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The Empire of Love By: W. J. (William James) Dawson (1854-1928) |
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By W. J. DAWSON New York Chicago Toronto Fleming H. Revell Company London and Edinburgh
Copyright, 1907, by FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY
New York: 158 Fifth Avenue
Chicago: 80 Wabash Avenue
Toronto: 25 Richmond Street, W.
London: 21 Paternoster Square
Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street
To
M. M. D., who, during the last two years
of our residence in London,
practiced the teachings of this book
before I taught them: proving daily
in her compassionate toil for others
the divine efficacy of simple love
to redeem the lives,
that were most estranged from virtue,
and most lost to hope.
Love feels no burden, regards not labours, would willingly do more than
it is able, pleads not impossibility, because it feels that it can and
may do all things. THOMAS À KEMPIS.
CONTENTS
I. THE GENIUS TO BE LOVED
II. WHAT IS CHRISTIANITY?
III. THE JUSTICE OF JESUS
IV. LOVE IS JUSTICE
V. LOVE AND FORGIVENESS
VI. THE PRACTICE OF LOVE
VII. LOVE AND JUDGMENT
VIII. THE WISDOM OF THE SIMPLE
IX. THE REVELATIONS OF GRIEF
X. A CONFESSION
XI. A LOVER OF MEN
XII. THE LAW OF COMPASSION
XIII. THE EMPIRE OF LOVE
XIV. THE BUILDERS OF THE EMPIRE
THE GENIUS TO BE LOVED WHY THEY LOVED HIM So kindly was His love to us,
(We had not heard of love before),
That all our life grew glorious
When He had halted at our door. So meekly did He love us men,
Though blind we were with shameful sin,
He touched our eyes with tears, and then
Led God's tall angels flaming in. He dwelt with us a little space,
As mothers do in childhood's years,
And still we can discern His face
Wherever Joy or Love appears. He made our virtues all His own,
And lent them grace we could not give,
And now our world seems His alone,
And while we live He seems to live. He took our sorrows and our pain,
And hid their torture in His breast,
Till we received them back again
To find on each His grief impressed. He clasped our children in His arms,
And showed us where their beauty shone,
He took from us our gray alarms,
And put Death's icy armour on. So gentle were His ways with us,
That crippled souls had ceased to sigh,
On them He laid His hands, and thus
They gloried at His passing by. Without reproof or word of blame,
As mothers do in childhood's years,
He kissed our lips in spite of shame,
And stayed the passage of our tears. So tender was His love to us,
(We had not learned to love before),
That we grew like to Him, and thus
Men sought His grace in us once more. CONINGSBY WILLIAM DAWSON. I THE GENIUS TO BE LOVED In the history of the last two thousand years there is but one Person
who has been, and is supremely loved. Many have been loved by
individuals, by groups of persons, or by communities; some have
received the pliant idolatries of nations, such as heroes and national
deliverers; but in every instance the sense of love thus excited has
been intimately associated with some triumph of intellect, or some
resounding achievement in the world of action. In this there is
nothing unusual, for man is a natural worshipper of heroes. But in
Jesus Christ we discover something very different; He possessed the
genius to be loved in so transcendent a degree that it appears His sole
genius. Jesus is loved not for anything that He taught, nor yet wholly for
anything that He did, although His actions culminate in the divine
fascination of the Cross, but rather for what He was in Himself. His
very name provokes in countless millions a reverent tenderness of
emotion usually associated only with the most sacred and intimate of
human relationships. He is loved with a certain purity and intensity
of passion that transcends even the most intimate expressions of human
emotion. The curious thing is that He Himself anticipated this kind of
love as His eternal heritage with men... Continue reading book >>
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