though I have the gift of prophecy, and
understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all
faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not love, I am
nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though
I give my body to be burned, and have not love, it profiteth me
nothing. Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love
vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up: Doth not behave itself unseemly;
Seeketh not her own. Is not easily provoked. Thinketh no evil;
rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all
things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Love never faileth; but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail;
whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge,
it shall vanish away. For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part
shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child; but when I
became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a
glass, darkly; but then face to face; now I know in part; but then
shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope,
love, these three, but the greatest of these is love."

The more I study Odd-Fellowship, the more I become convinced that I
have just crossed the threshold, and that new truths and sublime
lessons await me, of which I never dreamed. Brothers, there is hidden
treasure in our order for which we must dig. It must be brought to the
surface. We must know more of the beauties of this great organization
of ours. "The greatest thing," says some one, "a man can do for his
Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of His other children." "I
wonder why it is that we are not all kinder than we are? How much the
world needs it. How easily it is done. How instantaneously it acts.
How infallibly it is remembered. How super-abundantly it pays itself
back--for there is no debtor in the world so honorable, so superbly
honorable, as love. Love is success. Love is happiness. Love is
life." "Where love is, God is. He that dwelleth in love dwelleth in
God. God is love. Therefore love." "Without distinction, without
calculation, without procrastination, love. Lavish it upon the poor,
where it is very easy; especially upon the rich, who often need it
most; most of all upon our equals, where it is very difficult, and for
whom perhaps we each do least