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SKETCHES. 330
again been given to us — we shall now be able to tend, to
love, and to make thee happy!”
And in the third returned one, mark the repose, the hope,
the consciousness of home, of peace, of sisterly love, this
love so tender, so pure, so rich, so powerful to create happi-
ness. She wants words, but the tear that glides from her
eye is one of joy, and speaks volumes. There is a rosy hue
on her: cheek; there is happiness in her heart ; she presses
her sisters’ hands and feels that she can be happy yet.
And why should she not again be happy? The home
which shall again hold her, the port in which she has cast
anchor, is that of kindness and peace. Kindness led by
wisdom has a great, a wondrous power, and few are the
pains which it cannot assuage, few the afflictions the mem-
ory of which it cannot gradually efface.
The effect of its power seems natural when one sees and
marks how this power is wielded. Life is an aggregate of
moments (any body less clever than I am, may make this
wise observation) ; kindness seeks to seize these moments in
order to lay down in each of them a seed of coinfort for
the sufferer.
Now it is called rest, anon cheerfulness, sensation of
comfort fur body and soul — aye, even flattery; kindness
can flatter, but only the unhappy. one. It acts like the sun
in spring ; melts slowly away winter’s snow and ice, and
sheds warmth everywhere; and then earth begins to get
green, and then come the flowers — the wish to live.
In this world, so full of suffering and of enjoyment,
of splendor and misery, of greatness and littleness, of
strength and weakness, of life and death, above all others,
happy is he in whose soul lies active kindness, holiness,
and peace. - He alone stands in this restless world as if it
were a paradise, whose sanctuary no tempests can reach.
He alone goes on his way in joy and affliction, in wealth
and in poverty, in life and in death, calmly and unwaver-
ingly ; suffers and enjoys alike silently, loves, forgives, does
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