mwkm LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. | ^kmMi Shelf ..-M7„f ..-Si^i 4^ UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. i5 »!t^tt;- ' aasjsgasBasijaaicsaasscggjGc^ ?; m trf? ,-,f^;> "^W 1^ w ^P ^ EWR ^ pM i ^^M i ^ 1 ^ w s i ^E jrkji M ^i^ SONGS OF THE LIFE ETERNAL *Ci0 f^eaben must come, not ine must go.' Lord Jesus Christ, grow Thou in me, And all things else recede ! My heart be daily nearer Thee, From sin be daily freed. Each day let Thy supporting might My weakness still embrace, My darkness vanish in Thy light, Thy life my death eiface. In Thy bright beams which on me fall Fade every evil thought ; That I am nothing, Thou art all, I would be daily taught. Make this poor self grow less and less. Be Thou my light and aim; Oh, make me daily, through Thy grace, More meet to bear Thy name." *' Somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book, or a friend, or, best of all, in your own thoughts — the eternal thought speaking in your own thought." SONGS LIFE ETERNAL; OTHER WRITINGS. BY 3 3 EDWARD RANDALL KNOWLES. •i-^i^''^^^^-'- .^M BOSTON. 1891. MlH^' Copyright, 1891, Bv EDWARD R. KNOWLES. iKontents; To MY Wife Page 5 Life Eternal .... 7 The Day is at Hand . 8 Our Lady of Perpetual Help . 9 The Conversion of St. Augustine 10 Rest and Peace! .... 11 The Love and Joy of Heaven . 12 Jesus Only 14 Thomas F. Hendricken 15 St. Edward the Confessor 16 To Archbishop Williams . 17 Personal Reflections 18 Shelley 19 Alone 20 Restoration 22 The True Christian Science 28 Practical Christianity- 34 Ecce Veritas! . 36 (3) JBetiication* TO MY WIFE. To thee, so noble, fair, and true, So patient, loving, kind. In humble verse I offer now The homage of my mind. Faithful through trials thou hast proved, Companion, wife, and friend; Henceforth for all eternity Our love shall never end. Thou hast a dignity beside The honored name of wife: Maternity's bright gems enhance The beauty of thy life. Mother so gentle, wife so true! Expression adequate I cannot find to tell thy worth, Thy merits to relate. (5) Songs of the Life Eternal LIFE ETERNAL. Two worlds there are : the one is real, The other but seemmg; both are here. The seeming doth to us reveal Its attractions o'reat and our friends most dear. But greater far in the Spirit's light Are the pleasures of matter's sense bereft, When the world of the seeming fades from sight, And the real existence alone is left. And dearer yet our friends will be When illusions of earth from our lives have passed, And the spirit from matter's bond is free. And the life eternal begun at last. (7) SONGS OF THE LIFE ETERNAL. THE DAY IS AT HAND. Through the long vigil of the night, To greet the dawning of the light, I wait in peace, 'mid silence deep. By expectation held from sleep. Sustine me, Domine ! Though dark and endless seems the gloom, Like to the quiet of the tomb, I wait contented without fear ; The glory of the dawn is near. Judica me, Domine! The day is coming ; Glorious Sun Of Righteousness I Thy will be done ! Throughout the vast eternity Thy radiance shines triumphantly. Grloria tihL Domine ! SONGS OF THE LIFE ETERNAL. OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP. Unto the holy temple faltering came A pilgrim, footsore, ragged, and forlorn ; Weak and exhausted ; weary, sick, and lame ; By passions, doubts, and piercing sorrows torn. To the blest Virgin Mother's favored shrine he brought A heart with grief and tearful supplication fraught. Whence comes this tranquil, holy, peaceful calm That doth upon his troubled spirit pour? He seems to hear the sweet, consoling psalm, "The Lord, Thy Shepherd, doth thy soul restore." As thus the Mother kind his prayer antici- pates, His heart with tender love and gratitude di- lates. 10 SONGS OF THE LIFE ETERNAL. THE CONVERSION OF ST. AUGUSTINE. O Blessed One ! Thy life, Incarnate once for me, Now animates my soul. Enabling me to see Satan's devices deep, And each alluring snare. Call Thou my soul from sleep, Who dost all ill repair. Around me float the clouds Of error, doubt, despair ; Extend Thy mercy. Lord I Destroy me not, — forbear I But suffer me to live. Thy servant. Lord, to be. Father! Thy Spirit give To raise and quicken me. Blest Mother of my Lord ! Entreat of Thy dear Son That by this humble hand His bidding may be done. O Saviour ! Let not pride Control nor hinder me. Forever at my side Deign Thou, my God, to be I SONGS OF THE LIFE ETERNAL. 11 REST AND PEACE A THANKSGIVING AFTER A MISSION. Jesu ! Creator ! God Omnipotent ! To Thee in grateful praise each knee is bent Powerless are banished evils to molest. Oh dwell forever with us, our Eternal Rest I Sweet Jesus ! Resting calm in Thy embrace. We know that Thou dost every sin efface ; And in Thy loving arms all sorrows cease. Thou art our Rest, our Joy, our Life, om- Peace ! 