Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-10-08

! oLi ain u petty annoy dHC6St LuE4
it needs to be strengthened.
How about envy? Envy is hate
under another name. 1t is full Of
! deceit, malignacy, murder. In
/ genuine heart love, there is no
envy, and if you have a single seed
/ Of envy in your makeup, it is only
question of time and the right
kind of weather until that seed will
give you a big crop of things that
you wish you did not have. If you
have any envy, you have too much.
| Remember, Love envieth not" If
single stone of envy goes into
the building Of 1t, your bridge will
fall down. You never can get to
heaven over that bridge.
Love vaunteth not itself, is not
puffed up-tt is not chesty, it is
not heavy. 1t has no bad streaks
that you need to putty up or cover
them over with whiteWash. Love
never brags about what it has done
or what it intends to do. 1t does
not look through its fingers when
somebody is praying. Love vaunt-
eth not itself and is not veneered.
1t is not grained timber; love IS
solid mahogany, all the way
through. 1t rings no bells and il
blows no whistles when it gives
away mOney-nO, sir! 1t does not
put its thumbs in the armholes OF
its vest and strut around as though
it were the only pebble on the
beach. 1t does not boast about the
battles it has fought. 1t does not
scratch the scars to make them
bigger and make you think it has
suffered a great deal.
Love vaunteth not, seeketh not
her own. Love is never afraid to
wait for the second table, and if
love cant have white meat, it will
take the next best, take the black.
1t has no fear that somebody Will
pass it by and not speak to it. 1t
is self-forgetfuI, but it never for
gets those who need something it is
able to give.
1t is not provoked. The patience
of love never wears out. 1t is pro-
vocation proof. 1t does not break
the heart of love to have a clothes
line fall, and it doesn't put love in
the cellar to keep the dinner wait
ing. And, if you had love and were
sighted unintentionally, overlook
ed in a social matter, it wouldn't
send you gossiping around the
neighbOrhood TO tell them how YOU
have been sighted.
1t wouldn't make love miserable
all the day if somebody happened
to step on the ruffle of its dress and
tear it a little bit or stick the UNI
brella in its hair.
Why, love will make the house
ring with its shouts OF joy and
laughter. Love, my friends. won't
kill the joy of the household when
things happen to go wrong in the
sewing society, or in the literary
club. Love will take things as they
come, and be thankful that they
come.
No Evil in Love.
Love thinketh no evil. Love is /
not suspicious of everybody that +. /
meets, and love, my friends, has a |
hope that good will come out of !
everything and everybody. It does /
not find devilish and supreme de- /
light in picking people to pieces. I
No. sir. love does not say, Just as
l expected" when somebody is eX-
posed in doing wrong. Love does
not run around the neighborhood /
and say, ''Oh, have you heard the /
latest? Well, l am sorry for Mrs. I
So-and-so." You are an old liar.
Love that is real does not spend |
itself and its time looking for /
black spots in other peoples char
acters. Not at ALL
Love is not a Pathfinder. a
in the world And
those that are the happiest in the
world are not those that find the
most fault. You will find that just
the opposite. Finding fault is one
Of the first occasions for back-slid-
ing, and when you begin to find
fault, you can bet 1t won't be long
until you back-slide.
If the devil can only touch your
tongue with the end of his finger,
he will have his halter on you in a
little while. or his ring in your
lose-yes, sir! Evil speaking IS
an evidence of evil-thinking. AS d
nan thinketh in his heart, so f.
ne; and 1 know the thoughts Of
your heart by what you speak with
-our lips. So, evil speaking is an
evidence OF evil
thinking.
Love thinketh no evil, rejoiceth
lot in iniquity. You can turn the
pockets of love wrong-side out, and !
yOu will not find one dollar Of the
IeyiTs money in the purse. Love
Won't profit by any kind of wrong.
1ove will have nothing to do with
that the Ten Command
nents or the Sermon on the Mount
ire against-neveri
Love owns no property that is I
ub-let for the DEVILS use Love
WINS no stock in any corporation
hat the serpent has got his coils
about. Love does not own /
took in a brewery or a distillery.
Love does not rent its property for {
. house Of ill-fame or a saloon. '
lave Just as much respect for the
aloon-keeper as I have for any |
nan that will rent his property for /
saloon-I don't care who owns {
he property. I
Love rejoiceth not in iniquity- :
hat is the thing! And love never {
,rinds down the poor. Love never !
authorizes anybody to sell whisky !
With your consent-never, never, I
ever in the universe. {
Love never rushes forth for the I
ce-cream freezer or the oyster can I
7hen the preacher announces that
re need little extra money in the {
objection Love stands for every {
hing that has the mark of the best I