The Washington herald., 1914-11-06

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love has to give. Always love
increases By giving II is only when love ceases to
give that il loses The moment ii becomes selfish its
very life is in Danger Often love dies because of its
exactious But where love seeks always to give, it
icsn never die Perhaps here We may find the secret
Iof Infinite Love There are those who say that this
law of love is the law Of the universe.
4 Shakespeare knews not merely because of his M
sight, but through his practice as well For the more
he wrote the more he had to write about. Practice
sharpened his insight led him into greater and greater
richness of thought and fancy
once heard distinguished writer talking about
his work. He loved It passionately! Though he had
long passed his sxteth year he used TO say that he
still retained his zest for writing He had so many
ideas that he couldn't keep up with them He hoped
that he might live for many years more so that he
might go on writing books.
Some one asked him how he could explain his
continued fertility Of mind. "Oh." he replied with
laugh, "it isn't my mind that deserves credit It's
life. As one grows older life grows richer. There
are more and more things to think about. So there
are more and more things TO write about"
The truth was, Of course, that the more he prac-
ticed thinking and writing the finer grew his mind,
the more capable of receiving and utilizing thoughts
In other words the more he gave out the more he
had, the more he spent, the richer he became.
There are many nowadays who recognize this law
of increase They apply it even to health One man
of my acquaintance says that he didn't learn how to
live he meant to live physically till he had passed his
fftieth year "Then / realized the meaning of the
laws of health" he once said to me, "and tried to
follow them The more adapt myself the better the
results Now the more work do the better feel
actually believe that with me- at any rate the ex-
penditure of energy increases the energy"
He was fairly bubbling with life He had zesi
for living, Just as the writer have quoted had zest
for writing The more he exercised this zest the
more power he acquired.
1t is wonderful how much do by practicing
what is wholesome Consider sympathy, for example.
The more sympathy one sends out, the more SYM
pathy one has. Here, of course use the word in
the sense of understanding, Of the capacity to feel
with Others The more one forgets oneself and feels
with others. the greater one becomes He ceases to
be a mere individual He becomes related to all
humanity. a- a... .es -..
And the law of increase and of widening relations
applies to all the virtues. ~
Some months ago a friend found his eyes weaken
ing He tried to use them little as possible. They
grew weaker. Then he went to an oculist After
making an examination, the oculist said: What your
eyes need is regular exercise They have become
habby You must read systematically each day for an
increasing length of time The ocuist then indicated
the time, beginning with half hour and increasing
FIVE minutes day till several hours had been reached
You know, of course, about the blind fish that
have been discovered in streams running through
subterranean waters. Once FISH Of their kind had
eyes But generations of darkness made the eyes
useless.
Our faculties are like our muscles lfswe neglect
them they weaken and perish. The more We use them
the stronger they become and the more productive.
All life is like the Golden Gate. From one side
it looks restricted and But beyond the con-
fines Of thought and aspiration and endeayor hes the
open sea- inspiring, far-reaching, inexhaustible.