West Virginia daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1894-1902, 1898-10-12
A VERY LARGE CROWD.
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ers; as the possum welcomes the
ripe persimmonS and the old time
darEey welcomes the 'possum, SO
we extend to one and all most
hearty welcome. We do so because
of this glorious cause in which we
are engaged. We trust your delib-
eratiOnS will be as harmonious as
when Uncle 'Rastus held Aunt Di-
nah's hand in his and asked, Who's
sweet and Aunt Dinah dropped
her head on his shoulder and an
swered, 'Bofe of u.s. We meet
you and greet you because we are
kindly affectioned one to another
with brotherly love. Without
this love, even godliness would be-
come sour, morose and unattract-
i've. No other principle does or
can commend the order you repre-
sent as the full exercise of love.
"The natural and proper index of
love is brotherly kindness. The
world reads these living epistles'
made by the exercise of this prin-
ciple more than it reads the written
word. Hard indeed is the heart
that Is unmoved by love and kind
ness. 1t is the means by which the
ways are prepared for the grand,
glorious work we are to do as we
look out on the things of others.
We are taught that in Professor
Drummond's book on the Ascent
OF Man is the Story of Evolution;
we are told it may be headed, The
Struggle for Life but take the
book as whole and it is not tale
of battle. 1t is a story of love. We
have in these careful researches a
wonderful mass of proof marshaled
with great skill to establish the by
pothesis that the law OF love runs
down in the very roots of all life.
Take the tiniest protoplasmic cell,
immerse it in a suitable medium,
and presently it will perform two
great acts-the two which sum up
life, which constitute the eternal
distinction between the living and
the dead-nutrition and repro
duction.
cat one moment, In pursuance
of the struggle for life, it will call
in matter from without and assimi-
late it to itself; at another moment,
in pursuance of the struggle for the
lite of others, it will set portion
of that matter apart, add to it and
finally give it away to form another
lite.
Thus he shows that even at
It's dawn, life isreceiver and giver;
even in protoplasm is seltism and
otherism. And these two tenden-
cies, it is declared are not gratis on
the tree of life, they are its nature,
its essential life. They are not
painted on the canvas, but woven
through 1t. To substantiate these
strong statements our author goes
on to say that every plant in the
world lives for others. 1t sets aside
something, something of worth, Of
care, and by it shows the highest
expression of its nature. We un
derstand the seed to be the 1.-THE of
love, that part of natures rendering
to man. When we live upon ma
lures rendering we are living upon
love; if the struggle for life has
made man, it is the struggle for
love that sustainS him. We are In
formed that nearly all of the beauty
of the world is love beauty; whether
it is the carolIa of the flower, the
plume of the grass, the lamp of the
hrety, the plumage of the bird, or
the lovely face of the noble woman;
that nearly all the music of the
natural world is love music, such as
the song Of the nightingale, or
the serenade Of the lover. That
nearly all the foods of the world are
lovefoods, like the date and rasin,
the grains, the seed and the cereals.
And we are asked to remember that
the family, the crown Of ali higher
lite, is the creation of love and all
that stands for the up lifting is tn.
Gift of love. Also that the diffusions
Of feeling which accompany them
the elevations, the happiness. the
goodness, all prove that this is a
world of love in whice we live,
move and have our being.
"All this is in harmonious rela-
ton to the thought. Humanity
and all that relates to it is set to