Show LOVE THE lOVE THE FORGE FORCE THAT m SAVES By Livy S. S Richard Ie Were I to live H again a ripe minister minister min ister r once said raid I should put the soft toft pedal on faith and hope and open wide the tho keyboard on love lore An odd thing to quote now jou you say a when half hall the world orld has been beon turned by bv bate hato into a shambles But tho the condition of the times simply confirms tho the ministers minister's lter's wb wisdom om It is hato bate that destroys humanity Itis It Itis Itis is love lo i that at saves it it Imagine tho difference it would make makein in Europe tod today if iC during the past half century Slav Sla had been tau taught ht to love lote Touton and Touton taught ht to tu love lo Latin LaUn and aDd Slav Taught tho the truth that men arc are brothers brothen though they differ in color and creed Taught that the differences dif dlf however ho conspicuous really are fewer and of less importance than the tho points of resemblance and of ot kin kin- ship It may way be easier to teach folks to hate on one onn another than to love 10 ono one an other I suppose it Is I for tor throughout history hats bate nas as often had the inside track k Yet it is hate of oC which we e feel ashamed when its wild pass passion on has died while whilo loves love's blessing is eternal So I cannot help but think that if as much zeal were ero put into cultivating love as is put into fanning tho the he bell hell 1 flames of ot hate mankind would in time put war aa away It is 5 pretty much a matter of ideals I If we wc choose as our ideal to be power powerful powerful ful at any cost even een at tho the cost COlt of mens men's blood and women's tears to be berich berich rich b by crushing others to be strong a atthe at atthe the cost of tho the weak wo must cs expect a harvest banest of oi hate bate with ith human society always in tho hazard of or explosions But because that has thus far chiefly I 1 been mankind's accepted ideal does not notI I prove that a better one is impossible Spite of tho the man many things that dont don't look ri right I am ant an optimist I believe behove that toda today is better than yesterday and that tomorrow will be than toda today To ribo think otherwise is fl to deny not noton on only man many clear evidences of history but also the capacity of the race raco to profit by bt experience Even the horror of this most horrible of wars does not shako mv my faith in humanity It is a last great friction democracy and fou feudal al ism lam and not a proof that we e cannot learn But it is also a challen challenge e. e A challenge to all who believe with our minister friend that the tho keyboard should be opened wide to love The gospel of J Jesus has not comp como down in glory glor through h tho the troubled ages to perish on twentieth c century battle fier fields s. s The greater tho the din of oC barbaric hate hato and slaughter the greater tho the call can for forI I tho the swelling anthem of ot love and andI brotherhood I |