CAPT. WALTER F, HENRY
Commanding Officer
CDR. CHARLES V. AUGUSTUS
Executive Officer
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FRED J. EGGLESTON CHARLES NICKS
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CHARITY-THE GREATEST
"There remain, then,these three, Faith
Htpe, and Charity$ but the greatest of
these is Charity,"Thus spoke St,Paul the
Apostle,. Too often people limit the vir
tue of Charity to the virtue of ALkiSGIV
ING, which is only a tangent of the over
all virtue of Charity,.
If is rather easy . to. .take a coin from
oneTs pocket* •'and donate it to the poor
or, perhaps, some charitable organizat
ion.lt is so much more difficult to-love
someone, even though jve may dislike him,
Christ never asked us to like anyone,
but He did; command us to"l<bve one .anotKi*.
er as I .have loved you," Pur obligation,
therefore, is to love'our neighbor for
the LOVE OF GOD, If we love an animal
more than ye love a -human being, let us
start examining our conscience. Animals
are not made to the image and likeness
of God, but man is. If we love tile world
more than we do our neighbor, our sense
of values of life is somewhat warped*
Christ came to save people- not the mat
erial world; in fact, in hi$ Apocalypse,
St, John says that the stern Judge will
destroy the world by fire in due time.
In the early days of Christianity,
the followers of Christ wore in invis
ible badge, but none the less real,
.just as real as the wind which we do
not see on Adak. Even the pagans re
cognized it, for they were heard to
have exclaimed: ’’See how these Christ
ians love one another.1’
Therefore, in the measure that we
love our neighbor, that is the measure
in which we shall be identified with
Shrist, for ’’he who says he loves God
and does not love his neighbor is a
liar.”
A moan offends in Charity thru the
following: calumny,detraction, murmur
ing, back-biting, slandering,tale-car- ^
Tying, . starting rumors, embellishing
upon them, or anything that would hurt
our neighbor’ in any way.
The, best sermon on Charity was del
ivered over nineteen hundred years ago
by St.Pauli"If I should speak'with the
tongues of men and angels, but do not
have Charity,I have become as^sounding
brass or a tinkling cymbal. And if I
have prophecy and know all mysteries
and knowledge, and if I have all faith
so' as to remove mountains, yet do not
have Charity, I am nothing, And if I
distribute all my goods to feed the
poor, and if I deliver my body to be
burned, yet do not have charity, it A
profits me nothing.Charity is patient, ™
is kind: Charity does not envy, is not
pretentious, is not puffed up, is not
provoked; thinks no evil, does not re
joice over wickedness, but rejoices
with.truth;bears with-all things,hopes
all things, endures all. things.”,
Ever old and ever, new l
I Rhymes of Ihe Times!
Careless
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