The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-04-15

tenth commencement set III Ills iedIl' He cannot covet his neighbors wife nor, by and by, any thing that is his | neighbor's. Every woman is sacred; the children of every family have their rights; the good of all must be con- served. No man begins by loving a multitude. Every man begins by low l ing one. Love expands from the one to the many. The true man becomes a sort of universal husband and father and friend. he is husband to the widow, a father to the fatherless, a servant to all in need. Love once called forth in thoughtfulness, kindness ana | service easily txtends itself. A few 1 years since a citizen of this city lost an only son. Though the man is known to me only by sight, l remember how my heart went out to him in sympathy | when I read that his son was dead. l But now on Thanksgiving day that man spreads a table for the newsboys 1 of the city, doing for many in making them glad what he cannot do for the one Fatherly love flows out in gener- ous affection. Lawrence Hall and Vanderbilt Hall on the campus of Yale, | built by Mrs Lawrence and MT. Van 1 derbilt in memory of sons who died when students, are witness to parental love which will do for many what 1t can no longer do for one. MT. Andrew D. White in his autobiography, writing ] of a visit to Nice, says: Most inter esting to me of all the persons in Nice
 at that time was young American about fourteen years of age who seemed to me one of the brightest and noblest and most promising youths I had ever seen."
 The boy was Leland Stanford, jr, wi'o soon afterward died, And Leland Stan
 ford, Jr., university is not so much a monument to his memory as to the love of his parents, which spread from
 the love of him, the son, to embrace all
 sons whom they might serve. This is
 the order of love, from one to many.
 There is first the family, then the tribe
 which is the immediate kindred, then
 the race Hebrew Greek, German,
 English, then mankind. It is interest," ing to see how love beginning thus in
 the family has expanded from love of
 the tribe and the race and the country into that philanthropy which bears
 good will to all men and seeks to do
 good to all This is the divine purpose
 in the training of men. Every one
 that loveth is born of God and know
 eth God; for God is love He who be-
 lieves in purity and truth, in goodness
 and grace in the heart of a woman and
 in the soul of a man must, if he be
 true, believe that back of these must
 be truth and goodness, love and grace
 bearing men, believing in men and re-
 deeming men. The vision of that
 which is most worthy of worship in
 men must lead to the belief of that
 which is most worthy of worship in
 Him who has made man. For in the
 last analysis it is not the fine outline
 of perfect features, nor the flush of q
 youthful check, nor the light of a clear and tender eye. but the purity and | truth and tenderness which these ex-
 press which grips the heart and holds
 1t forever true in love. Doubtless the
 flush faded from Rachels cheek and
 her bright eyes grew dim, but some-
 thing in her heart held her memory
 dear In the heart of Jacob even till old
 age and his death in Egypt and to his
 last hour held sacred that lonely spot
 near Bethlehem, where as he said to
 Joseph, her son, there l buried Ra-
 chel.' Love is. of God. The most sa-
 cred, sweet and holy thing on earth;
 the pledge of Heavei.
 The Old Testament Scriptures repre-
 sent the love of God for men under the
 symbol of the love of Q husband for
 his wife, jealous of purity and desirous
 of honoh, The New Testament Scrip,
 lures represent the love of God for men
 under the figure of the love of father
 for his children, patient, merciful, fol- giving and gracious, redeeming from
 sin at great cost of sacrifice to himself
 He who has not learned in some way
 through life's experience to know the
 love which is jealous for purity and
 which will suffer to save has missed
 the greatest lesson and knowledge of
 human life. Love everywhere, love of
 a man for his wife, love of a mother i for her child, love of a sister for her
 brother and love of man for his . friend--love always in its passion and
 it's prayer, in it's service and It's sacri-
 flee ought to Issue in belief in that love
 of God which serves men and which in . it's service redeems and sanetifies and
 serves. This should become the earth ly knowledge of every one gained from life's experiences; for we are told that the heavenly song will be to Him w0c ! loved, and redeemed and washed from sin and made men to be kings in like
 ness to God himself In that wonder ,, full scenic production called Creation | exhibited first in St. Louis and after , | wards at Coney Island there is a sug- gestionn of this truth. l know not : l whether the author was conscious oi the suggestion. When the curtain rises man with melodious voice re. l peats the first chapter of Genesis i During the repetition the course of ere. t ation proceeds before the eyes. The singing of chaotic clements rolling ir ; 1 confusion and darkness the separation i of Armament above from shapeles! ! forms beneath, the gleam of light or endless waters, the emergence of dry . land, the convulsions of earthquakC
 and volcanic eruption, the rolling storn
 with lightning and thunder the glean of stars, the light of day. the beauty O Iearth, the flowers and fruit and beast 9 and birds appear-all pass before thu , eyes. Then Adam appears sleeping and from the distance Eve approache a and stands beside him in awe and won a der; he wakes, surprised attracted filled with longing until he follows he n as she withdraws and at last reache . her, wins her, takes her hand, hold n her as his own and together they dis