The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-12-12

being controlled seeming often I'M
consciously and guided only by tn,
spirit of selflshness.
Love of this temperament is alwav,
hck1e and uncertain Influenced alone
oy It's centripetal action it coulC
scarcely be otherwise, selfish human
nature is ever hard to satisfy. Con
troIled and guided by this love it's pos
SCISSOR may live today in the most
| profuse ardency Of it's expression to
! morrow change to cruel indifference
and neglect, even to open hatred and
Drtual treatment as former pleasures
take a new form and a new love and
| devotion are created. Now they may
i bring to you the comfort and help
OF an apparent good will and sym
pathEgntheir shallow nature concealed
f behinUSa pleasing exterior, then for
! get You, and leave you to yourself to
get along. the best way you can with
no furtheT thought or interest in
! your weHAre4 or comfort, though your
need may be times greater and
the sweetness - love and the joy
OF friendRhip and companionship in
the first ~bfhsh of it's brief existence
changed tdA the poignancy of sorrow
and Disappointment
Human beings are endowed with
the spirit of loysse.with purity o.
character, with a 81 Ss justice and
with a knowledge of ~eonsciousness Of
right, but so often love has been de-
filled, character has been corrupted
justice dethroned and right forsaken
by sin begotten by mans own per-
verseness and selfish DESIRES
There is also a love that creates in
our hearts a desire to help, to do good
to some one as it's need is made evi-
dent and brought to our attention, or
knowledge. We will call this centri-
fugal love a flowing out from the
center. This is the love that is NOV
ed by sympathy and responds to the
appeal of the unfortunate and dis
stressed, administers to the. suffering
with gentle and tender touch and to
the needs of the destitute with lib
eral and generous abundance. 1t feeds
the hungry and clothes the naked; car
ries cheer to the lonely and down
cast, hope to the discouraged and fal-
tering. AS freely as it has received
freely it gives. It's joy is in giving
joy. its pleasure in giving pleasure, it's
happiness in making happy
No one can do much for or be of
much holp to another no matter how
great the need unless there be first
felt an interest in him; and there is
nothing that creates within our hearts
a deep sympathetic interest in anoth-
er's welfare or unfortunate cOndi-
lion, in their success or failure, and
gives one real. desire to help so
rauch as love. No present sense of
duty can fill it's place. Duty in the
absence Of the warmth and tender
ness OF love is a@cold and often bar {
rem thing and performed in q compul- !
sorry and %perfunctory manner, is.
lacking in imparting" that restful
comforting feeling that love alone
can give. Duty may seek an excuse
to shirk to seek a way ~Os escape from
the performance of an act demanding |
attention; love seeks a way to help
and is ever Jealous and Watchful to
manifest itself in good and helpfuli
deeds. II
It is love that makes sacrifices a /
pleasure and bring happiness to one
who gladly relinduishes his own COM
fort and pleasure for the sake of an !
other. It is the inexhaustible treas
ure from which all may receive the
sweetest joys and happiness of life.
Nothing else can satisfy, nothing else
can take it's place Or fill it's need.
Every day brings obligations in the
re sponsibilities in which l1fe's duties
must be met and there is needed con-
faith to help over difficult places,
make bearable burdensOme duties,
and weary moments to endure which
occur often with such appalling ire
uency in so many lines and are never
absent in any. With heart over
flowing with love, the darkest way
may be made bright and saddened
hours changed to joy and gladness.>.
There is nothing else so much
needed in this life as love-love for the
sick and suffering, for the destitute
and needy, for all of earth's unfortun-
ate ones whose saddened conditions
appeal so earnestly for love and sym,
pathy. Why are many forsaken and
forgotten, discouraged and downcast:
to the point of dependency in their
conscious helplessness and gloomy
whose darkened existence
might be 11elpfully Frightened, render
ed brave before discouragements ana
made happier by just a bit OF love- a
owe that flames from q real desire to
help and forgets self. There are many
saddened lives silently appealing for
some heartfelt concern and manl1es-
tation of love and sympathy. 1t Is
now some ones opportunity and priv
1ege to dispel the gloom of sorrow :
rom a darkened life by CHEEKY words
and helpful deed. Only love and sym =
,athv can do this. Just give love and
,11 things else needed will naturally
follow. e,
ng of sympathy. There may not al
vavs be love where there is sympa-
'hy ~ or shall we cali it cold pity? But
here could be no love where there ]
3 no sympathy for love is a stranger I
o" the heart dead to the tender feel
ngs of sympathy. Take away sympa- ]
nv from love and there would be left ;
,n1v a sensual passion and interest as
Wild and beast1y as the uncontrolleo
natures of the animal world
f. - an insenarab1e condition or at {