Kindness, Oil of—See [Lubrication, Effective]; [Sunshine].
Kindness Rewarded—See [Recompense for Kindness].
KINDNESS STIMULATING DEVOTION
In Mrs. Pickett’s memoirs of her husband, General George E. Pickett, of the Confederate Army, she relates this incident:
As my Soldier was riding toward Sailor’s Creek, a woman ran out of a house and handed him something to eat. He carried it in his hand as he rode on. Presently he came upon a soldier lying behind a log, and spoke to him. The man looked up, revealing a boyish face, scarcely more than a child’s—thin and pale.
“What’s the matter?” asked my Soldier.
“I’m starving, General,” the boy replied. “I couldn’t help it. I couldn’t keep up, so I just lay down here to die.”
“Take this,” handing the boy his luncheon; “and when you have eaten it and rested, go on back home. It would only waste another life for you to go on.”
The boy took the food eagerly, but replied: “No, Marse George. If I get strength enough to go at all, I’ll follow you to the last.”
He did, for he was killed a few days later at Sailor’s Creek.