12 SONGS OF THE LIFE ETERNAL. THE LOVE AND JOY OF HEAVEN. I LOVE Thy labor, Blessed Lord ! Thy love is life to me ; And in the fulness of Thy grace A heaven of rest I see. The rest Thou givest to Thine own Is not that carnal ease Indulged by those who idly seek Their own poor selves to please. It is a rest of perfect joy. The joy of labor given The poor and sick for love of Thee, Which brings foretaste of heaven. This little glimpse Thou givest now Of Thy blest heaven above. Incites me here to strive to gain That heaven of perfect love. SONGS OF THE LIFE ETP^RNAL. 13 And what does perfect love bestow But perfect peace and rest; And countless joys bestowed by Thee, Who knowest what is best? Jesus ! Sweet vSaviour ! Grant to me This perfect joy to know ! In Thee alone that joy I find ; Dear Lord, I love Thee so ! 14 SONGS OF THE LIFE ETERNAL. JESUS ONLY. Jesus Only ! This the burden Of the everlasting song Ever raised by angels holy ; And the bright, celestial throng Bowing low in adoration Down before the Saviour's throne, Unto Him, the Sun of Heaven, Loud, ecstatic hymns intone. Grace Ineffable and Wisdom ! Joy and Life and Strength and Peace! Love and Goodness ! Power Substantial ! Thou whose glories never cease ! Lost in loving adoration Thus we join the angel choir, Praising Him, that Life Eternal Unto Whom our souls aspire. SONGS OF THE LIFE ETERNAL. 15 THOMAS F. HENDRICKEN.* O SAINTED father ! bishop, guide, and friend ! What memories sad and sweet those titles blend ! Thy loving children in long retrospect Upon thy living, ardent faith reflect. Thy zeal for God's great glory proudly shows Where yon cathedral's massive walls repose. No longer doth thy presence grace that throne ; The Eternal Bishop claims thee for his own. Saint 3^et uncanonized ! With longing ear The faithful's invocation now I hear. When future ages shall thy life relate, " Ora pro riobis, saint and advocate ! " *The first bishop of Providence. 16 SONGS OF THE LIFE ETERNAL. ST. EDWARD THE CONFESSOR. Thy hallowed name, confessor-king, A treasure precious, lovingly I bear. Thy patronage, an heritage Of noble worth and memory, T share. Aliens to thee in rule and creed Profane the temple by thy bounty reared; The mammon-god is now adored Where once the lowly Jesus was revered. But let me not an alien be To that grand temple of the living faith. By willing hands throughout all lands Sustained. Far sooner may my every breath Be one of sorrow, suffering, toil, and care. Pray thou for me, my patron, friend, and guide, That I may hold in Jesus' fold That living faith which is my only pride. Miscellaneous Poems, TO ARCHBISHOP WILLIAMS, MARCH 11, 1891. C'LEAif as the sky of early morn On this thy festal clay, With starry gems o'er its vast expanse Shining in bright array. Thus be thy memory's record fair ; Be all life's clouds dispelled ; And only the gems of thy life's reward Upon its tablet held. May this bright, peaceful consciousness Greatly thy life prolong. Of a life nobly spent the memory is Eternal, clear, and strong. (IT) 18 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. PERSONAL REFLECTIONS. ON PKESENTING A MIRROR TO A LADY. This mirror, framed 'mid ancient carvings rare, Which hath for centuries the charms portrayed Of distant Persia's noblest ladies fair In splendors oriental bright arrayed; Destined to yet reflect a charming face. Of calm repose and with expression sweet, Reigning above a form of matchless grace ; O Lady fair, with worthy charms replete ! This souvenir I give to thee. Thus to fulfil its destin}-. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 19 SHELLEY. A>' ACKOSTIC. Peer of noblest poets bright, Eternal Truth's undaunted knight, Rich in energy of love, Clear in imagery of mind. Yielding to none in genius grand. Battling 'midst a world unkind, Shelley did his life devote Human welfare to promote. Eternal Spirit, Power of Good ! Let inspiration high our natures flood. Loosing our minds from superstition's bond, Enabling earth's bewildering gloom profound Yet to bring forth a paradise of good. 20 MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. ALONE. FEBRUARY, ISStV Alone in my dreary garret, High up from the noisy street, I think of two little cherubs, And dream that I hear their feet. Up they come, joyously running, Perching one on each knee ; And two little chubby faces Shower kisses sweet upon me. 'Tis sweet to conjure in fancy These two little faces so dear. But then comes a pang of sorrow, Alas ! they're not really here. MISCELLANEOUS POEMS. 