Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

1918 BRIEFS 559
fore their mind's eye so much that is new that they dimly
see, and anticipate.
lt is in this anticipating of the ever
new, and in the consciousness of growing toward it, that
we find the spring of thedesire for an endless life.
The one looking upon this present world as being but a
school and' self as being yet immature, not having yet
reached their ultimate growth, and perceiving somewhat
of the larger, truer, nobler phases of life that are not yet
attained because of that lack of development in self, finds
arising from within the desire for time to grow, to develop
into that nobler manhood or womanhood that can
grasp and utilize the opportunities life offers in that
more developed state that will bring that satisfaction in
living that will make them say, "l_would live alway."
IT is well to know the law, because we can then view
with understanding those things that otherwise would be
meaningless to us. Likewise we can then, in a measure
at least, act so as to modify of not completely change results.
For we can act knowing the result of the action.
We read: "AIl they that take to the sword shall perish
with the sword.f' Also: "He that killeth with the sword
must be killed with the sword." This voices a law ordained
by Divine Justice.
reasoning that "no
own weapons of offense."
And also this law leads to the
man can defend himself against his
In other words, the one who
speaks harsh words suffers most keenly from harsh
words, he that deceives others is the most easily deceived.
The thief suffers most keenly from loss by theft, the talebearer
from tale-bearing, the critic from criticism.
it is our own weapons of offense that wound us
Thus
most
sorely, and we cannot successfully defend ourselves
against them.