Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-07-07
GLOVE We ONE ANOTHRR."

Himself Love, Glove one another; as I
have loved you, love We one another"
He was about to leave His disciples.
With the foreknowledge of His impend-
ing suffering by cruciixion, His heart
was yearningg over those from whom He
was soon to be separated, and as this
last charge, the voice, which must have
held more affection and tenderness chan
any other voice, said: ''Little children,
love one another; by this shall all men
know that We are My disciples, if We
have love one to another"
He had given them commands to
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 Glove one to another"
"As I have loved you" What did
that 'sas'' 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
the 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 a 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 tenderly 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,w 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 a blaze of light and heat
that should kill the smoke.
"Little children" the tender words
are yet echoing, although, alas, so many
of u ears are deaf, Glove one anoth-
er." Love one another with a 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,
60 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, a not see just as we see, can not
feel rs we feel, it is no reason why we
should harden Dur hearts against them.
If they are wrong, they may learn bet
Ter; II 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 Glove 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 others-as
they must do with us-that of which we
disapprove; 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 n nearest and dearest, fail
to see, to ''hold fast to, and encourage
the highest life of which those we love
are capable, we are robbing, not only
those others, but ourselves, Of advance.
ment towards a more perfect rounding
OF character and life.
cit is u privilege to aspire to the
love of God; but, little children. il is
your duty to love n another. Ye are
all alike weak, sinful, sorrowino. q
pity, one another, my children! PITY. /
lmplore you, each others weakness
pity each other sorrow, but, most of ali
pity each others sin. For. could ve Int