The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1922-06-22

back to the city, which L reached as the
church bells were tolling. | went to
church that Sunday NOR ming, and have
4 been going ever since. That was many
/ years ago. But to that habit so early
/ learned | attribute much of that which
| affords me the most lasting satisfaction
/ in my success.
At the morning service of the Federat-
ed Church, last Sunday Rev. w. F. Sker-
] rye, spoke to the visiting members of
| Waldo and Aurora Rebekah Lodges, as
follows:
"The motto of your honorable order
consists of three words, Friendship,
Love, and Truth" 1t is of these words.
| indicating three persistent needs of men,
that I wish to speak. Man is a social
being. He needs the com panIonship of
his kind; he needs those with whom he
may share his thoughts, his feelings, and
his fortunes. In just as far as a man
strives to reach worthy goal, to serve a
high purpose, he feels the pressure of
doubts and fears. 1t sometimes seems
that no one cares whether he sinks or
swims. At times a man needs a friend
with whom he may share his cares and
apprehensions. Such friend is temple
to which he retreats from the confusion
and glare of the world, to the GOODNESS,
and shade, and security of which he
stands in need. There, in meditation and
communion with the heart of his friend,
he RECEIVERS courage and hope, and goes
back to his tasks unafraid. Truth is a
stern master, and most trustworthy SER
want. 1t can never be bought at bargain
prices 1t demands always painstakine
care, self-denying application, ana much
humility from him who would posses it;
and these we do not readily give. We
too often prefer to think, suppose, and
ina gine. The result is that we are all
poorer in mind, body, and spirit than we
should be. This country of ours is torn
and troubled with class strife. No one
man can know all that our labor wars
have cost, since the property loss, in
whatever form, is the smaller part of the
whole. The ruined homes and broken
hopes, the assasinated regulations and
murdered lives, the bitterness and blind
ness, these cost beyond human powers of
computa ton; and these evil conditions
continue to exist because there are not
yet enough men who care to know the
truth. Legal justice is not enough. A
more generous conception is demanded.
To pay fair wages will not suffice. Every
man owes every other man more than
money. Whatever mems other debts
may be, they owe one another patient
goodwill, the manifestation of deep and
genuine feeling of brotherhood, Great
hearted justice and a self -surrendering
kindness must be rated of more worth
than money before our wounds can heal.
But these things belong to truth. In our
heart of hearts we know that the diviner
way is the better way; we know that our
thoughts must coincide with Gods
thoughts before peace and understanding
come. Only as we are more and more
willing to submit ourselves to the de-
mands of this larger conception of truth,
can we hope to have part in the healing
and redemptive work so urgently needed
| now. 1t is not words that will serve, but
human lives. Drummond said that love
| is the greatest thing in the world Paul
said that, though he knew all things, and
! gave all to the poor, and could speak
with the tongue of men and of angels, and
had not love, it profited him nothing.
| Where great love is there is little fear.
Only while God is near and larger than
man, do we cease to fear man. o ie with
God is a majority only with those who
know how to find God in the divine way
Love is the unfalling light. Every othe
fancied advantage may be blessing o
bane There is no telling, since the on
! decisive factor is the individual heart
+ The more an evil-minded man knows, tn,
more evil is he capable of. Germany wa
probably the most intellectual natio n in
the world in 1914 But because the gov
erning heart of Germ any was animated
by greed of power, her greater knowledge
was ut her surer rum. Only whel
riches and knowledge and power are mad
| the servants of love to God and man ar
| they assured blessings. There is no othe
| sure and unfallng light on human path