EDITORIAL
LOVE!
Dear Readers, have you ever thought what a
wonderful thing love is?
What would life be without love?
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There would be no true happiness without love.
And yet we must admit that love is in some ways a great
danger.
We must remember that many great teachers have
forbidden it.
What did the great Buddha say to Ananda?
“ Beware of women, Anandal "
" But, Lord, they are subtle
of speech I "
" Don’t speak to them, Anandal”
“ But, Lord,
suppose they speak to us ? ”
“ Keep wide awake, Anandal "
Think of Paul’s contemptuous permission, “ It is. better
to marry than to burn "—it is easy to see that Paul had
never been married !—and of his Master’s plain prohibition
of anything of the sort.
If our own Beloved Lord and Teacher does not join the
band, it is (may I suggest with all humility?) because He
wants us to be strong enough to manage our own affairs
without resorting to the extreme of prohibition.
But it is hard upon the weak.
Think of A, who left
the noblest and the most exalted pursuits for a baser love, a
love in a boarding—house in Hoxton, a love with spectacles
and elastic-sided boots; think of B, who married (on her
holiday as a maid-of—all-work in Bayswater) a forty-pfennig
fly—by—night from Hamburg, who cuckolded him openly in
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