The Alaska citizen., 1915-08-30
BY THE REV. c. c. BRUCE.

! feed knows not love. It is common for us to mistake joy for love. We have certain happiness of spirit and think that other people pught to feel like We do. But if We have love We will put it to service and sacri-
 flee that others may possess what We think We possess, but in the working of il out find that our joy was only superfluous in it's working when compared with the new spirit of love made manifest in service.
 Love means giving, not receiving asking not answering. Do not ques- ton life overmuch. Accept it, serve and sacrifice and give and never mind the answer. Joy comes through what We give. not through what We take: happiness through serving. not l through being served. and peace ] through labor, not rest Shall we become highwaymen, taking. taking that We may have joy? Rather let us become servants, giving, ever have joy, true joy, lasting joy, that your joy may be full"
 ! How juvenile We are at times. 1 hoping to get in as much time" as We can, rather than as much work as We can All service must be performed in the spirit of love if We shall hope to have it a successful work, and we must so love our work that We can sing at our task. We must not only perform our own work. but must assist others in their work There must be zeal to do all We can rather than as little as possible.
 The more love one gives the more one has. It is much like the legend take anything to heaven except the things he had given away to others. | The foundation of all service is love, and the rule of service is thought fitness. Love is just and kind, love is not greedy and covetous Love exploits no one; it takes no un- earned gains; it gives more than it goes. Love does not break down the lives of other to make wealth for itself; it makes wealth to build thn life of all Love seeks solidarity: it tolerates no divisions; it prefers equal work mates; it shares it's suf- ficiency. Love enriches all, helps all. eladdens all'
 Real happiness in this world does not depend upon our outward cond- tion A man may be very poor and very happy. very rich and very mis- erable. The life is more than meat and the body than raiment Your life consists not in the abundance of the things which you possess. The land of wealth is not the empire of peace, else how few could live in that empire. But the land of tiNltt "iouSHl III loNt IS dll elllpllt in itself full of all good things When the spirit of doing things enters that realm, "try them" to see if they are of God for many false spirits have gone out into the world. The humblest, plainest. narrowest life may be the sweetest. if it so wills i Tn your heart are the birds and
 sunshine,
 In your thoughts the broolllets
 flow"
 1 To know that life is good ore must be conscious of helping to | make it good for someone else. It is only when We come to walk in the spirit of the Master that We come to know that life is opportunity rich as earth, high as heaven and deep as the soul. It is only in min istering to one another; in bearing one another's burdens; in sharing one another's joy, that we become human and really live. Though men may differ in faith. there is al ways one platform on which they all may stand and that is the plat form of charity and kindness. Prn- ciples of right are always the same | the world over. Truth cannot be truer one day than another day. But it is the spirit in which the truth is made known to the world that causes dissension of the world, or the joy of it. If men would look to the things upon which they agree and keep on looking, the time would soon some when men would agree on all things and strife and vain glory would have no place for love and joy would have taken all place
 For some good reason God has withdrawn from his children the
 power to work miracles, in giving sight to the blind, hearing to the deaf, speech to the dumb and strength to the weak; but we can
 work miracles of mercy by relieving the suffering, easing the pain, bear IL. nlxi. fa locr