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Title: The Empire of Love

Author: W. J. Dawson

Release Date: August 28, 2006 [EBook #19134]

Language: English

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The Empire of Love

By

W. J. DAWSON

New York Chicago Toronto

Fleming H. Revell Company

London and Edinburgh

Copyright, 1907, by

FLEMING H. REVELL COMPANY

New York: 158 Fifth Avenue
Chicago: 80 Wabash Avenue
Toronto: 25 Richmond Street, W.
London: 21 Paternoster Square
Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street

To
M. M. D.,

who, during the last two years
of our residence in London,
practiced the teachings of this book
before I taught them:

proving daily
in her compassionate toil for others
the divine efficacy of simple love
to redeem the lives,
that were most estranged from virtue,
and most lost to hope.

Love feels no burden, regards not labours, would willingly do more than
it is able, pleads not impossibility, because it feels that it can and
may do all things.

THOMAS A KEMPIS.

CONTENTS

I. THE GENIUS TO BE LOVED
II. WHAT IS CHRISTIANITY?
III. THE JUSTICE OF JESUS
IV. LOVE IS JUSTICE
V. LOVE AND FORGIVENESS
VI. THE PRACTICE OF LOVE
VII. LOVE AND JUDGMENT
VIII. THE WISDOM OF THE SIMPLE
IX. THE REVELATIONS OF GRIEF
X. A CONFESSION
XI. A LOVER OF MEN
XII. THE LAW OF COMPASSION
XIII. THE EMPIRE OF LOVE
XIV. THE BUILDERS OF THE EMPIRE

THE GENIUS TO BE LOVED

_WHY THEY LOVED HIM_

_So kindly was His love to us,
(We had not heard of love before),
That all our life grew glorious
When He had halted at our door._

_So meekly did He love us men,
Though blind we were with shameful sin,
He touched our eyes with tears, and then
Led God's tall angels flaming in._

_He dwelt with us a little space,
As mothers do in childhood's years,
And still we can discern His face
Wherever Joy or Love appears._

_He made our virtues all His ow