Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-06-28
International Sunday.School Lessons,
GLOVE ONE ANOTHER. ("
THIRD QUARTER.

"Little children" said One who wa
Himself Love, Glove one another; as
have loved you, love We one another"
He was about to leave His disciples
With the foreknowledge of His impend
ing suffering by crucifixion, His hear
was yearning over those from whom HI
was soon to be separated, and as thi.
last charge, the voice, which must have
held more affection and tenderness thar
any other voice, said: Little children,
love one another; by this. shall all mer
know that We are My disciples. if "
! have love one to another"
He had given them commands tC
preach the truth; to baptize He had
instituted the Holy Supper, had taught
the doctrine of and insisted on
the adherence to the Divine Truth; but
His final test of discipleship was the
having ''love one to another"
Gas l have loved YOU" What did
that ''as'' hold? How had He loved
them? He had gone to them when
they were at work; He had been with
them when they suffered; He had up
held them when they were weak; He
had waited on them; given them in
their need; healed the sick; cured the
lame, made the blind to see; bound up
the bruises of the wounded; comfOrted
tie afflicted; from no forms of sin and
suffering had He ever turned away
thus had He loved them.
His first impulse, when He saw one
commit q sin, was, not to rebuke or to
condemn, but of great overwhelming
compassion and mercy. Then, from
the depths of His love and pity, He
went down to the loved one where he
stood, took him tendcrly by the hand,
and led him to a higher plane, away
from the evil toward the good; and He
went beside him all the way. The
broken reeds He tried to straighten, to
strengthen, to establish and encourage
them to grow again in forms of use and
beauty. The flax, of which He saw
the smoke, was not condemned because
of the smoke, but He said: "Lo, there is
fire: there is life in the coals;' and He
straightway went to work to fan the
embers into blaze of light and heat
that should kill the smoke.
Little children" the tender words
are yet echOing, although, alas, so many
of our ears are deaf, Glove one anoth-
err" Love one another with love that
is strong enough to endure, deep
enough to forgive. Have compassion
on each others weakness; have pity on
each others blindness; have sympathy
for each others sorrow. Let not
hearts that we might feed, go hungry;
let not lives that we might help to fill,
go empty. Pity, love, strengthen, with
patient tenderness, others, even as we
need the pitiful. tender, charitable,
strengthening love ourselves.
Because others can not do just as we
do, can not see just as we see, can not
feel as we feel, it is no reason why we
should harden our hearts against them.
If they are wrong, they may learn bet
ter; If we are wrong we may learn to
become aware of it; but, right or
wrong, we are not here to Judge each
other, but to ''lOve one another" to
minister to one another; if we can aid |
each other to see the faults we possess
in love-we should do so, but never in |
any other spirit.
In every human being is the germ of |
Divine Life. Let us seek for that germ,
believe in it; cling to it; let us love each
other, not SO much for what we are, as
for what we are capable of becoming;
bearing with patience in otbers-as
they must do with us-that of which we
thus helping to make more
possible the realization of an ideal of
good which the Divine Love has placed
in every heart.
Our hearts should ever be open to
each others word; love and sympathy
should always be in them ready for ac-
ceptance. If we, as we too often do,
even with one nearest and dearest, fail
10 see, to ''hOld FAST to, and encourage
he highest life of which those we love
ire capable, we are robbing, not only
hose others, but ourselves. Of advance
ment towards more perfect rounding
IF character and life.
ut is our privilege to aspire to the
owe of God: but. little children, it is
Iour duty to love one another. Ye are
III alike weak, sinful, sorrowing. OIL
,ity one a4other, my children! Pity,
mplore you. each others weakness,
,ity each others sorrow, but, laost of all
,ity each others sin. For, could We but
zee Alright, the sin, the sorrow and the
weakness are but one.
If we have received stone when we
hould have received bread, let us for
,et it, forgive it. and be sure that our
'wn hands are filed with bread. Let
lot our speech, ray, nor our silence,
ear aught but the "bread of life"
Words, looks, actions, should all be so {
lied with our "love one to another"
hat they can not fail to bear its mes
ages. We know not in what ground
eed may fall, nor when renewed fount-
ins of life spring forth. We know not
THAT barren spot may become fruitful, .
or what dark place shall be filed with i
ght because of the fulfilling of this
law Of life." We have been told that