San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-09-26

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takes, in order that the divine
qualification of giving may be
afforded another. 1t never takes
in order that it may be increased
or enriched itself. When such
ia thought comes in it is the death
of love. Love dies out of that
heart. Rather it has never enter
ed. Some miserable counterfeit
of itself was there and this touch
stone has discovered the cheat
Thus it is that love worketh nc
i'll to its neighbor. 1t cannot
1t is not built that way. II
must be known by its own land,
marks and earmarks.
If all this is true in any real
sense, then there is a whole lot
of fool stuff written about love,
that is rot. Love never hurt a
thing. From the time that the
gate of Eden opened and Adam
and Eve saw the outside of the
garden, from then until now,
love never harmed anything,
anybody. 1t does not know how.
1t lives to bless, not to curse.
Love universally seeketh not its
own. When you hear to the con-
trary do not believe it. When
you read in the telegraph columns
of the press that such man pro
posed to a girl, and being reject
ed, shot her, and then himself,
because he loved her so much
that life was not worth living
without her, don't believe it.
That man was an insane fool and
shot that girl because he was
afraid some other man would
stand better with her than he did.
No man ever yet shot another
man, woman, child, puppy dog,
or anything else for love. Per-
haps man shoots game for love
of it, that is he loves to eat it,
but that is not the kind of thing
we are now considering. A man
may shoot a dog, a horse, be-
cause it is in pain and can get no
relief and it were more merci-
full thing to kill it than to suffer
it to live on in pain. This also
is another thing. No man ever
yet shot his dog or horse or wife
or child or betrothed because he
loved them, unless there were pc,
culiar conditions existing under
which their death was to them
preferable to life. Women have
been shot by their fathers and
and sons in our own be-
loved land, in the early days, to
save their falling into the hands
of savages, whose cruelties were
more dreadful than death.
This is true, but it does not
negative the statement that we
do not kill that we love because
we love it. We kill it for another
reason. The man who kills him
self, because he is refused by the
girl whom he is said to love, does
not kill himself for love of her.
Not under any circumstances does
he do it. He may kill himself
because he is crazy, or because he
has brOOded over his refusal I'M
til he is a monomaniac, or be-
cause he is too jealous to see her
accept another, or because he
can't bear disappointment, or be-
cause of a score of things, but
never because he loves her whom
he kills himself for. His real
love for her would prevent him
from doing a thing that would
cause her pain or sorrow.
1t is time that there was a
better understanding of this sub
ject all around. Passion pure
and simple, the desire to possess,
is at the bottom of much that is
called love. 1t is a Dissertation
to call it that. Some people
want the earth, and if they can
not get what they want, would
destroy that thing sooner than
see il fall into the hands OF
another. This is devilish. HUI
man passion is not love. Human
desire to possess is not love. De
sire to enjoy is not love. Desire
to give pleasure, help, comfort
regardless of ourselves and only
with reference to the object OF
our helping, this is benevolence
and this is the real foundation O
the love quality in human
breasts.
Mother love is nearer the gen
uine article of love than any
other affection. This has tingC
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