Los Angeles herald., 1910-12-11

The light of home Is love, and where
this light shines serene and untroubled
by any i'll wind from without there Is
enduring peace. Poets have always
sung love as the great reality of hu-
man experience, but even oftener they
have sung sorrowfully of the time wher
love is done. The love which Christians
may learn at the feet of Jesus how
ever. is not this transient and doubtful
affection of mortals. Poets have IN
deed at moments discerned that 1t Is
not love which alters when 1t altera-
tion finds, or for any other cause, Dut
it is only a pure Christianity which
can show men how to love endurlngiy
The social air today is full or dls-
cussion Of the home question Separa .
tion with the attendant sorrows OF
motherless or fatherless children. is
seen by many people to be great eVll
Of this hour. Mrs Eddy gives a most
clear and beautiful teaching on TINS
subject in "Science and Health with
Key to the Scriptures" page 90, Where
she says: "Beholding the worlds lack
Of Christianity and the powerlessness
of vows to make home happy, the hu-
man mind will at length demand a
higher affection. Matrimony, which
was once a fixed fact among us, must
lose it's present slippery footing, ana
man must find permanence and peace
in O more spiritual adherence.
The sorrows of those who thougHt
they loved, yet find that their dreams
Of home Joys is not realized are not 10
be passed over with scom or WIN
condemnation. There is much sulIer-
ing for those who believed that love
could and would endure, and who ma
that without always knowing how there
is a drifting apart, a gradual estrange-
ment, or the presence of actual ols-
cord where harmony was sought IL
is the materlalistic sense or a1ectloh
which brings this disillusionment. Plac,
ing love on a false basis of personal
sense, on love Of admiration, on SELF
seeking Of one sort or another, ooIh
man and woman find dust and ashes
where happy harvests were proiiilseu'
LOVE Is UNsELFIsH
No human affection can ever endure
except as 1t is based on divine Love;
When the love of God Is known and
felt, this overbroods all the home loves
and makes them beautiful He who
goes into the home circle fresh from
prayer and communion with od must
bring a breath of heaven with hin'
and this has its cooling dews and viVl-
flying touch for the human tenderness
which else must droop and pale IN the
dust of the daily round
But some one will say that he or sne
does not know how to bring this fresh
ness of spiritual life to the companion
ships Of earth. The heart seems dulled
to the finer harmonies of Spirit. ana
such people indeed seek in the human
love the distant reflection Of the divine
which shall assure them that GOD Is
Love. Now Jesus gave us full warrant
for expecting the human loves Wnen
loved rightly to teach US something OF
the divine. To love rightly, however,
means to love unselfishly. It Is at last
analysis the selfish element In human
affection which brings them to ship
wreck. Humanity must know love as
too high and holy thing to be looked
l1pon as a mere selfish enjoyment or as
the mere purveyor to human comfort
The ennuh and blankness that come TO
mortals who supposed their mutual
love would be a lasting source or JOY
may be explained by the materiaiism
of human consciousness. Let those who
think they have lost the delicacy ana
sweetness and charm from their asso-
Citations strive to put self out OF sight
wholly for the sake of their loved ones,
and then watch to see the sure return
ing tide of happiness come In from the
great deeps of spiritual reality. 10
strive to love as God loves is the secret
of good loving, the kind that heals ana
saves and brings satisfaction.
PEACE MAY BE WON
Gods love is a giving love, love
that seeks not it's own. 1t may not
always be possible for one to establish
a perfect home relation with another
who is selfish and makes no stand
- ,.otne4 calf a hsorptiou or Self-Seeking.