Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1917 — LOVE AS A GUEST. [ARTICLE]

LOVE AS A GUEST.

With Him Within .There Is No Room Anger, Etc. Shall we not choose Love, the beautiful guest, to come and live with us, and say to Envy and Anger and EvilSpeaking, and Impatience, that we have no room for them? For Love will not live with bad companions, and if we think unkind thoughts, and say unkind words of others, she will not stay with us. And we must be ready to listen when she speaks to us. If we are tempted to be angry or impatient, Love will say: “Stop! Remember! Think how patient God is with you, though you often do wrong.” Reading the Bible, and praying, and going to church, and giving money to the poor, are all good, if we have love also, but they are worth little without love. “Love is the fulfilling of the law.” Paul and James and John all wrote a great deal of this love, but perhaps John said the most beautiful thing of all when he wrote: “God is love, and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.”— Emily Huntington Miller.