The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1918-12-12
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thing on earth. The beginning an,
! CO. tinuation Of life itself draws it
existence and support fresn love It il
the greatest power e1pfulness, th.
most peaceful ineeative to kind a.
I noble deeds, lighting up the dark kea1et
places Of 1ifets often saddenel wa,
and brin ngfng hope and gladness to the
/ heart weary of it's burden and crush
ed before. the desolation OF. the fl1
tnre. AS potent condition of life Il
IS ABOVE all else and includes al
| things that are pure, ggeod and true.
Love, the tenderest and at4the same
time the strongest known passion
possesses the most vitally controllfnR
influence antefing into the lives d
human beings shaping and contraall@
their thoughts and actions WHAT.
ever good is voluntarily done Or
one is prompted by love of ,some ls
or for another, or the pleasuse to be
gained from 1t for ones self or for
| some one else.
We speak of duties and our re-
sponsibilities toward them. Duties
without love to meet them may be-
come burden. Love gives pleasure
to service and whatever is a pleasure
is never a burden.
Love possesses q refining influence
over human thought and action puri-
tying the one of low sensuality and
gross selfishness. the other of coarse
ness and offensive rudeness.
1t is the fmmutable law Of mind to
become like or take of the same ma
ture Of what it loves. This action of
mind so permeates and fills the
thought with the pleasing attributes of
the object loved that we are drawn
by the force of attraction and grow
in character to be like it,
Love begets love-, not always that
selfish kind that seeks only its own
gratSf1ce ton, but love that considers
the pest interest and welfare of the
one loved
Christ said, 81 will draw all men
unto me-" How? BY love and the
great blessings going out from it. And
what wonderful impel1ing love toI
make it possible for one to lay down
his life for another! And He made
the great sacrifice and gave Himself
compelled by this wonderful love for
sinful suffering humanity.
And through the working of the law
Of love man is transformed into His
likeness and by the power Of love he
may draw others to him. We becomei
like Him only as we learn to love
Him and by reflection transmit the
same love, to others. Avarice and
selfish desire are forgotten in the pure
love and generous thought OF others !
as we learn to love our neighbor as I
We love yourselves.
God is love-" Infinite love is the !
divine principle, implanted in the llt-|
man heart" In Him we live, TnoYe1
and have our being Man may sin and
fall to the depths. OF moral degrada-S
fion, but SO long as one spark of love I
remains in his heart there is yet this |
saving and life-existing condition be-
tween God and man., between the
Creator and His created. To cease to
love would be to cease to live. We
love because the element of love7is in :
US and without love man could have
no connection with God.
There is this love in every human
heart In many it may indeed seem
small, even but spark, yet capable
Of flaming into the full power, of loves
in response to some awak-
enlng touch. 1t may be little shown,
almost Invisible except perhaps at
best it may flare out under the slim
ulant of some sudden impulse to as
quickly die away as the exciting
cause which gave it being becomes4
and the fevered flow of
an outburst feeling subsidies to it's nor
NAL condition, or rather the last state
Of it's divine nature. But mere i'm
pulse is not love. ~
No person can express love which
he does not possess. AS the beauty
IF color is unknown and undescriba-
ole to the blind or the harmony of
sound to the deaf so the full mean
ng of love can have no reality to
he heart dead to it's conscious pres
9nce.
Everybody loves sOmething-somel
pleasing attribute in something else
md to the object Of his love every
,ne is inevitably drawn. Whatever
,ne loves, whatever pleases us, that
We naturally seek. To possess it and
i've within it's stimulating atmos-t
)here and environments in the warmth
md abundance of it's presence, is the
Of the hearts desire in
though it be.
Loves constancy is determined byA
is character and the nature of the at
ribute loved and the love given, some
10 permanency of character. -,.. |
The youth and maiden in the roseatel
lawn of adolescence or the golden
lush of young manhood and young
sometimes may think no
me else knows what love is or ever
owed like them. But often love proves
,ut a temporary fancy, fieeting pas
ion which though in the first sweet
moments of its ardency seems SO real
md Interchangeable, dies away before .
he f1ck1e and passing changes OF
ime; and a new love, stronger and
qore endurab1e, is found to take the
lace of the old.