21 God's curse be on them that would part us ! My children, so happy and bright ! He yet will restore you to me ; He guide th all things aright. Away, thou maddening fancy ! I yet must endure and wait. Alone the vision has left me ; Alone in the gloom with my hate. 22 MISCELLANEOIJS POEMS. RESTORATION. FEBRUARY, 1891. God's justice overrules the hate of men, His bounty patient suffering will crown, Alike His favors and His chastenings bless, The humble He exalts, the proud casts down. No longer 'mid the garret's squalid gloom I vainly hope, till hope to deep despair Is turned, whilst all the future promise th Is sorrow, struggle, and incessant care. Once more my home is happily restored, Again my darling children round me play. Effulgent, joyous rays of heavenly light Brighten the dawning of a better day. The True Christian Science, THE WATCHMAN, OCT. 16, Never, probably, in the history of the Chris- tian era has there been a period when, from all directions and sources, the false claim, — once warningly predicted by the divine Saviour, — " Lo, here is Christ ; or, lo, He is there," has been set forth so generally and widely as at the present time. And to every thoughtful person immediately recurs the admonitory sequence of the Lord's prediction : '' But take ye heed ; be- hold I have foretold you all things." '' Believe it not." But after this command of Jesus we read : " But in those days, after that tribulation , . . then shall they see the Son of Man com- ing in the clouds with great power and glory." Now we behold on every side all possible forms of philosophies, systems, and even pretended revelations of Divine wisdom, each gaining over (23) 24 THE TRUE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. to its support its more or less deluded and in- fatuated crowd of exponents and devotees, and each claiming to be solely and exclusively the final philosoph}^ the ultimate possible develop- ment of revealed religion, the summa lux mundi. Yet they are all imbued with principles of utter fatuity, inconsistenc}^ and lawlessness, which logically and practically lead to the most fear- ful consequences in faith, disposition, and prac- tical experience. Without delaying to consider the expositions of the various claims, theories, and doctrines advanced by these " Christian Scientists," " Faithists," false prophets, and bogus Messiahs of the present day, it is the purpose of this brief article to contrast with the pseudo-Christian Science fanaticism of our time, and its pernicious applications and results, the true Christian Science, that union with our Saviour Jesus Christ in our hearts, which is tlie source of all faith, knowledge, wisdom, spiritual life, and peace for the soul. The " Christian Science " doctrine is that God is everything, all, the only absolute entity. God is good, not evil ; therefore all is good, and there is no evil. Evil is onl}^ a delusion of a perverted mortal mind. Turning from this de- lusion, (though the absurdity is very apparent THE TRUE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 25 of a part of God entertaining such a delusion for it to turn away from) we ignore error, sin, sickness, and death, which are unreal, and do not truly occur at all. We tlius consider our- selves, argues the "' Christian Scientist," one, in being, with God, " in whom we live, and move, and are." Furthermore, he claims, God is wholly spirit, and hence there is no matter ; what we call matter is but the phenomena of this eternal and omnipresent spirit presented for our contemplation in accordance with fixed and permanent laws. Spirit is the only reality ; God is perfect, therefore all is perfect ; and, conse- quently, we are, as to our real selves, perfect, good, free, wise, well, and immortal. The fal- lacy, '' God is all," is affirmed in a sense that so identifies God with the universe as to ignore the fact that an Infinite Being may have person- ality and must have an infinite power of self- adjustment in an}' degree, and thus must be capable of assuming the closest personal rela- tions with finite persons. The most pernicious result of this " Christian Science " fallacy is that it annihilates human individuality, free-will, and accountabiUty, and leads the sinner to the fatuous belief that of his own will and strength he can ignore and evade all the consequences of 26 THE TRUE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. sin and ignorance. All human experience, to say nothing of Revelation, disproves this idea that a man can, by " coming into a true under- standing of being," and by ignoring and deny- ing the reality of sin and its various results, be- come instantly free from all consequences of his past errors