The Power of Kindness. —Many years since there lived in one of the central counties of Nuw Jersey a poor mechanic, eminent for his pions zeal and consistency, He was very much tried by the conduct of an ungodly neighbour who was in the habit of cutting liis wood for the next week on the Lord's Day, and the sound ol whose axe continually disturbed the old Christian's meditations. Father 11., os he was called, often remonstrated earnestly and kindly with his neighbour, but without any eiVcct. At length he adopted n different course. One Saturday afternoon his neighbour found the old man very busy at his wooJpile, nnd inquired in astonishment what he was doing. | 'Why,' replied Father H., 'you will peisist in cutting your wood on God's holy day, and it grieves 1110 so much that I mean to do it for you this afternoon, so that you will have no occasion to do it to-morrow.' The man was at once overcome and exclaimed,« No, you shall not, I will do it myself. Nor will you ever, after this, have reason lo compla : n of me for chopping wood on the Sabbath,' And he was as good as his word. The old man has long since gone to his reward, but this incident lives after him to enforce the divine diiection, 'He not overcome of evil, bnt overcome evil with good.'—American Paper.
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Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 2, Issue 52, 19 December 1850, Page 4
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234Untitled Maori Messenger : Te Karere Maori, Volume 2, Issue 52, 19 December 1850, Page 4
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