Milford chronicle., 1908-05-01
Mental sufferinss.

you on the field and gave you head
ache for days never hurt you as die
the cruel word, the harsh criticism, thu
unkind Misrepresentation. OF the mar
whom you had trusted as a friend
You all know what physical pain is
Some Of you have been under the tor
ture Of the surgeons knife; but though
your physical pains have been great,
ask you II any pain has been so ex
eruciatinS as that inflicted by one
whom you have loved as a brother and
who has brutally turned against you
/ as Brutus struck his patron Caesar
| Now. my friends, If you have suffered
so much from the attacks OF those
| whom you love, beware how you give
pain to others. whether friends or stran-
gers. II you have suffered so grievous-
| " from the harsh words. the uncharita'
bic insinuations, the malevolent IN
truths of those who have treacherously
turned against you without cause, learn
the lesson and look well to your OWL
conduct, lest you sin against another.
The law OF love works both ways. To
deserve Gods love we must graft the
lives Of others into our lives and make
their sufferings our sufferings and their
heartaches our heartaches
Brother, do not speak that harsh
word. You have no idea how deep its
probe cuts. Sister. do not make that
bitter Interpretation. You think the
person against whom you speak It will
not hear about It. He will; he will
He will hear about 1t in its meanest
and most malignant form. know your
brother may have wrOnged you; but, re
member, the injustices which be has
done you can never justify the angry
thoughts you have against him. Love
puts the sufferings Of your enemy
above your sufferings and the heartaches|
Of those against whom you are utter
ing those singing words above your
own heartaches. Love sufereth long
and is kind. is not easily provoked,
thinketh no evil. beareth all things, be
lieveth all things, hopeth all things, en-
dureth all things"
But we do not always want to be 1T
tie children in the kindergarten Of love.
We do not always wish TO be spiritual
babies learning the negative side OF the
gospel. which tells US Don't to this
and Don't do that" and Don't do the
other thing" We should grow In grace
and grow in spiritual power and learn
to utter some other prayer than the
little petition
Now I lay me down to sleep
! pray the Lord my soul to keep
which we learned years ago at our
mothers knees. And so the next great
step in the way of love is. Never give
pain, physical or mental, to another"
The second is like unto the irst, only a |
little higher in spiritual life. When |
we love our neighbOrs we must rejoice
with them in their days of prosperity.
As their sorrows should be our sOr-
rows, so their temporal and spiritual
triumphs should be our temporal and
spiritual triumphs. Their lives as trees
are grated upon us. Then we. as the
old orange trunk supporting them,
should rejoice at the gathering of their
fruits just as much as though the au.
tumnal nuggets of gold were taken
from our own branches. Do you grasp
the farreaching significance of my
text? "And the greatest Of these is
love" The more others prosper the
more we should rejoice.
Jealous of Others Success.
But, strange to say, some evil minded
cynics look upon the success and the
Of other people as an insult
to themselves. They feel that if they
cannot have all the hOnOrs and all the
praises Of success they do not want
any one else to have those honors. And
not only that. but by sneers they will
do all in their power to undermine an
others work Here. for instance, is Q
college president. For years and years
he is the official head of the institution
For years and years be mOlds the
characters of the boys and the girls
under him. He has the devoted fol
lowing of the officers and teachers, but
when his work is done he sometimes
seems to be angry because those same
officers and teachers give the same
loyalty to his successor as they accord
ed to him and because the college is
making a greater success after be
leaves the institution. Why should not
that old college president be happy al
he success of his successor? Why
should not the minister be happy when
ne hears that the man who follows him
N his pulpit is more beloved and lie
ioing a greater work than be was
privileged to do?
But you cannot rejoice with man
n his days Of prosperity unless at the
same time you are willing to sympa-
hize with him in the days of his sor-
'ow. And you cannot truly sympathize
With a friend in his time of trial unless
It the same time you are willing to dc
everything in your power to overcome
lis mental. moral and spiritual weak
and help him to rectify the mis-
axes he has made. Have you beer
willing to do that2 Have you such
in overwhelming love Of mankind in