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reciprocation; or, in other worda, love always eeeka love. Hence
we reuon that the Int.elligenoe whioh created man, did ao in
order that be might love hia creature and be loved by him.
Love, then, ia both the oaaae and the object of life; and we
may safely say that it ia for this reason that, in proportion to
ita fnJJ 0 w, thoee who love and are loved, are satisfied with liv·
ing. And, indeed, this appears to have been recognised of old,
for when the Nuarenewaa questioned aa to man's moetdutifol
action, bia an1wer waa, "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, . • • and thy neighbor_ u thyself."
And this be gave them, not simply aa bia own ooocluaions, but
u the t.eachinga of the greatest minds of all the past. Another
te1la ua that a man cannot hate hia fellow and at the same time
love God; in other words, love and bate cannot dwell together
in the same heart. In following this line of thought, we feel
ufe in uauming that the object of man's creation ia love,-a
reciprocal love.
Since love is the object of man's creation, we are at once
led to consider ita attendant oonaequenuea; and aa we look
over past years we perceive that love bu alwaya been the
cause of joy. It ia true that the eel6ab deairee and hopes which
later sprang up in the heart poeaeaaed by love-benumbing or
killing it-have destroyed our joy, and reeulted in misery and
anguish, u those deairea were unfulfilled (or even when ful.
filled) and the hopea blighted; but by these very compariaona,
we know that the reeoltof a reciprocal love is joy. Here, then,
we reach two ooncluaiona,-ftrat, that love is the object of
our being; and, second, that it.a intended result is joy.
There ariaee yet another question relative to the provision
which Creative Love bu made for it.a object,-man. We are
in formed by a groat mind of the put that "the ~ bath
he (God) given into the bands of men." Thia correepondt to
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