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 of that inward unrest which it is the nature of this opposite love to produce.

Who that has ever truly loved—be it husband, mother, wife or child—does not know that in the exercise of disinterested love, there is an unspeakable bliss which the world cannot give? The Lord promises peace—his own peace—to all who humbly acknowledge Him, and willingly consecrate themselves on the altar of duty. "Peace I leave with you," says He to all such—"my peace I give unto you." There is true peace nowhere but in Him;—nowhere but in the reception and exercise of his unselfish love. Therefore He says: "In me ye shall have peace." And when those who have followed Him in the regeneration, enter the spiritual world and come more fully into their life's love, they will receive in greater fullness than ever before the delights of that love. They will then know, from the sweet seraphic joy that floods their souls, the full meaning of the words, "Enter thou into the joy of thy Lord."

But they who have yielded habitually to the promptings of their lower nature, regardless of God and the good of the neighbor, and have not denied self, taken up the cross, and followed the Divine Master—these, when they enter the other world, come more fully into the life and delights of self-love. And what are these? The delights of fraud, hatred, revenge, adultery, blasphemy, wickedness of every kind;—delights, indeed, to those whose ruling love is the love of self, but torment