The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1925-02-26
SMILIN' THRU
BY GEE SEE
WHAT IS LOVE? MINISTER
QUITS TO FIND THE ANSWER

Ter to travel and study ito make
modest contribution toward the
Christianizing of marriage and the
nome," according to his statement.
WHAT is LOVE?
"What is lover" the world has
asked
Since Adam and Eve raised Cain.
And still they raise the question,
But raise it all in vain.
Some say love is but dream;
While others say it's madness.
And fools proclaim it poison,
But some say it is gladness.
Some say that it's an itching
OF the heart that can't be scratch
ed;
While others call it heaven
Which no other joy has matched.
Thus silly, foolish mortals
Seek to bind it by rule
Of reconstructed maxims
To make standard tool
Love is all things to all men,
And it's vastness knows no bound;
Whatever we seek in love,
Unerringly THAT is found!
The minister who gave up the
ministry in order to find out what
love is reminds us of Maeterlinck's
play, "The Bluebird."
Those who have read the book or
seen the play will recall that it
tells the story of two children who
left their home in fantastic search
thru this world and the spirit realms
searching for the Bluebird of Hap
piness.
After disappointed wanderings
they return to find that the Gagged
bird in their simple home was the
Bluebird of Happiness. When they
heard again it's lifting song of
blithsomeness they were made to
know how futile their search had
been.
And when this deluded preacher
has finished his Extended tour to
distant lands" Gas he put it, let
us hope that he may stumble on
that comforting passage in the Bible
that says, "GOD is LOVE-"
Judging by the "hell-fire, brim-
stone and damnation" preaching and
acting of the churches today one
would think that most of the preach
ers had lost sight of that simple
doctrine-"GOD is LOVE-"
NFNNFf
Judging by the vindictive atti-
tude of many preachers and their
followers we are led to believe that
they would be bitterly disappointed
If God does have little love for
the "benighted sinners" they hate so
intensely.
Can you imagine how one of these
"holier than thou" preachers would
feel when he gets to heaven, (if he
gets thereD and bumps into man
he had assigned to an eternal roast
ing on the flames of hell?
Some of the best men who ever
lived never belonged to a church.
If GOD is love-" do you think He
will consign those men to boil in
oil and sizzle in fiery birthstone?
What bitterness would be greater
than for that preacher to meet that
man strolling down the golden
streets, (where they don't have to
pay taxes to keep the paving in
repair.)
The preachers 81 told you so"
would fall rather fiat, I'm thinking.
The following verses are the fin
est expression on the sub iect | have
ever read. If you are just in your
attitude, and if you keep scrap
book cut this out and keep it.
A HOPELESS CASE.
He was just common sinner,
But he'd buy tramp a dinner,
An he'd sort o. try to put him on
his feet;
An Teller might be needy,
An his raiment worn an seedy.
Yet he'd stop and visit with him in
the street.
He made no ado about it
Wouldn't brag around ner shout it.
Yet he did lot to help his fellermen;
When he'd find fallen brother.
In some quiet way or other,
He would make him organize him
self again.
He had money an he spent it,
Err he give away or lent it;
Seemed ez if the more he lost the
more he got.
Made all sorts of big donations,
Helped support his poor relations.
An he bought an orphan school a
house an lot.
Never heard o. him a-shoutin'
Ner a-goin' round a-spoutin'
Bout the everlastin' wickedness o.
things: