Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1923-02-16

most beautiful su ect there is.
without love this world would soon
cease to exist and the people perish.
do not want you to think l know
all there is to know about this sub
iect for such a thing is impossible.
Love can only be defined by SYM
postum of many minds. l have taken
the thoughts of many women and men
on this subject and wove the fabric
of this lecture. First let US define
love.
Love. sire, seeks nothing that kings
can bestow,
For love is the king of all things here
below.
Love makes the monarch bashful as
boy;
Love is in all things-all things are
in love;
Love is the earth, the sea, the sky
above;
Love is the bird. the blossom, the
wind;
Love has a million eyes-yet love is
blind;
Love is the aim of every human soul,
And he who hath not loved, hath
missed lifes goal.
have seen the sun rise in the east
and set in the west and between the
the
babe born into the world; 1 have seen
the smiling, laughing faces of inno-
cnt childhood at play and at school;
have seen the happy and beautiful
bride married amid the pomp and
splendor lavished by the wealthy up
ON such events; I have seen the poor
and hungry begging for enough to
eat to keep body and soul together
have seen death enter happy home
and take away a loved one; I have
seen the world weary end their life
and have seen the outcast of society
take the life of another; I have seen
all the flotson and jetsom of the man
kind on this mundane sphere in the
whirlpool of life cast hither and thith-
er, yea all this I have seen between
the rising of the sun in the east and
the setting of the sun in the west,
and yet, it is simply life.
I have seen the lovelight shine out
from a mothers eyes at her tiny, help
less babe; 1 have seen the lovelight
shine from out the eyes of young
maiden when he greeted her; have
seen the lovelight shine from out the
eyes of the wife as her husband re-
turned home at night from his daily
battle for the sustenance of life. bread;
1 have seen the lovelight shine out
from the eyes of an old couple who
have passed the allotted time on this
earth and are living on borrowed |
time; 1 have felt the tiny, warm, |
moist hands of the babe clasped on |
my face and heard its gurgle of de-
light as l smiled down into its trust
ing, innocent face and have felt its
trustful eyes reach clear down to the
heartstrings and gently but firmly
pull them into action.
have seen life and have seen
death and yet it all was life. l have
experienced the joy and happiness
and thrill Of wedding day: l have
experienced the JOY and happiness Of
children and ] have experienced the
sorrow and sadness Of the invasion
OF death; ! have experienced the
friendship Of noble men and women
and ! have experienced the bitter en-
NIFTY Of enemies have been wined
and dinee, ! have Travelled and / have
seen the beautiful scenery 1 have
sinped and ! have hele communion
With my God J have been IA robust
health and haye gone down into
the valley OF the shadow Of death Ia
illness, ! baye been happy ana ! have
been so4owfu hpt hays lived
And onf " fhe fuilneas thereof ! am
ensbled 40 speak lfile about love.
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