The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1901-03-26

the bud, faith the flower. 1t is tru
faith cannot always be the outgroWtl
of hope, for our daily experiences testi
fy to the fact that, concerning many
things, we can only hope for a fayora'
BILE outcome In the spiritual realm
faith is, however, always possible.
Pardon few words from one of my
former addresses.
Dryden says: "God thus asserted
Man is to believe beyond what sense
and reason can conceive"
And Tennyson sings:
Faith has center everywhere, nor
cares to fix itself in form"
Faith is an unseen God; faith in an
underlined country elevates the believer
above earthly environments, detaches
him from the limitations of sense and
reason, and equips him with an armor
that the cynic's stab, the critics sting
or the enemy's thrust cannot pene-
] trate.
But I'm not to talk of the second
member of the trio, but of the third.
What is Love?
Love is the stimulus Of hope, the sus-
| tainer of faith.
Dear friends, do we possess this slim
illus, this sustainer? Dove love in its
truest and deepest sense?
Southey says:
'Love is indestructible;
It's holy flame forever burneth;
From heaven it came, to heaven return
| eth
| And Wordsworth says:
| "Mightier far than strength of nerve or
sinew, or the sway
OF magic, potent over sun and star,
Is love-
And Emerson wisely remarks:
1.-THE reason why all men honor love
is because it looks up and not down;
aspires and not despars."
And Henry Van Dyke says:
What means the voice of life? She an
swered, Love.
For love is life and they who do not love
Are not alive. But every soul that
loves
Lives in the heart of God, and hears
Him speak,"
Is our love genuine? Do we look up,
not down? Do we aspire? Do we live
in the heart Of God? Can we hear Him
speak?
But I want to talk first of harmful
love-a love that does not aspire.
mean the absorption of thought in plT--
ming for a good time. Undue love, or
longing for a continuous good time is
an epidemic as prevalent as the grip.
The treatment for the grip is home and
the doctor. The treatment for a good
time is the church and the minister.
BY a good time I do not mean when
fair youth with purity dethroned, glad
ly follows the suggestions and obeys
the mandates of unbridled passion.
do not refer to lesser immortality
where in an indoors or ut-of- doors
club whiskey is so often the lubrications
of the gossip and stimulates the brain
to invent or repeat vulgar joke or
when it unsteadies the aim. affects Wis
ion and prevents correct calculation of
distance
I have not in mind the midnight hour, |
when in the social club, the saloon or
the cafe, old age unnaturally frater-
nzes with youth, creates mirth and |
affords delight by the recitation of the
"reminiscences of a disgusting past.
What mean by love of a good time, |
a harmful love, is when one is drifting |
On the sea of life without compass, rud-
der or pilot.
(My friend, are you slowly, impercen7
tibly unconsciously drifting?)
When the fireside has lost it's fascina-
lion and the appetite for pleasure has
become diseased and requires to satisfy I
It a diet that undermines, health and
eliminates from thought obligations to
God and humanity: when the spirit of
qualification rather than self sacri-
ice dominates and ignores parental adj
vice or friendly admonition.
The demon of a good time creates
1ippancy and removes soberness and
1t checks religious en-
husiasm and destroys faith hope and
owe. 1t engenders selfishness, creates
brutality, dominates duty, def1es law
md order, and ignores home and God.
The prevalence of harmful love is why
he church does not reach more young
nen and women, too
The last Sunday evening in February
endeavored to particuarize rather
han generalize along the line of harm
I'll love. I haven't time this morning
o do this to any considerable extent.
ls I have been misquoted in recent |
ditorial in one Of our papers, I will re-
eat what said in reference to clubs
The Preside does not attract as it did
I other days. The fascination Of the !
hub increasingly draws men from home | '
nd family, from the church of our
ord Jesus Christ.
I would not assert that an occasional
'equenter of the club is a sinner or that
is influence is injurious to the church.
At least one club in this city Is con-
dered an ideal one, but few are eligible c
membership In 1T. I recognize the
,cial and intellectual delights inciden- &
II to club life. If not abused, the club t
light to elevate and not degrade.
But If a social club opens it's doors F
1 the Sabbath and dispenses whiskey I
Y regular barkeeper / am compelled b
consider such club an enemy to the S
lurch and the home, and that active t
In its life tends to under v
inc the higher aspirations and lessen b
ligious activities. "
A serious, harmful and prevalent love r.
love of the pocketbook Ministers W
I'd laymen ought to be baptized Of the
oily Ghost to be effective; the flash a
sht of Gods Holy Spirit ought to be Ii
en- in the light of the eye. the look in
e face-the ring of the voice and the A
In, tho vpoodS-tban mr. churches |