or misdeeds. With its unsound but seductive exegesis, " Christian Science " de- clares, in proof of this Satanic delusion, the text, '' For as he tliiuketh in his heart, so is he," and argues that disease and all other evils are merely a matter of belief and of opinion, and that there is no sin if a man only thinks there is not. Though '' Christian Science " is but a re- vival, in its theological and philosophical as- pects, of old errors, yet its popularity rests mainly upon the application of its pantheistic ideas in a new and attractive way, viz., the re- moval of disease. But the inconsistency of trying to cure a serious case of disease by " Christian Science " methods is evident from the simple fact that, according to the declared principles of " Christian Science,'' the meta- physician cannot know but that the spiritual influence tending to originate, foster, and con- template that "delusion of mortal mind " known THE TRUE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 27 as sickness may be far too powerful for his own right understanding, together with all the spir- itual influence he can invoke and bring to bear on the case, to control or counteract in order to bring the patient to a realization of his real ( ?) condition of health, and immunity from all such evils as he is wrongly disposed to contemplate as real. Thus we find that this stupendous fallacy, self-styled " Christian Science," whilst ever reiterating the claim that '' all is good," constantly recognizes and tries to remedy a defi- nite form of evil ; namely, spirit in a condition of error, discord, disquiet, and perversity of will. I cannot more concisely epitomize the truth about this anti-Christian and lawless movement than to quote from a recent address made in Chicago by an earnest and sincere Methodist minister. He says : " A sj^stem which denies the personality of God, the personality of man, the reality of sin, the necessity of the Atone- ment, is another gospel. It calls forth the de- nunciation of the apostle : 'But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.' It is from the devil, and it is the most subtle form in which 28 THE TKUE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. Christian faith can be attacked. It dethrones God, it perverts Scripture, it annihilates sin, it blots out the sun in the spiritual firmament, the atoning work of our Lord Jesus Christ. It deludes the soul with a muddy twaddle about good, peace, harmony, life, and health, wresting a portion of Scripture here and there to give Christian color and sanction. Tested by the canoyis of science^ it is not science, nor even the semblance of ity '' Ask me not," he adds, " to exchange the glorious gospel of the risen Lord for a human philosophy which revamps old errors, which dethrones God, enshrouds the Scriptures in thick clouds and darkness, and veils the face of the Crucified One ! Sin, sor- row, tribulation, are real. To shut one's eyes and calmly deny their existence is the sheerest folly, and mocks the deepest instincts of the human heart. The cure for the woes of life is Jesus Christ the Saviour of sinners." In running after the delusions of " Christian Science " and other similar conceits and " isms," men follow Satan instead of Christ. I won't pause here to discuss the existence and person- ality of Satan. It is certain from the Gospels that Jesus Christ believed in his reality, and that is reason enough iovmy belief. The devil's THE TIUTE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 29 aim in fostering all these philosophies and cults of our time, which are based upon half-truths, seductive fallacies, and perversions of truth, is to demoralize and bewilder pure-minded and intellectual people whom his baser and more earthly wiles do not ensnare, to Aveaken their will and individuality, and thus lower them to a degree wherein they become a ready prey to those grosser forms of temptation which they have been hitherto proof against. The com- placency and self-conceit of those souls who are thus led to identify the Avill of self with that of God, believing themselves part of the Divine Spirit, and therefore perfect and impeccable be- cause God is perfect, and forgetting that the in- dividual can do nothing good without the grace of God, almost invariably precedes, presages, and indirectly causes their speedy fall from all that is good, and their utter ruin. God permits some, however, to recover themselves and return to a state of grace, after the worst of defeats in this spiritual combat with the Evil One. Such He takes up and uses to His greater glory after the devil has cast them away as useless to him, and supposedly the worn-out