The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-12-02
REV. TYLER TALKS ON
 NE|GHBORLY LOVE
Explains Meaning of Love
 Thy Neighbor"
CANNOT DEFINE LOVE
Heaven on Earth Would Result When Every Man Loves His Neigh bor As He Loves Himself,
 Says Preacher

I The Rev. R. E. Tyler. recently trans ferred by the North Alabama Methodist conference from the Norwood church to | the East Lake Methodist church. took IT his work there yesterday. The church was we'll filled and pr. Tyler had an suspicious beginning In his sermon he used as his theme "The Other Man., or "Our Social Programme,'' from the text of St. Luke 1o:27. Love Thy Nelghbor as Thyself." He said in part;
 There are three things in this text well worth our attention. Love your self and the other fellow. We will study two of them today, leaving the other for another time. Self is not so important anyway. And yet it may be that it is true that there are many down in the slums and gutters who are there because they do not think enough of themselves--do not realize the dignity of manhood and womanhood-their kinship with God. But we will notice just nere, however. the other man and Love
 The Ties of Love
 We are commanded here to love our selves and the other man. How and how much is the question. Now, love is in- definable It is one of those few terms that you have to hold up and look at you can't tell anybody how to love. Most everybody knows, but if there is an {, Id bachelor who does not you can't tell him. Love was born when society was created. It is the sympathetic tie that unites and is as the Book says: As strong as death.
 ''The lesson that there IS some one else in the world besides self and a tie of brotherhood was impressed upon us in the very dawn of human history. God asked Cain: Where is your brother?' The same question in the New Testament the question here now-Who is my neigh bor?'
 "The saddest sentence. in the Bible is' NO one careth for my soul There are thousands of bad men today who are down and out because some one did not find them and love them back sooner I believe there is no one but who has something good in them. Our mission is to find and develop that, not the bad.
 Type of Love
 "The type of love required towards the other man is I am sure not the eni- mai, passionate possibly mixed with pla- tonic, that exists between mother and her child But you say: Are you going to compromise? No. Just stick to the Book. He does not ask me to love a neighbor like I do my wife-I could not do that-like a brother, sister child,
  mother, father. He does not ask you young people to love a neighbor like you do your sweethearts. You could not do that only where both were comprehended in one We are not asked to do any Of these impossibles. We are asked to love them like we love ourselves We may love ourselves as much but with a very different type of love to that existing in these other cases.
 And my friends, if we would come up to that standard we would not need to go further for we would have almost heaven on earth. When men treat the other fellow as he would have him to treat him, we need not bother about the coarser feelings of physical reia- tionships.
 "To know then the test of love to- ward the other fellow required by this text it is necessary to see how l love myself 1. You love yourself to the extent that you will not harm yourself in any way. Some do not love their neghbors that much g. Then you love yourself to the extent that you will do yourself all good you can in every way you can to body, mind, and soul. Do you love your neighbor that much? Why, if people would go out to work on that kind of a platform we would soon see the milen- ium."