Weekly journal-miner. [volume] (Prescott, Ariz.) 1908-1929, 1914-01-14
THE MODEL LOVE LETTER
(From Sundays Daily)
by Rev. Eastace Anderson)

ny Rev. EaStace Andersoh)
Certainly there has come to eacl
person carly in life the question
What i the greatest thing to hC
had in he: What J., worth while.
In that masterpiece Of Saint
, Paul's, the Thirteenth Chapter OF
First Corinthians. he has shown
what that greatest thing Is and
why. And John shows rs that in
reality even Love is 4 result: We
love because lie first loved us.
Paul contrasts love with the gifts
people were thinking most about
just thcn-thc gilt OF tongues, oi
prophecy, Of knowledge OF mystcr-
is and Of all things.
Is i not significant that he did
not even include money, nor fame,
nor influence
How artistic and how humble
Paul was in addressing this mes
sage He used the first person
singular when even suggesting the
possibility OF wrong, in order to
not offend and yet the more deeply
20 convince.
II l had the knowledge OF all
languages and could proclaim the
truth OF God in them in the most
eloquent manner and had not
heart full OF love to God and man,
producing piety and obedience OF
the one, and benevolence and bene-
ficience to the other-doing unto
all as l would be done unto-ny
religion is no more than the sounds
made by a brass trumpet or the
changing OF cymbals.
Josiah Gregory said: People OF
little religion are always noisy. He
who has not the love OF God and
man filling his heart is like an
empty wagon coming violently
down the hill; it makes great
noise because there is nothing in it. >"
Recall Athens, where they spent
their time in nothing else but
either to tell or to hear some new
thing. 1t is proverbial of Orientals
that nothing is reckoned as high rs
knowledge. HE who has taught
me letter has made me his slave,
they say. And yet when Paul
showed them that from one blood
God had created all nations, thus
forming brotherhood between all
men. they turned from him and
said: 1--WE will hear thee again
concerning these things" They
could not think OF loving all men.
Paul had drawn them from their
specializing theories to life as it
is-had shown them real values
and ii included love.
Jesus did the same thing when
he pointed enthusiastic and imprac-
ticabie Peter TO the valley below
the mount OF TRANSPORTATION. Peter
would have remained where ne had .
s,cn TIE vision, but he was shown
tina. the vision Is only to prepare .
rs to meet Ire need OF the masses I
own in the valley who have not
caught the vision. And Peter was
TO meet this need only through low
'ng them enough 10 give his life
TO them in service-and you and /
are to meet the crying need OF he
masses OF this day in the same
way, and not by good advice and
platitudcs merely.
Even all faith in God a1d in our
fellows, with its attendant reverence
Tor them both. without love is moth
ing. 1t is as a cipher with the
ring rubbed out" says Dr. Dixon; 4
clothes horse" says Carlisle.
ii l should give away all l have,
even lie, and have not love ii IS
As the counterfeit banknotc that
las gone the rounds and paid many
debts and relieved much want. yet
was refused at the bank whose
name il bore.
Sir Launfal found that Alms-giv-
ing, called Charity, was nothing
without love, and that it was
spurncd by the one who most need
ed an aims: For the gift without
the giver is bare. He who gives
himself with his aims feeds three
himself, his hungering neighbor and
me.
SO all other gifts amount to moth
ing without love.
See the wonderful things love
enables Us to do.
Love is kind. A woman got into
trouble over what she had said
about another. q only told the .
truth" But she had only told bad .
things and had not said 4 word |
about the good side She had
seen only the dark side Love
makes Won Kind m the clerks \