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+ Thomas Dixotl. -. preached insi's TIT
( last II the summer s.rit> ~ Ntri1l"';~ "i
TIE .'T1ubleIu> II Mnurv. II" NH r.
turn 10 New York next sunday and
take up the work again ~ Association
hall The text today was. John xiii. ~
a rew commandment I ave un'a YOU.
tina, We loYe one another. even a. have
loved YOU
There is ogie sense in which we are too
familiar with tue Bible. We ara hard
sne,l tv il. In my college days We
were forced "a attend preaching services
on Sunday. aud consequently upon my
mind preaching made not the slightest
impression The sound was too familiar
--unpleasa fly familiar. knew the
theme in GAO sense too well-in "a real
sense. not g.. all.
tn BlnLE TOO FAMILIAR.
A Boston woman lay dying in hos
pitai. and the nurse was reading to her
from the New Testament. She read the
sermon ou the mount To her surprise
the woiu.tA looked M and asked her
who wrote tilIts book. That is a
wonderful took, Ii will make its
author famous" We need 10 hear the
word of God. it seems to me, some
times as This poor woman heard il for
the first time. We need TO take il lit
orally, to hear il thus and to believe that
its message is a real one To us.
The two great commandments that
sum up the duties of life, love to God
and love to man-luve to God through
love to man-how familiar we are with
them. and yet how little we really know
of them. And yet it is in the fulhllment
of this simple law of Christianity that
we shall find the solution to the great
financial and social problem that presses
now upon us for solution.
: The literal fulfillment of this, the great
est commandment, is the pressing duty
of today. Obedience to it means the
solution Of the problem of the ages. of
the salvation of the race, because:
First-Love is the fulfillment of the
law. 1t fulfills the negations of the law.
Love worketh no i'll to its neighbor:
therefore no man who loves his fellow
man can enter upon any business that
can result to the injury of his neighbor.
JUSTICE Is LOVE.
At the touch of the fulfillment of this
law every gambling business, every sa-
loon and dive and brothel and question
able resort must perish.
Love cannot be unjust.
The master who loves his servant gets
from him the very highest service. The
general who commands the love of his
soldiers gets the very highest order of
soldier. The master who wins the love
of his servant is just to him. The gen.
eral who wins the love of his soldier is a
just general.
Love seeks not simply its own, but the
good of another.
He who seeks the good of another cam
not destroy another in the process of at
tanning his own good. Love cannot take
advantage of misfortune. At the breath
of love in the business world the bar
gain counter must disappear, and our
taking advantage of our neighbor's neces-
sites to drive u hard bargain must be
reieSated to the age of barbaric compe-
tition. Every bargain counter is a proc
that somebody has failed; that
who dreamed fair dreams of prosperity
and of success had broken heart and
broken life
Love is the fulfllment of the positive
as well as the negative ele- |
nents of law. 1t makes us to study |
and to know each other. Ignorance and |
Indifference are impossible if our hearts |
ire engaged We do not know each |
other. If we really loved our fellow
nan, we would make it our business to
know him. 1t is difficult for US to sac
'ifice for those we do not know.
LOVE AND TREASURE.
A preacher struggled to raise a collec-
ion for the heather during the war in
lis church. There was little or no re-
ponse. While in the pulpit he received
telegram from the seat of war an
louncing terrible battle. giving fear
ul list of the dead and wounded. call
ng immediately for supplies, for nurses,
or lint, for food, for bandages and ply
lc1ans and for money to supply all
hese needs. They passed around the
box, and it came back load
d-plled with money and with Jewels.
they took their rings from their fingers.
Women took their earrings from their
ars. They piled them in the basket.
md many of them were wet with tears.
Love fulfills the positive commands of
ne law. Ii we love, we will sacrifice.
love Will send US out after the people
Who need us. 1t will make principle.
lot policy, the handspring of life. Love
the heart of man for his fellow must
ring obedient action in thousand HUI
nan relations where now there is eter- [
al conflict and friction. If we love we ,
re at one In wills. Christ said, eff We I
ove me, keep my commandments. 4
Second-LOve not only fulfills the law. 4;
ut from the mountain peak of fulfilled &
aw opens the universe in which to ex-
ana and to grow. Love thy neighbor j
myself Higher love than this cannot
e required of man. Jesus said, Love |
ne another, even as have loved Won" |
or this climax we strive. The highest
ONT In the development of love is this ,
wine climax. His love was matcbless
ecause it was the love of perfect human.
y. Jesus greatest discovery was him.
ef. The most marvellous revelation
g made to the world was of his
eep knowledge of the Father found
'lthln his own great soul. But {
buried self. He saved Others {
himself he could not save. He threw
Is life away in the briefest possible min c
try. He was tender of the smallest t
eeds OF those who were about him. He c
al compassion upon the multitude lest 4
lev faint by the wayside He fed them
81 they should be overborne with weari- '
7ss as they returned to the city. When t
s disciples were wearied with work
SAID to them, Come We apart and rest
While. And in his last hour of beln- h
ssness and of excruciating pain and Of
'ul darkness on the cross his f;no1
ionght was not of himself. but of the o
PROVING mother who stood by the '
oss. Her be commended to the loved
sciple.
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