The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1909-08-26

oil. a few days
after the departure of the Manila ship,
while there was a strong breeze, and
n rough sea, the surface became all at
once as smooth as mill pond, al
though the breeze continued. On
looking over the side, the crew dscov-
cred that they were sailing through
sea of oil. They continued in this oil
track for three days. On arriving at
her destination, 1t was found that the
Armador had arrived a little while
before with some of the oil casks
broken. and that her sailors had been
continually pumping oil cut of the
hold into the sea. On comparing logs,
II appeared that when the oily sur
face was first seen, the two ships
were at least two hundred miles
apart. Such is the effect of oil upon
the troubled waters.
Love, Lubricant.
Now, in our lesson for to-day, Paul
says that love has the same power
over the stormy passions of life. He
gives list of things we are forbid.
dem to do-the second table of the
commandments, and then says that
love is the secret of our ability to
keep them, Love is the fulfilling of
the law" II we have love. of the right
kind, and enough of it, we need not
worry about our ability to keep every
one of the commandments. Love is
the golden rule in practice. 1t is
wonderful pacitier A little love will
go long way in calming troubled
scene, and stilling angry passions. Let
us but carry a large cargo of the oil
OF love. and when the storms are
raging around us, keep the pumps
working, pouring heavens pacificator
upon the troubled waters.
1T is love that thou lackest, thou
poor old world!
Who shall make thy love hot for
thee, frozen old world?
Thou are not happy as thou mightest
be,
For the love of dear Jesus is little
in thee.
Thus F. w. Faber sings the truth
divineIy stated,-"the greatest of
these is love"
Love, a Mantle.
Suppose we should insist upon max.
ing the best of one another! Every
one has his weakness. his faults, and
We may make the worst of these by
critically fixing our attention constant
ly upon them. The caricaturist sees
everything twisted, distorted, exag-
gerated, out of proportion; the artist
sees the angel in every rough block
OF marble, and beauty everywhere. The
difference is in the men, in their eyes,
what they are looking for. Love is
not blind, but love carries mantle,
and like Noahs sons Walks back
ward. with averted face, and hides
the shame" By loving whatever is
lovable in others, and there is no one
who has not some lovely traits, love
will flow hack from them to us, and
life will become a pleasure, rather
than pain, earth will be transformed,
and we shall be unconsciously chang
ed into His image, whose name is
love.
Only love can do this. To delight
In the graces and veil the defects of
the person who opposed your plans,
whose peculiar infirmities CRATE on
the sensibilities, and from whose con-
spicuous faults your whole being re-
coils, is the highest summit of love.
But that is the only true, real love,
and its exercise stamps the possessor
as being heaven-born.
Give water to thy thirsty foe,
The sandal tree, as if 10 prove
How sweet to conquer hate by love
Perfumes the ak that lays it low"
Love, Self-Sacrifcins.
In the Boston Public library there
has Just been unveiled picture by
noted artist, entitled THE Redemp-
ton" 1t is delineation of the cruci-
fed Christ. The painter, in order to
tell the story of the self-sacrificing
love of the Son of God, has repre-
sented at the foot of the cross coil
ed serpent, pressed under the feet of
Christ. It is the picture of divine
love, surrendering itself tn death, that
II might bruse the serpents head,
and by so doing redeem the race from
SIN. Suppose he had stood upon his
rights, had allowed those who had
sinned to take the consequences, had
sat in conscious rectitudc far off, re.
ferring to men in tones of pity, but
lifting no finger to relieve them. He
III a
no obligation to do otherwise. 1t was
pure benevolence, unmerited favor,
Tree grace and dying love, which
caused him to bear our sins In His
own body on the tree"