Vicksburg weekly herald. (Vicksburg, Miss.) 1868-1883, 1870-02-19

Porter, Amos TappaH.
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Very respectfully, yours,
w. w. LORD.
apemmam9 ths Trath In GsSvs.
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MI RRREhRRH: SAlutation and
peacein the name Of our Lord Jesus
Christ
Entering upon new, and, in the
aasa at some amongst you, renewed
relations which involve q mutual
duty and imply q mutual love, It
strikes me az a happy coincidence
That The epistle for the day should
breathe 50 full and free q breath Of
that inspiring spirit OF ell Christian
duties and ailecttons-charitY.
T0express In few words the spirit
Of the epistle, have chosen for my
fextthat significant phrase In which
The great Expounder OF Christianity
makes the truth itself depend, for
IT, power and effectiveness upon
love- speaking The truth in love-"
some Of you win perhaps remem.
hne that this was the motto which
hands that are now dust inscribed
upon The Banuer OF the Church In
Mississippi. To make IL thus the
perpetual text of our theology and
test Of our Christianity, was the
suggestion OF one Of your pastors
who, IN the shadow Of yOnder
church, sleeps where he fell In the
cause Of humanity, after true and
loving service in the cause of Chris
tiaulty. AsI was his successor IL
that church, dear TO memory, thrice
and ever dear 70 me by associations
that ere 3 part OF my life, so by this
text / seem again 20 have become,
in spirit, his successor.
The words themselves, as inter-
Dresing the method and motive Of
Christian teaching. are remark
able: but a. related TO the rest Of
the passage, they are still more
deeply significant. The act or habit
OF speaking the truth IN love is said
60 have tho effect Of causing us, and
by inference, those who hear US, "tO
grow np into Him, IN all things,
which = the head, even Christ"
There Il nothing mystical, or even
mysletioua, IN this ehuneiatiOn.-
Love, 10 The moral world, Is what
the principle Of affinity Is in the
cOFpuscular, and gravity In the cor
pOroal world. Without love, the
former would be just snch o chaos
as the latter would DO II deprived
Of all attracting and directing for
oes. That love gives power to
trufh-that L determines cur rela-
lions % Il and gives us knowl-
edge and insight, with capacity
both Of feeling and expressing
It. ID not less certain.
Il win noG Be disputed that we
comprehend those persons whom
welOve, and those objects and insti-
buttons 70 which, though by mere
accidental association, We are at
tachcd, better than those TO whom
we are hostile. DftO which we arc
indifferent aud generally, the sub
iecls to which re bring inclination
and affection. hetter than those Il
which we bring reluctance and dis
taste.
Tho explanation of this is me-
dimculL Love, though not itsell
: faculty Of intelligence, slim.
ulaics and sharpens the power
Of observation and reflection, while
indifference, dislike aud especially
hatred and Ell malignant passion
confuse and wcaken our percep
lions, even whcre they do not dc.
pEaro aud dIaiort our Judgements
Love. BY winch ! mean, not tht
passion but the sentiment Is indeed
tho only feeling pure enough Il
minele with he light Of reason
without elollding or Obscuring II,
OF, at least disturbing its processes
with Something Of the dark, blind
and lurbid elements which the
fseEiHes derive from the senses
On which III laet they depend, not
simply like the reason aud discur-
siVe menlliua, for their develop
meHe but f0f their very existence,
The lows @ which the text refers,
Y hardly need as, Is the humane
and religious sentiment which in
it. human faslIons Is Kindness, be.
nevolence eFmpathy, and In Its re.
l|aions aiElni christian charity
divine e1m iacency which men
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God. In the
lEnIhM Aie ans4iion hatred Is IN.
natural ali8idal. and all in.
AaMan5 bottom, imnieIy,
4GletA ~ n particular, is
The very 0f that kingdom Of
lha annl iects ore the OBJ.
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Divine HoaetHt who Is oul
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