t they know when they had found this great love that was to make
them "a new creature"?

First of all, they might know because:

_LOVE NEVER FAILETH_.

Love suffereth long and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not
itself; is not puffed up, does not behave unseemly; seeketh not its own; is
not provoked; taketh not account of evil; rejoiceth not in unrighteousness,
but rejoiceth with the truth; beareth all things; believeth all things;
hopeth all things; endureth all things.

In fact, _LOVE NEVER FAILETH_. Love is always a safe guide. No matter what
may be said to the contrary; no matter how much suffering it entails; no
matter how seemingly fruitless the sacrifice; or how ungrateful the
results, _love_ never faileth.

How can it fail when we "seek not our own," but only love for love's own
sake, without regard to compensation or gratitude?

St. Paul, with all who have expressed in any considerable degree this
cosmic realization, seems to have expected a time, when cosmic
consciousness should become so general, as to bring the kingdom of love
upon earth. This corresponds to the Millenium, which has always been
prophesied, and which the present era fulfills, in all the "signs of the
times" that were to usher in The Dawn.

Moreover, the idea that there shall come a time when death shall be
overcome, is a persistent part of every prophecy, and of every religious
cult. In these days we find that science is speculating upon the
probability of discovering a specific for senile death, as well as for the
final elimination of death from disease and accidents.

Whether or not this is to be the manner of "overcoming the last enemy," the
fact remains that the almost universally held idea of physical immortality
has a basis in fact, which this postulate of science symbolizes.

"For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortality must put
on immortality, but when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption,
and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the
saying that is written: 'Death is swallowed up in victory.'"

So said St. Paul, and his words show clearly that before his time there had
been a prophecy and belief in the final triumph of love over death, not as
an article of faith, but as a common knowledge.

St. Paul speaks of the time when "we shall not all sleep, but we shall all
be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump.

"And then come