Article December 2, 1911 Issue

The hater is to be envied on no account

Washington (D. C.) Post

The hater is to be envied on no account. His abilities are extremely ordinary and commonplace. It is far easier to hate than to love. Without much effort, one can hate anybody. Ninety-nine times out of a hundred, however, the hurt is to the hater. It is his own soul that becomes impoverished and broken down.

Love is the foundation of Christianity. The injunction to love, even your enemies, is not merely a commandment, but the enunciation of a divine Principle that involves happiness to the one who follows it. It can only be carried out through the recognition of spiritual truths. What is the secret meaning, for example, of the command, "Whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain"? Apparently this: The first mile represents the power of hate, manifested by force; the second is a mile throughout whose whole pathway the principles of hate are wholly inoperative, a mile that is entirely beyond the first power, trodden in the heights, transcending and overcoming in benignant sublimity the vapors of the valley below.

Hate is sometimes confused with justice and righteousness, and works under those guises. But it never brings joy or satisfaction.

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