victims of his malice and delusions ; and if they will ever re- main mindful of their utter dependence upon 30 THE TRUE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. God for grace and strength, Satan can never regain them into his power. God's overruling providence makes even the worst of past ex- periences useful to us ; and thus, if we but lean on God's direction, we need never trouble our- selves about anything that is past, always pro- vided that we have a sincere desire to amend and rectify anything we may have done, when and how it may please God to give us the op- portunity and direction, which sooner or later He will bring about in His wise plan for our best good. Meanwhile, we should follow the duty He gives us to do, but His inspiration will never prompt us to ignore absolutely and repu- diate any responsibility our past life may have incurred. And in this we behold the great practical difference between th« true Christian life and practice, and such false systems as the pseudo-science we have been considering. Again, if God is the only reality and entity, is it not inconsistent for a " Christian Scientist " to try to lead another person (or, rather, another part of the universal sea of mind or spirit) away from "the delusions of mortal mind " and into " the Science of Being " ? For there is no way whereby he can judge whether one or the other is the more clearly and truly in the un- THE TRUE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 31 derstanding of the Divine Being and Wis- dom ; in short, the tendency of the " Christian Science " craze, when followed out to its fullest logical results, is to dethrone both the will and the reason, annihilating individuality and free- dom of volition, and to lead finally to absolute lawlessness in all things, culminating in despair and insanity. In the worst state of bewilderment, agnosti- cism and uncertainty into which a poor, deluded soul can fall, there is always possible a sure, in- tuitive perception of truth for the sincere mind, terribly hard, perhaps, to recognize, and only to be at first attained by absolute self-forgetfulness and by inclining the soul's perceptions heaven- ward to know it, but always within reach of the repentant prayer of the worst sinner or the most deluded fanatic. It is the voice of God ; to which, however far from Him we may be spir- itually, we must incline our hearts to receive truth and wisdom. " Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and He shall sustain thee ; He shall never suffer the righteous to be moved." Thh is the true Christian Science. Yield a ready compli- ance with heavenly inspirations, become united with Jesus Christ in our hearts in love and will and understanding, and never forget that at 32 THE TRUE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. best our finite selves are utteii}^ dependent on His grace and mercy to keep us in the way of truth, and free from those fetters of Satan, — pride, error, sin, misery, sickness, and death. As applicable to the transition from the j^hil- osophy of conceit, the religion of self-interest, and the theories of pseudo-science, to the true science of the Christ, I may add in conclusion the following words of Sir Thomas Browne : " Rest not in the high-strained paradoxes of old philosophy, supported by naked reason and the reward of mortal felicit}^ ; but labor in the ethics of faith, built upon heavenl}^ assistance and the happiness of both beings." To this faith there is ever ready for us a loving Guide, who is the true light of life, " and His name is called the Word of God." '' Jesus, my Saviour ! look on me. For I am weary and opprest ; I come to cast myself on Thee : Thou art my Rest. " Look down on me, for I am weak, I feel the toilsome journey's length ; Thine aid omnipotent I seek : Thou ai-t my Strength. THE TRUE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 33 I am bewildered on my way, Dark and tempestuous is the night; Oh send Thou forth some cheering ray : Thou art my Light. When Satan flings his flery darts, I look to Thee ; my terrors cease ; Thy cross a hiding-place imparts : Thou art my Peace. Standing alone on Jordan's brink, In that tremendous latest strife, Thou wilt not suffer me to sink : Thou art my Life. '' Thou wilt my every want supply, E'en to the end, wbate'er befall ; Through life, in death, eternally. Thou art my All." 34 thp: true chkistian science PRACTICAL CHRISTIANITY. FROm A LETTEK TO A MINISTER OF THE GOfSPEL. Many persons may disapprove and condemn your methods in works of human benevolence, and say, " You are vainly striving to do good amidst overwhelming and chaotic elements of evil. You have no