The Ogden standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1902-1910, 1910-06-06

10 man For OF love there are many
grades and degrees. Broadly defined
there Is q kind of love whose effort
purpose and means are possession and
whose end and aim are ones own
good
Such love as this is of necessity
selfish and while beautiful and neces-
sary i'm the economy Of the world, II
easily ceases 10 be a virtue and de
generates into vice. Such often is
the case with love OF country, love
OF an honorable name. love Of chill
dren, of wife, of husband and many
more.
When love of country deGenerates In
to love OF national glory, when love OF
an honor able name becomes love
OF fame. II ceases 10 he virtue and
becomes rather vice which STILES
our better natures.
Again. there is kind of love whose
means Is service. and whose end is
the happiness of others. This Is loves
highest type II is that touch of divin-
ily which makes all men brothers
II was this love of which Christ,
the Master spoke when he said:
"A new commandant | give unto
you-that we love one another
Ii was of this love that ST. Paul
wrote, IF / speak with the tongues
of men and OF angels. but have not
love. / am become sounding brass. or
tlnkllng symbal. And If i have
the gift OF prophecy and know all
mysteries and all knowledge. and II
] have all faith. so as TO remove noun
tains. but have not love. ! nm moth
ing And If bestow all my goods TO
feed the poor. and II ] give my body
TO be burned, hut have NOT love, II pro
f1teth me nothing. Love Suffereth long
and Is kind, love enyieth not, love
vaunteth not Itself. iS not puffed up.
doth not behave Itself unseemly. seek
9th not its own, Is not provident. TAX
eth not account of evil: rejoicotb not
In unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with
the truth beareth all things. bellev-
eth all things, hopeth all things. en-
dureth all things, Love never fail
eth -
This love lis the inspiration of patrl-
otism, philanthropy and religion. In
splred by It, the humble soldier lays
down his life on the battlefield. the
mother joyfully gives her health and
strength for her children. and men
and women carry the message of its
gospel to all lands and people. II
is that love which feeds the hungry
cares for the sick. helps the poor and
sympathizes with the sorrowful. the
unfortunate and the unhappy.
Inspired by It. Jesus Christ bore the
cross. St Paul endured stripes and
persecution.
1t led Livingstone into the fever In
tested lands of darkest Africa. and
inspired the sanity ninistrations OF
Florence Nightingale.
II sustained Abraham Lincoln
through four years of cruel war, and
was In the heart OF Grant when he
gave back TO Lee his sword at Apo
mattox. For this love is noble, gener-
Gus and kind With this love In the
heart. all men are brothers and moth
ers. wives, sisters and daughters are
safe from the passions of men.
This love is-frnternlty-th corner
stone OF our noble order
II inspired its organization, and
makes II strong and powerful
1t leads us 10 remember the future
The time when lIfes labor ended. lying
here In the silent city of the dead, We
shall have no need no caro-, no want
unsaushcd. or TO be satisfied. And
yet. closely entwined in our heart
strings are others-wlfe, children,
loved ones-and we would not leave
them uncared for, and so on the found
alton of our love has been butt this or
der of Woodmen OF the World. living
testimony that men do indeed love
one another
What think You then would be the
message OF these our dead, whose
monuments are around about us to-
day. II. bending low. We could catch
a whisper from these mute graves?
On this day dedicated 10 their mem
ory, In this place consecrated 10 their
dust, let each Of us, the living. listen
ing intently. with open heart and
purified spirit. catch this message and
learn this lesson from the dead. The
true life comes through loving ser
vice