The Advocate and news., 1899-02-15

conquer. 1t is stronger than death and
more lasting than time.
IF speak with the tongues Of men
and of angels but have not love, l am be-
come sounding brass or a changing GYM
bal. And II have the gift Of prophecy
and know all mysteries and all knOwl-
edge; II have all faith, so as to remove
mountains, but have not love, am moth
ing. And II l bestOw all my goods to
feed the poor and II give my body to be
burned, but have not love 1t prohteth me
nothing. Love suffereth long and is
kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not
itself, is not puffed up doth not behave
itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is
not provoked, taketh not account Of evil,
rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but re-
jolceth with the truth; beareth all things,
believeth all things, hOpeth all things,
endureth all things Love never faileth;
but whether there be prophecies they
shall be done away;whether there be
tongues they shall cease; whether there
be knowledge 1t shall be done away"H
II is not in the intellect Of man but in
his soul that you will find something that
SudluCAOA dlOhS 10 VbSlAells
It will last
When the stars are old,
When the sun grows cold
And the leaves OF the judgment book
unfold.
God is love-" That sentence Is one OF
the shortest you will find In all our liter
ature, but there is no other that means
so much or which we fall so short OF
comprehending. Harmony Is the law Of
His being who is the soul Of the universe
1t is also the law OF our being because
we are the children Of the Highest. To
the degree that we attain 1t are our lives
successful. TO the degree that we fall
short of 1t life Is dlscord, defeat and fail
ure.
Ruskin says: I'VE may make all our
lives music il we will but touch the
chords rightly and in tune" We do
strike false notes daily and hourly. Our
health does not endure; our happiness
does not endure; our republic does not
endure, be cause of the discords we make
in our ignorance and our blindness. We
know that the sweetest joy comes from
self-sacrifice; that as we follow in the
steps OF the patient, plying Christ we
learn the truths Of the supernal realm
but hate and envy and all uncharltable-
ness have dominated our race and our
own hearts too long for us to learn in one
lesson, or in one lifetime the secret Of
his teachings or the power Of his love.
In studying socialism have found, as
the Encyclopaedia Britannica asserts,
that its ethics, "are the same as the eth
les of Christianity" For me politics
and religion can nevermore be divorced.
The evil Of our proht-seeking civilization
is destroying 1t. TO help my brother on
the spiritual plane one day in seven and
rob him on the material the other six Is
to live lie, We have got to crusify sell
fishness in the flesh or our civilization
will perish as we'll as our republic. While
self-seel1ing has always seemed to be the
law Of nature on the physical plane,
even there she has been for untold ages
teaching the sublime doctrine Of self
sacrifice which shines forth as the law
of the spirit on the higher reaches Of be-
ing. From the instant that mothers be-
gin to disregard the cravings of their own
appetites to feed their young, Altruism
has been the greatest factor in the evolu-
tiOn of life on our planet. Day by day
we see more and more clearly that sell
fishness defeats itself and destroys the
soul that would make its own pleasure
and qualification the supreme object OF
existence
The sense Of civic duty must come to
replace the instinct Of self-preservation
which has hitherto lashed us to painful
effort. said civic duty for lack Of a
better term but meant the spirit OF love
for our fellows, the feeling of harmony
with all that is. Until we will work just
as earnestly for the race as we now do
for ourselves, we shall remain slaves to
our appetites and our fears and be driven
forth to uncongenial tasks The lower
motive will always be present until the
higher replaces 1t. We have got to learn
70 raise wheat and corn and beef and
pork because others want to eat, and not
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