The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1919-02-20
DEAREST JOYS, SWEETEST
HAPPlNERS In LOVE
LOVE MAY SOFTEN THE POIc-
NANCY OF SORROWS BIT
TER PRESENCE,
(By w A. Gattis Foster.)
Chapter IL.

tion-Io Love our NeIghbor Is Our
Great Moral Cuty-Who Is Our
Neighbor in the Biblical Sense?
individuals differ in many wavs
one from another. Among all the mil.
lions OF human beings living on this
Globe today there are no two inst
alike in form or feature. No matter
how close the resemblance of one to
another or similar in their general
appearance, there will be, to the accu-
rately discriminating observer. some
distinctive dissimilarity that makes it
possible to distinguish one from an
other.
And this individual unlikeness ex-
lists in no less degree in mental than
in material personality, though pos
siblv not always SO plainly obvious in
its outward manifestations
From like causes all people do not
possess the same capacity to recog-
niZe and appreciate the higher nature
and truer worth of love or to express
it in word Or deed that its impression
may be effectively stamped for good
upon the lives and character of others.
The evolution of the human race
does not show the same advanced
stage Of individual development.
Many there are who have not yet risen
above the primitive existence of ma
teriality and its lustful pleasures and
still dwell in the low valley of an I'M
awakened consciousness and unreal
lied possession of lifes higher gifts.
Love for them is but a sensual de-
light and happy convenience, AS it
brings to them some pleasing and de-
sirable thing or condition.
Each person can give out only that
which is in him. No one can express
love or any other condition of life,
or character he does not possess.
1t does not take good person, or
an honest one. to love that which
peases him. To be drawn to and to
have something that is pleasing and
attractive, is the law of the human
affections. The vital question is not
that we love, for all people love, but
rather what we love. This is the ques-
ton that should more grealv concern
every person who would love truly
and right, for in it's decision these is
for every one all the difference be-
tween happiness and sorrow, between
conscious joy Of he1pfulness extended
to some one and the EegIGt Of neglect2
sed duties; d cen generosity a4d SELF.
ishness, Kindness and cruelty.
In love there is found the dearest
joys and sweetest happiness OF earth
there may come also to the heart that
loves the keenest sorrow and most
crushing bereavement We become
in thought a part of what we love and
the things of this world upon which
we have centered our affections. are
often Of short duration and are given
to US but a moment to keep and the
enjoyment of these heart-treasured
possessions may soon be followed by
the hitter sorrow Of their loss.
But the poignancy Of sorrows bit
ter presence may be sOftened by loves
sweet memory of joyous and happy
past. Love still lives and the dreary
desclated future is faced with
stronger hope and greater courage as
it's sweet effulgence falls gently about
our weary footsteps.
Our human love is a blessing or
curse according to what we love and
as we make use of it. It has dual
power to bring one into the glorious
sunshine of happiness or cast into the
black shadows of sorrow and regret
Il carries the soul to a haven OF rest
I'D aa!ioht to dwell forever with the
good and the blessed, or casts 1T into
d world of remorse and suffering to be
the companion of devils and the lost.
Where love abounds contentious
demands and acrimonious chickering's
find no place in the family life to mar
the peace and harmony Of the nome
circle nor the pleasant relationship Oh
neghbOrs and community members
when otherwise self-interest and diff
ference of opinions might have terml-
mated in destructive antagonlsm-
Love is trustful and it's faith un.
bounded in the unlimited devotion OF
the object into which it gives 1tseh
in unstinted measure, but It's jealousy
when once aroused is hard to appease'
Love looks for and expects the evl-
dence of it's existence and is quick to
discern the difference between sham
and sincerity. Love is not always
blind. ACTIONS speak louder than
words" is a common saying, and on
general principles is a true one. Wnen
deeds are needed words cannot SUI
fee no matter how softly ana gehIy
spoken. It is sometimes so easy TO d1
low the less difficult part to sllppialt
the other as convenience and lnc1na-
ton may dictate. But this is not
loves way. Word and deed must ea''A
FL it's own place and neither can &c
comDlish the mission Of the other out
each supplements and gives emphasis
to the other.
pure 1--we always SO gentAe' CenuoA'
considerable and generous, moVlng
men and women to kind ard hel21ul
acts NAV be easily perverted and lost
among the carnol things Of this Ire
by grgsping, selfish greed after tne
material things of earth and the pleas
ures to he derived from them srnoth-
ering out and displacing the higher
humane feelings of COMPASSION and
sympathetic concern in the broad III,
terest of humanity and the indivldual
that so clearly distinguishes the nople
and generous from the craven ana
selfish
Love does not always mean affec-
ton. To love our neighbor as we love
ourselves, is the great moral duty de-
clared by divine teaching and wh1cn