apostolic ministry, — no mis- sion, no jurisdiction." We who truly aim to confess in our lives and work that Jesus is the Son of God, dwelling in love and freely losing our wills in His, care nothing for such an im- peachment. We are actuated by the highest and holiest cause, — even the direct influence of the Holy Spirit moving us, and bestowed by our Lord Himself. We have the vocation of use and efficiency, the obedience of opportunity and necessity. We have the mission of Love, the jurisdiction of Demand ! From thousands and thousands of starving, perishing, and sinful mortals — not only in distant lands, but about us, beside us, every- where^ — comes^the^despairing, earnest, hunger- THE TRUE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 35 ing cry, " Come and help us ! Raise us from our wretched state ! Show us the way to eternal life ! " We must forward to our work. We have no time to stop now, to ponder over logom- achies about the Trinity, to indulge in schol- astic disputations about ministerial intention as affecting sacramental validity, or to interchange clerical civilities, or quite their reverse, about " rectorial jurisdiction " or the respect or in- fringement of ^' parochial cures." Let the Church bow her head in silent sliame till this earnest demand is in some degree, more than now, satisfied, and until the great Church of Humanity can offer up to the Eternal Lord and Redeemer a vast harvest of souls brought to God through Jesus, and redeemed from super- stition, ignorance, suffering, sin, and death, and can declare to Him : " Lord, I have kept the trust Thou gavest. I did not bury Thy gifts in the earth of superstition and formality. Accept this offering of beloved souls redeemed from sin and death to righteousness and life eternal in Jesus, our Lord and our King, to whom be glory and dominion for ever and ever ! " 36 THE TRUE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. ECCE VERITAS While we believe that all life is from God, many cannot comprehend that God is the life of all. They will say that, though all life is from God, yet each individual has a free will. How, then, can his own efforts, directed by that personal choice, have anything to do with his salvation ? We reply, — For that very reason, viz., because he enjoys freedom of will. All power is of God, and a man is saved in part by his own efforts only when he comes to know that all strength is from God and is yet part of God, and that he, as an incarnation of Divine Life, is a Son of God, and to appreciate and strive to maintain that dignity. This is the putting off the natural man and putting on that character which shall be immortal. It is the return of the prodigal to his heritage. Those Christians who fail to accept the doc- trine of a Trinity of three Divine Persons^ as well as Essentials^ do not thereby necessarily fail to believe in and appreciate the divinity of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Knowing the THE TRUE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. 37 Divine Life manifested in perfection and eter- nally in Christ does not prevent them from rec- ognizing the truth that all life is from the Lord, in Whom is no evil, and that the relatively evil and depraved man (so to express it) neither lowers the character of the Divine Life in him whereby he lives and is, nor alters its power and its law, but only punishes his mortal self for his transgressions of that law in the exercise of his own free will. God is incarnate in the best and the worst alike. The salvation of men depends upon their dying to self and living to God alone, and thus becoming like the Divine Master, Who said, — " I and my Father are one." Love destroys self, and brings us into the realization of the Divine Life alone. " No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and His love is perfected in us." In the acceptance and following of this rule, we neither deny nor detract from the divinity and majesty of Jesus, Who said, — '' And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me." We aim thus to lift up and exalt Him by our 38 THE TRUE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE. faith and love, and thereby to lift up also our hearts to Him, to be His and His alone. " Thou seemest human and divine, The highest, holiest manhood. Thou ; Our wills are ours, we know not how ; Our wills are ours, to make them Thine." " Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God." " And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love, and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him." w ^IN W@(i fl YC^S L ^^ ^ "^MUM n ^ S^? ^^JVk k "^fi ^ ^^^ k i ^i '■TT^: ■Jft^J LIBRARY OF CONGRESS