, and quoted the words of Saint Paul in the injunction:
"Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye who are spiritual
restore such an one in the spirit of meekness, considering thyself, lest
thou also be tempted." To have gone, in a spirit of love, privately and
quietly, and pointed out the error, would have been Christian-like; to
exult in it must be described by a very different term. Devotion to
truth is good, but it is "speaking the truth in love" that is the ideal.
It is even possible to convey questioning, counsel, encouragement, or
reproach without the spoken word; to send the message by the law of
suggestion from mind to mind. The mental intimation will reach the one
to whom it is sent if the conditions for telepathy are observed, for
thought is far more penetrative than the Roentgen ray, and the
atmosphere is magnetic, and carries it as the wire does the electric
current. All these finer conditions are beginning to make themselves
felt as practicable forces. Humanity is becoming "plastic to the spirit
touch;" sensitive to those vibrations too fine to be registered by the
outward ear.

"Thought is the wages
For which I sell days,"

said Emerson. Thought is the motor of the future. "As a man thinketh, so
is he," is one of the most practical and literal truths.

It is only by the divine law that one can measure the ethics of
companionship. The frequent experiences in life of broken friendships;
of those alliances of good will, of mutual sympathies and mutual
enjoyment, that, at last, some way became entangled amid discords and
barriers, and thus come to a disastrous end,--such experiences could be
escaped were life lived by the diviner standards. Friendship need never
deteriorate in quality if each lives nobly. If one conceives of life
more nobly and generously than the other, it may become, not a means of
separation and alienation, but a means and measure of just
responsibility. There are friendships whose shipwreck is on the rock of
undue encroachment on one side and undue endurance--which has not the
noble and spontaneous character of generosity--on the other. One
imposes, the other is imposed on,--and so things run on from bad to
worse, till at last a crisis comes, and those who had once been much to
each other are farther apart than strangers. In such circumstances there
has been a serious failure,--the failure of not speaking the truth in
love. The failure on the part of the one more spiritually e