happiness
want many cf the material things that
contribute only to temporary physical
pleasures but to live without a friend
who would voluntarily venture the trial.
There is a cause for every effect just
as there is an effect for every cause.
We cannot separate one from the other
without destroying both. A true friend
is a helpful friend and one of life's
greatest assets. And no matter what
may be our condition in life, most of
us are keenly sensitive to the spirit
of kindness and gratefully bless the
hand that reaches out to us its helpful
aid in time of need.
Unkindness may be shown by a mere
absence of kindness and is not always
expressed by deliberative acts of un
friendliness. It may come only from
a lack of personal interest or. friendly
concern in another's welfare and com
fort. Some people seem so absorbed in
their own immediate affairs and pleas
ures, so eager to grasp those things
they have made the inseparable sources
of their own pleasures and happiness,
they have no time to give to others
except as they may be able to use them
to the advancement of their own pleas
ures and the enlargement of their pleas
ures and happiness. And thus a feeling
of unkind and selfish neglect is engen
dered in some one's mind, the seed of
bitterness is planted in some one's heart,
which like the scarcely perceptible
breeze that sometimes precedes the de
structive storm, may, in the growing
strength of- their repetition and. fre
com
quency of .disapointments, be their own
unwelcomed rewards of the same in
difference and careless concern, when
a little thoughtful attention, a cheery
greeting, a cordial graps of the hand, a
kind word, small things, within them
selves, but would have been gladly at ,
cepted and returned in heart-warmed re
sponse. Every person makes of himself :i pat
tern for others to live by, and this pat
tern should be carefully and correctly
made and adjusted that it mislead no
one. But some people, when they meet
the image of their own likeness to the
lives of some others, think they have
come in contact with the devil and
maybe they have.
What we sew that also shall we reap.
There are many people whose reasoning
along this line seems somewhat at
fault, judging them by their actions and
their consequent influence over other e.
If, by th?ir manners, they . spread an
atmosphere f careless indifference or
selfish unconcern about them, they
should not expect to command or win
the thoughtful consideration of others.
They have created in them the same
feeling of unconcern toward themselves
uid its unwelcomed reflection now must
rest upon them. In the changes of time
and time never fails to bring changes
to us all many needs arise needs that
only real friends can supply, and then
we shall realize the meaning and worth
of a friend.
Personal kindness is essentially neces
sary to the "good order and comfort
of society" ai d is a vital factor in the
formation of friendship, the retention of
friends and the proper maintenance of
the social life of humanity.
Snubbishness is one of the worst forms
of unkindness and can have no valid
excuse with the well-bred and lofty
minded. In the mistaken idea lo show
super ioritv of class and higher refine
ments, instead a cheapness of charac
ter and low ideals and a perverted sense
of true worth is often displayed a
carelessness of good manners and an
absence of the spirit of gentleness is
revealed. Wuh averted look and a re-
pellant demeanor they pass by, ignoring
the friendly recognition of the more
friendly disposed.
111 manners is another very bad form
of unkindness and should be shunned
bv every person as a most serious of
fense against good breeding, intellectual
refinement and Christian culture. They
are always unpleasant, promote unkind
feelings and will mar an otherwise
most beautiful character. Unmanner-
edly people never make congenial as
socrates and their friendship is unde
sirable and disappointing to any who
may have been attracted to or won by
some former . spasmodic of kindness or
chance word spoken in some better and ,
friendlier mood. Some people geem to
have a complex nature, oscillating be '
tween the most courtly manners, and
the rudeness of a boar. They can dis
play the mr-st thoughtful considera
tion at one time and then change to
the most violent exhibition of ignor
ance of the common amenities of ordi- .
nary courtesy in their attitude to
others about them.
Any kindness which such people may
attempt to suow will often be accepted
at a discount in the remembrance of a
former unkind act or word and thus fall
short of the possible good that might
have been accomplished. Thus the
wholesome influence and its helpful -character
is lost upon some one who
could not forget the impressions of a
selfish or an overbearing disposition so
plainly revealed at another time.
Most of us are inclined to judge the
world by the people we know and the t
treatment we receive from them. If
those whom we have learned to know,
possibly to love and trust, are found
faithful and true, then we are apt to
think all people are good, the world
grows beautiful, life takes on a roseate
hue, and the future becomes pregnant
with promise.
And children to a much greater extent
than older people are intensely receptive
of the influence of kindness over their
young minds, and quickly respond to the
kindly attetnions and thoughtful con
siderations accorded them of their rights
by their older friends. They are quick
er to judge and form opinions of the
merit and intent of an act than they
are sometimes given credit for by their
older friends who may have forgotten
the experiences of their childhood days.
These early impressions stamped upon
their imamture, yet wonderfully reten
tive minds and often with extraordi
nary correctness, are hard to erase in
after years. In fact these early impres
sions, "made upon a sensitive and ob- .
servant youth'' of the disposition and
character of older people, formed in the
early years of life, may never be erased
from their memory but renuin with '
them to rankle at some unforgotten act
of unkmdnes3, or warm at the thought
of a remembered kindness shown them
at some former period of life. It ia
much easier tr form opinions a.d opin
ions are sometimes formed quickly
than it is tc change them when once,
they have become firmly established in
the mind, or we have become impressed
with their reality.
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