The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1914-02-24

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is Gods glory. Thus we understand
God with fresh vision; and this newer
conception of Him is being written
into huganitarian measures IN legls-
lation and social service activities
among men. Because God loves We
must love too. The reasoning Is
Johns in the first century. but the
application is ours in h twentieth
century. Life in God If life, in love.
From a different angle, we have come
to behold the real lrrelision OF hatred,
malice. jealousy, and all evil think
ing. Thoughts Of love and It's attri-
butes-good will, trustfulneSs. and op-
timism--are all God-faVored
| So far as il goes. the a IS right IN
| placing its accent upon religion as q
gospel of love.
Some things pass definition. All the
poets and philosophers n novellsts
nave for ages been writing about the
love of man for woman and woman
for man. One might read them all, II
life were long enough, and still not
understand the diyine passion. one
hours experience oyerleaps an OF
definition. Two young lovers know
more OF love in a day than the specu-
lative PHILOSOPHER has been able to
learn IL a lifetime Of study. So it is
with the greater Low Of God. 1t
must be experienced to be understood.
/ MANY al u I'll peasant, diIiC =
the passion for God, has reached
heights Of spiritual comprehension de-
MED to the learned scientist. We
learn God by the heart, rather than
by reasoning processes. So to know
Him is to discover that God is love"
Love OF love makes the sentiment
talist; low of God makes the saint.
Nobody can eXaggerate the love OF
God. We may misinterpret it, and
substitute for it a mere mushy senti-
mentality which recks not of either
law or of divine ideals. But the poet
right who sings:
For the love of God is broader
Than the measure of mans mind,
And the heart Of the Eternal
Is most wonderfully kind.'
Some other things naturally go
with love. Loyalty is one. Lawless
love, Of any sort, is not love but r.
cense. There are two lobes to the hu-
man heart and to the human brain: |
is marked loyalty and the other un-
and there are two lobes to love; one
is marked loyalty and the other I'm
~selfishness. If either of these quail |
ties be lacking, then the ~so-called
love is only some spurious imitation.
A mere wild "do-as-you-please'' pas.
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perfect name Of love, which is tho
one adequate synonym for the inef.
fable name Of God.
If h family cat is not moro
comfortable for his masters religion.
Some folk make occasional excur-
Slons into love, like their infrequent
visits TO the n~eighboring city; but
the New Testament type of Christian
IS a permanent resident. He ''abideth
IN love- Love is normal to him.. His
and laws~are all those Of
love. The Godlike qualities of COM.
passion and forgiveness and helpful.
ness are his qualities also. His con.
summing ambition is to express in his
life the love Of God which he ex.
perlences in his heart.
n old legend tells how John the
Beloved, in his declining DAYS at
Phesus, used to say, over and ove1
again TO the congregation, Little
cnlldren, love one another" When
the officers Of the church yentured
to suggest that they would like an
otner message, he replied, There is
no otner message; little children.
iove one another The story was evil
IDENTIFY in the mind Of Frances IA
WOOD when she wrote these lines in
ner beautiful poem, "St. John the
Aged: 'ohn 'he
SO, raise up my head.
low dark 1t is! | can not seem 10 SEQ
~ races OF my flock. Is that theI
Ana' murmurs so, or is it weeninop
Hush!
My little children. God so loved +ha
world 0 'ho
he gave his Scr. SO love We ono
other; LII
1--we 900 and man, Amen. Now boar
me back, "e
MY legacy unto an angry world *
l ieei my work is finished. Are tho
streets SO full? ne
what cal the folk my name Cha
Nay, write me rather Jesus
Christ's beloved,
ana lover Of my children"
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