The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1867-03-01
HENRY WARp BEEoHRR oh LoTE.
following IS from recent sermon

The following Is from recent sermon
by the pastor of Plymouth church:
On earth there is nothing more beau
tiful than the first breaking of the ground
Of young. strong. new. pure love. No
flower that ever blossomed, however fair;
no fragrance that any flower ever emitted.
however sweet; no bravery of the sky;
no Witchery of art; nothing that man
ever invented or imagined, is TO be conn
pared with the hours of dawniue love in
the young soul And it is a sbsrss tbsl
men should be taught to be ashamed of
that which Is the prophecy OF their hiph-
est being and glory. Alas, that il should
ever perish in the using Alas. that
men should not know that to endure i
must rise higher aud higher. since it is
only by growing into its full and later
disclosures that it may be saved from
quick mortality. 1t must grow or die:
for that which suffices for beginning is
not enough for all, aud for ali time.
Love, therefore, should be a SCHOOL,
master, carrying its pupils up from room
to room, through the whole university
of the mind. As the lower begins FIRST.
at ends first. The higher, beginning la
test lasts the longest.
And, hence, true affection is strongest
in The later periods of being. Perhaps
it is less witching, perhaps it is less at
tractive in novelty, perhaps & is less
than young love; hut the
popular impression that we love strong
est when We love earliest is not found in
truth or Analogy. No one knows tbs
whole lore of love, that does not know
how TO love with the reason, the .imagiu-
alton, and all the moral sentiments. 1t is
the most interior school that the soul can
know. Men may know how to deal with
nd solve problems; but that is the
rsrest, the inneFmost, the deepest knowl-
edge that comes with loving by all the
parts and faculties of the soul.
They only can love greatly or fruitful
ly who are good, since the line, the Li-
rection, is from the flesh toward the spir-
it. 1t is from the low toward the high.
It is from the substantial toward the in-
visible. And none can truly love except
those whose life is the uafolding of their
whole nature on the plan of Christianity,
How pitiful it is to see men build too
1 cannot bear to see the young gathering
together and building their nests as the
birds do. On my lawn see the larks
and other birds building in the grass, and
know that before the young are fledged
the remorseless mower, with revolving
strokes, will sweep the ground. and the
nests will be utterly destroyed, aud. the
young cut and wasted. And do 1 not
see men building their nests just 80 ? Do
not see love beginning to nestle in the
flower? But the flowers them selves are
rooted in the dirt down low. close TO the
FOOT that easily shall crush them.
I mourn when see mother loving
her children for time and for a time
only. I mourn when see two natures
that should be eternally affi4ncel, loving
each other within the horizons of time.
There must be something higher than
the Greetings of this world. No love is
ft to be called BIZ the name of love that
has not in it something of the other
world, and much of immortality. 1t
must rise above an instinct or passion.
1t must have in it faith and hope. It
must be love that is served by the rea-
son, by the Imagination, by all that there
is in the soul.