Show AND THE GREATEST OF THESE IS CHARITY In letters of f gold on the Temple of Apollo at Delphos was written Man Ian 1 Know Thyself All the knowledge we have of ot our beautiful learned from from the hn study r of t the i stars and the only world was way we can truly know ourselves is through the study of our fellow fellow- fellowman man And it is only by constant communion with all kinds of our fellows that a love of mankind and the principle of char char- charity ity is is developed and the more we know ourselves the Ule more we refrain from fudging judging our fellow fellows Omniscience alone can canis tell if saint be sinner or sinner saint or whether or no a man is is what he seems The elemental qualities of man are arc inherent and developed er cr modified by environment No man can know what circumstance circumstance and heredity have done to shape hape life me without that that knowledge fA nU all i 3 A a and judgment is isas as vain as it is unjust Aman A man takes with ith him to eternity the image in which he wasi was i created nor can his Ilis errors and faults however vile efface the likeness All men arc are brothers There is only one Father and that thatis thatis thatis is God and the more we wo know our fellow man the more wo we know our adorable Creator whose divine character is dis- dis dis discerned corned in all whose charity is expressed in a I boundless love for all creation Charity the Charity the brightest brighte jewel in the tho crown fD of life But what is Charity Is it in giving T No 1 Not though you rou beggar beRgar yourself in giving Is it in kind words t No not in itself though you charm the ear car with the voice of an angel Words can no more define defino Charity than they can lovo love Or friendship p It can be bo expressed only in the deeds of one who thinks no evil whose life is a comfort to all who come within who lives on a plane piano of universal brotherhood broad enough to embrace all mankind whose whoso humility enables him I to realize that the greater his own O faults and failings the nearer is is his kinship to him who steps from honors honor's path or any of the outcasts from tho the pale society has drawn rawn drawn who does no evil and never forgets that it is human to err always true of speech and ever eyer tr trying ing to do to others as he would have them to do him This is Charity Justice Fidelity expressed in a life of brotherly Love the Love the only wor word that defines Go God |