The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29
ELOQUENT SERMON .ON COMMANDMENT BY DR. STUART
Three Kinds of Love-EmO- tional, Ethical and Rea-
 sonable From Scripture
ILLUSTRATION OF HEART, SOUL, MIND
 AND BODY, GIVEN
"Laws of God Are Only Guards Placed Around Us to Bring Us Into the Green Fields of
 Heaven," Said Minister


 Heaven," Said Minister
 Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart; with all thy soul, and with all thy mind are the three cardinal points Tn love-" said Dr. George R. stuart yester- day morning in his sermon at the First Methodist church, when he preached an eioouent sermon from the subject, 'Ihe Great Commandments.
 Facts always go ahead of philosophy; Gods .socdness has been shown through the world for all of these years, but up to the time John mentioned love, in John iii, 16-'For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, that who soever believed in him should not perish. but have everlasting lfe'-the word love had never been mentioned in the New Testament, but after that, it's love, love, love of God for his people. And we come to these words: Love the Lord thy God with all thy heart. with all thy soul, anu all thy mind We must consider what it means.
 LOVE DEFINED
 with all thy heart, that is emotional love; with all thy soul, that is ethical love, and with all thy mind, that is req sonable love. There you have the three points. I can best illustrate it by the girl who falls in love with a young tel- low. She tells her father that she is Tn love with this man. He dresses well, he is good looking, he has money, and her heart goes out to him emotionally. Her father says: Have you considered this love etchically-tha is, is this young nan moral; have you the proper concep- ion of your love from this standpoint? Does he save his money; has he a home; can he take care of you? Have you con- sidered your love for him from reason- able standpoint? No; she has not, and she marries him, and before very long comes back home in tears and says she can't live with him any longer, for he drinks and gambles, and she has learned the folly of emotional love.
 'When you let any passion get control of you, dominate you, you had best look to where 1t will lead you. That is why the law of God is necessary. The thing to do is to choose the right passion, and then there is no necessity for the law. for if you fix the human soul right then you have accomplished the main thing in life. Beware of covetousness and cul- tivate the higher and better things in life. Teach your child to do that, to put honor above money. If you don't, that child will steal, he will rob; and if you put ideals into his heart and mnd, higher principles into his living, placing these things above money, your boy will need no law. But if you hold out to him these sordid things in life, instead of insulting into his heart brotherly love, he will grind his brother until he bleeds. The crux of it all is to put God above every thing.
 CULTIVATED LOVE
 God calls upon you, inasmuch as you are going to be dominated by either one thing or another to be dominated by the right thing. All cultivated love is subject to command, while all instinctive love is not subject to command. If you are go- ing to bring your soul into a higher realm it IS culture that is essential, .pr it is these greater passions that will ,ule you. And when you get that love of God like you ought to have it. then you need no laws. You will be like the man who said that he was able to kill, steal rob, lie or get drunk whenever he wanted to. but he had the right passion, he mad Gods love in his heart. and he never wanted to do these things
 HUMOROUS REFERENCE "There was a church member who stood up in church one day and said that he thanked God for having cleansed hls soul, for having freed him of sin, and that he stood there sinless and was now unable to sin any more, and a merchant who sat near him exclaimed: He is 8 liar: he is standing there in a pair of shoes that he has never paid me for "All of the laws of God are placed as guards around us along the road of life | to bring ns into the green fields and good pastures and they are placed there for l all of us who need these guards to guide us into heaven"
 HERMAN BECK'S TALK | pr. Stuarts sermon was full of human | interest, everyday illustrations, and in every way a masterful presentation oi when he began to preach, and had been raining all morning, he had a splendid congregation.
 l Prior to pr. Stuart's sermon Herman NJ, Beck addressed the audience for four. minutes on the movement to raise s0O, ,OOC l for the consolidation of Birmingham college and Southern university, and foI- flowing his speech collection was taken | for the college endowment fund.
 "A son of Abraham stands in the pull
 pit of church of Christ" said MT Beck | in opening his address. but after all
 we are all the children of the same God
 and we should work together and CO., operate with one idea, and that for the
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