If Mrs. Stanford was murdered the
criminal has gone free because no de?
tective can find a motive to trace out
the murderer. Every crime, ns n rule,
has a motive. What motive have you
for the sinful hatred against your
neighbor? Because you hate him do
you think he will be Inspired by love
to return to you fourfold of what ho
took? Because you hate him do yon
think he will be influenced to be a
better nnd a nobler character? Because
you hate him do you think the old
booda of affection wilt be knitted to?
gether again? Oh, no. Continued
wrath may destroy, but it never yet
purified. Dr. Adams once said, "The
angry man is like a ship sent to sea
which hath a devil for a pilot!" I say
in our dealings with a brother, a bitter,
vindictive, hating mau is like a pirate
sailing under a black flag, whose only
purpose is to wreck and not to help or
rescue or save.
We should renounce all our hatreds
and bitternesses and animosities to?
ward our brothers because these ha?
treds are cursing our spiritual lives as
well as theirs. You can denounce your
neighbor for doing wrong. You can
hate him or despise him. Ch, yes. But
when you do, be well aware that your
own spiritual life is gradually ebbing
away. Week by week, month by
month, year by year, on account of that
bitterness you have been lifting higher
and higher and higher an unsurmount?
able* wall between you and God.
Brother, sister, lt ls high time you tore
down that obstructing wall. It ls
high time you consumed that hatred in
the conflagration of tho setting sun. It
is destroying your spiritual hopes.
