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 Brother. ae nef speak that hafSa word You have no Idea h0a ,lssep k nrehe cuts. Sister. do not make that bitter interpretation You think the person against whom yon speak IL will not hear about t. He will. be will He vii bear atsaat f in its meaness and most malignant form know your tHstheF Rlsy have wroaged yoa: but IF .Il1elliher tht infustlceS which be has dulie you caa never justify the angry thoughts you h1ve against hlm. Love pslss .he safferingS of your enemy atove yopr SufreriusS and ;he heartactes uf those against whom yon are utter ing those stiasiax words above your own hearracheS Love suiIereih long aa4 Is kind. Is a8t easily provoked, taiukelh uo evi. aeareth all things. ee- i4evelh al. things, hopeth all things, en. dHFeia si things
 ka{ We do aet always want Co he It. tle ebI}dren in tt}e Kindergarten 0f love Ne do not alWsyS wish to k spiritual ha afies learning fi1e negative Siie Of the goslei- Wblch tells ns Don't to this aHA Don't io lalat.' and Don't da the other tbiug We should grow in grace and sruM Ri spiritual power and earn h utter some ogHer prayer than the little Retitian-
 Now lay me down to sleep
 pray The Lord my soul to keep which We learned years ago al our mothers' knees And so the next great step iD the way of love is, Never give pain. physical or mental 10 another The second Is like unto the tirst. oals little higher iu spiritual life When We love our neighhors We must rejoice with them in tAeir days of prosperity As their sorrows should be our ser- rows, so their temporal and spiritual triamphs should he our temporal and spiritual triumphS Their lives IS trees are grafted 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 tHmuai nuggets of gold were taken from our own branches. Do you grasp the farreaehing significance of my text? And the greatest of these Is love" The more others prosper the tisofe we should rejoice.
 Jealous Of Others Success.
 Rut. strange to say. some evil minded eYaies look aRen the success and the prosperity of other people Us au insult to themselves. Fiity feel that If they eaHHat have all tue HoHors and all the praises Of success they do not Vani uIf one else to hare those honors And nef only that. but hy sneers they wit d. atll in their power to undermine an others work. Here. for Instance. is college president For years and yeafs h. is the Cfieia head of the institution For years aisi years he mods tie characters ef tHe heys and 1he girls aaaer him He has the devoted fel lowing of the officers and teachers. but when his work is done he sometimes seems to he angry because those same officers and teachers give the same loyalty to his successor as they accord. ed to him and because the college k making greater success after he leaves the institution. Why should not that cid college president be happy at the success of his successor? Why should not the minister be happy when he hears that tue man who follows him in his pulpit is more beloved and is doing a greater work than he was privileged to do?
 But you cannot rejoice with man In his days of prosperity unless at the same time you are willing to sympa- thZe with him .n the days of his sor TOW. And yon cannot truly sympathize with a friend in his time of trial unless at the same time You are willing to do everything in your power to overcome his mental. moral and spiritual weak nesses and help him te reetify the His takes he has made. Have you been willing to do that? IIave you sncl. an overwhelming love of mankind in your heart that you will do everything and anything 10 help your brother out Of his present difficulties?
 Friend. could there he q better mes sage for us to dwell upon this morning than this of love25"0h.' I said. If l can only get my people to feel and practice this divine love ali will be well" Will you let this divine grace eradicate all hate and bitterness from your heart? Will you go today to the man against whom you have grudge and take him by the hand and say. Let us quit our enmities for Christ's sake" Indeed. it is not so hard for some of us to say that, for Christ. whom we love and whose example we are 10 follow. has taught us to pray. Forgive us our trespasses as we for give those who have trespassed against us" Oh. for a baptism of divine love, And the greatest Of these is leve.' -
 There is a star tha, beams on earth
 With tender. lovely ray
 That lights the path Of generous worth
 And speaks a brighter day.
 IL is friendship
 There Is tie. a golden chain
 That binds with stronger hand
 Than iron shaekies of the cell
 Or all he arts of man
 IL IS ioEe.
 There is gem a pearl of worth.
 As lasting as the skies
 More dazzling than the gems of earth;
 Its splendor never dies
 IL Is truth
 Three angel spirits-eyerrnore
 They guard our thorny way.
 And those who follow where they lead
 Can never so sstray.
 For God hath given them alike
 To childhood and 10 youth.
 And age is meilowed by the touch
 Of friendship love and truth.
 fCopyright 1908. by Louis Klopsch.)
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