The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-06-05

humanity. and a failing that touches
I men and women alike. is the failure of
a man or woman to be charitable. There
is so much OF good In the worst Of US
and SO much bad in the best Of us. that
It i'll behooves any Of US to talk about
the rest of US There has been mann
man and woman that has been pillorted
upon the cross Of public opinion There
| have been men and women who have
| been crucifed upon the cross Of gossip
by those who use their tongues as
swords instead Of using them as healing
! influences You know we like TO talk
and sometimes we ike 70 talk about the
other fellow. Have YOU heard what
Mrs. So and So did last week? Have you
! heard what John Smith did when h
went TO Chicago last week. Over the
back yard fence and over the counter.
we start the snowfall rolling until IL
/ becomes an avalanche which brushes
and destroyes. Charity places the
mantle over our faults and over our
frailties. Charity finds the good-cov-
ers up the evil. I wonder so many times
! why bank the bier of our departed
/ friends with flowers. when during the
life there was never flower bestowed
Better 20 give the flowers to the living
than to those who have gone. Oh we
need to put into Lies Violin the string
of charity that uses the mantle and
hides the faults and reforms the frau-
ties.
Then not only charity and not only
sympathy. but We need to put into that
violin the string Of love. You know
that We men never fully comprehend
the meaning of that word. We think Of
strength. power. virility-we think of
those things that move the world-but
when Il comes 70 the influence that re-
deems and purfles. the woman has
larger and q more beautiful conception.
! recall story they tell that on one oc-
casion the Great Creator sent an angel
20 earth 10 gather the most beautiful
thing she could find. After searching
the wide world over she finally gathered
three things-a beautiful flower,
baby's smile and q mothers love-and
started back. When she arrived. the
flower had faded the baby's smile had
vanished but just as beautiful as the
moment she had gathered it was the
mothers love. I-say. women understand
that word better than men. Love is
( service, and where better is IL exempli-
fed? 1t makes home out Of house and
builds not only for today or tomorrow
bat for eternity. Love is service; love
Is sacrifice; love is the doing Of those
things which help and sweeten the lives
Of those about US as we go about our
I daily business. ------ And so in our fra
Sernities. unless VIC can grasp in q real
and vital way the meaning Of this word
aur fraternities are of litrIe avail Love
Is the going out Of the way TO aid one
l.
/ our secrets within our breasts. It is
! the STOPPING down and lifting up. Love.
1t is the giving and spending Of our
selves that somebody else might live.
You remember the scene i'm the New
Testament scriptures. where the men
were together about the woman on the
Z seashore and were ready to hurI the
boulders upon the broken body because
she had sinned. and the Master came
and He spoke to the Pharisees i'm this
wise: He that is without sin. lct him
cast tho first stone and He finished his
talk and commenced to write in the
sands Of the sea. and by and by he look
ed around and that crowd of hypocrites
had vanished and there knolt at his feet
just the woman And so tenderly He
reached down and lifted her up and
He said Have none Of these condemned
/ thee and she answered No He said
| Neither do / condemn thee. go and sin
no more OH. the value and utility and
the usefulness Of love. Let US put it
into our Violin and let US play all the
wonderful music that charms the world
and drives discord into oblivion
Just one other string I would men
ton. which I think that every man and
woman must put into this Violin if he
or she IS to really play beautifully. and
that j. the string of patriotism Pa
triotisn-it can be exercised BY women
just as fully, just as really as II can be