Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1897-12-03
LOVE.
(RY. @. b. Nc: NTosH.)

AS he he'd neser died"
When the springtime of life is no
more and the chilly winter of our de-
clining years, so seemingly unending
to us in youth, go heetrng IN age, Is
upon us, when behind the mountain
tops the sun of life is setting and we
are conscious that no earthly power
can stop It's going down, when in the
days Of oil age we find hours for re-
Election, and look back across the
track which our lives have made
Though the passing years, there will
be one supreme inevitable question,
by which we can unerTingly judge the
success or the failure which our exist
ence has proveu, that one thing is
Love, simply love. Henry Drum
mons has termed it ~The greatest
thing In the world" and so it is. Not
the sc atimental side of love, but that
love which is greater even THAI the
Gum total Of sentiment, Of passion, of
patience, kindness, friendship, gener-
osity and courtesy; that love which
in itself is Christianity Of the purest
kind.
10 the days of youth when the world
seems full and inviting; when we are
imbued with the idea that small un-
kindnest here and a carelessness of
others there will have no effect upon
the final percentage Of our lives, 30
long as we gam the temporary advan-
tage which we seek, love in it's true
SIS icance is not a factor i'll our
da ly walks, we are blind to it's beauty,
deaf to its speech, mute to its en-
treaties, thoughtless to the all absorb
ing effect that it has upon our char
acters and upon our lives here and in
the eternity beyond.
When youth has passed, and dur
ing the. years of our progression
toward the score years and 10; when
bu ness cares are upon us; when
lie is full Of the affairs which all men
encounter, to be met and struggled
with, when we are seeking to estab-
ish for ourselves something we may
leave behind, landmark Of our use.
fitness on earth, we overlook, forget,
cast asiGe that one indispensable
quality, which would do more to make
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est scheme which the ingenuity of
man could conceive or the persever-
ence Of mortal push on to success,
and that quality is what? Love.
When middle age has passed
and we approach the hour Of our ap-
pointed time; when the impress of
the former years of living is stamped
forever upon our characters, and has
left us in that condition in which we
shall go down to the grave; when the
actions Of our past lives are marshall
ed before us in review aud with cfiti-
cal eye we seek out those which have
uplifted and ennobled us and have
been to the betterment of humanity,
then indeed do we realize that all
acts pale beside our acts Of love, that
we derive happiness and comfort
from noue Of them except those
which have been from the heart,
prompted by and imbued with that
one thing, love.
What is love? Can any man an
swerH No, love lpasseth all under
standing, it cannot be comprehended;
it is boundless as the universe, more
wonderful than the infinite. It Is not
a trait Of character, 1t is not a studied
habit, is is not even a condition, be-
yond and above oil these it shines,
pure and iridescent is the stars Of
God's heavens, Understandable in its
beauty, incomprehe nsible by any
mortal in its purity.
There was One who understood it
in it's entirety and the best that we Of
earth can do is to use our utmost OF
forts 10 follow in His footsteps.
Love is life, anything short OF love