The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-04

healed by a love great enough To De
synonymous with God. 1t is of more
the Greek word which Paul employs
throughout this chapter is the same
word ,"Agapa," which John used
when he wants synonym for the In
finite and cries God is love-"
The Secret of Beauty.
One of Drummond's illustrations is
of the girl whose beautiful character
was the wonder and delight of all her
| friends The secret was revealed at
her death by a 1ocket which she wore
over her heart containing the words,
| whom, not having seen, 1 love
This love for Christ and love from
Christ and love of Christ, which is
the divine quality that Paul apotheo-
sizes, Is the most winsome of all the
attributes of character. 1t changes
lives. Even the face is TRANSPORTED.
The world has never invented COS
metic like love.
The commonest substitute for it is
cleverness. To be clever, we reason.
is to be admired. But cleverness ana
| cynicism are so frequently synony-
NOUS Clever folk are often cruel and
selfish; and they are feared as much
as thew are envied. Love, however, Is
! the mother gift. 1t begets affection
| Everybody loves the loving man or
woman, who even is loving toward the
| shallow, the selfish and the near
heather.
classification, writes hard and ugly
| lines on the face and on the life: but
love which '"ThinkeIh no evil, makes
calm and serene countenances and
| spirits.
Self-interest is as changeful as
weather-vane, and the society which
exists for the qualification of its own
impulses and desires is afflicted with
plague of divorces. Love In nu-
man relationships spells loyalty, for
! love never faileth.'' Instead of a
weak and silly and sensual sentiment
tality, which fees with its whims to
the divorce court, love stands steady
| and strong, and grows brighter every
day.
The Mansion of Many Rooms.
| The acid-test is boldly applied tp
love by Paul He is not afraid OF
comparisons. Selecting the greatest
gifts known to the Church, he lays
love alongside of each of them and
shows its superiority. The gifts of
tongues, which seemed like a special
seal of divine favor, is mere clangins
gift, with its prophetic element, which
made a man a leader in the Church. Is
nothing without love. Even faith
without love, Is vain Philanthropy,
too. with all it's beneficence, and the
distinction that attached thereto, is
emptiness without love. Even the gift
of martyrdom, 80 highly esteemed by
the early Church, is profitless without
Hove. These are daring comparisons,
but the Apostle does not hesitate to
make them.
Like a mansion of many rooms. the
house of love. as described by Paul.
has many chambers, each spacious
and beautiful. He enumerates fifteen
| of the aspects of love.
Love suffers long.
As kind.
Envies not.
4 Els not boastful.
4 : Is not selfjnflated.
Is decorous and we1l-behaved.
| Seeks not its own.
| Not easily provoked.
| Thinketh no evil.
Has no pleasure in evil.
| Rejoices in what is true.
| Is patient; beareth all things.
Is trustful; believeth all things.
Is optimistic; hopeth all things.
Is steadfast; endureth all things.
| And now abideth faith, hope, love,
these three; but the greatest of these
is love-"