Editorial September 5, 1908 Issue

THE PURIFICATION OF SENSE

John B. Willis

Refinement of experience is always preceded by purification of thought, the ennoblement of our living by the exaltation of our concepts, and it is this that gives such dynamic significance to the ideal. The believer's highest concept of Christian truth and of Christian privilege is the spiritual magnet, in loyal and continuous response to which he realizes his spiritual advance, together with the advance of his ideal, and this process is never more certainly indicated than when he finds himself entertaining a higher and holier sense of things, when words bring to consciousness an ever sweeter, more uplifting meditation.

All this will appear when we think of the simple and familiar word love, to which different people give such diversified and contradictory interpretations. For those whose activities are impelled, for the most part, by animal instincts, love means fleshly satisfaction, and like Queen Guinevere, they may have to learn through unspeakable suffering the unworthiness of this too common sense, and in their shame and agony cry out with her,—

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