So I go to the long adventure, lifting
My face to the far, mysterious goals,
To the last assize, to the final sifting
Of gods and stars and souls. (Text.)
—The Cosmopolitan.
(1900)
LOVE A HARMONIZER Life's harmony must have its discords; but, as in music, pathos is tempered into pleasure by the pervading spirit of beauty, so are all life's sounds tempered by love.—George Henry Lewes.
(1901)
Love, A Mother's—See Mother-love. LOVE, A PROOF OF We can not permanently benefit men until we are willing to get near to them. The Christian method of charity is illustrated in this incident in the career of a notable promoter of London city missions: Love is not fastidious; her hands are as busy as her heart is full. He (Frank Crossley) found five dirty youngsters (their father a sot, their mother in the sick ward), and he burned their old clothes and clad them in clean ones, and then sent them to play with his own boy! Is it any wonder if both their father and mother were won?—Pierson, "The Miracles of Missions."
(1902)
LOVE AND LAW As to which was the first and greatest command, the rabbis were in grave doubt. Most agreed that the smallest and least command was the one concerning the bird's nest, recorded in Deut. 22:6, 7; but when it came to the first and greatest, they were in doubt, whether it was the one respecting the observance of the Sabbath, or the law concerning circumcision, or the one concerning fringes and phylacteries, while still others contended that the omission of ceremonial ablutions was as bad as homicide. With these distinctions and differences and absurd hair-splittings in mind the young lawyer addrest the master with the question, "Which is the first commandment of all?" What a majestic answer was that which he received! Nothing in it about fringes and phylacteries, nothing about ceremonial washings, nothing about attitudes and genuflections; but the grand answer which will abide for all time to come: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength, this is the first commandment." This answer goes to the heart of the matter. Eighteen hundred years have not suggested any improvement or addition to the great answer, nor will eighteen hundred years to come, because it embraces all other answers and is the sum total of morality.—The Golden Rule.
(1903)
LOVE AND TIME
Love that lasts is the power that binds heart to heart with the indissoluble bonds. Such love knows no limit of time. Dr. Van Dyke says:
Time is
Too slow for those who wait,
Too swift for those who fear,
Too long for those who grieve,
Too short for those who rejoice;
But for those who love
Time is not!
—Church Advocate.
(1904)
Love as a Converting Power—See Persecution and Prayer.
LOVE AS A SIDING
With our differing hereditary traits, educations,
experience, and ways of living and
thinking, it is quite impossible that there
should not be collisions with those with
whom we are living or working. We are
like a number of trains trying to go in different
directions on the same track. Congestions
are certain to come, but a congestion
need not degenerate into a collision and a
wreck if we will remember that there are
plenty of sidings. Now a "siding" is a sort
of abbreviated second track whereby trains
going in opposite directions may pass each
other in safety. In material railways they
bear various names; on the invisible pathway
of life they are all called love. Sometimes
they are nicknamed forbearance, tolerance,
patience, or common sense; but these
are all translations of the same thing. So in
case of danger, remember the sidings.—James
M. Stifler, "The Fighting Saint."
(1905)
Love Compared—See Christ's Love.
LOVE, CONQUESTS OF
There is a story told
In Eastern tents, when autumn nights grow cold
And round the fire the Mongol shepherds sit
With grave responses listening unto it:
