George Brinton Chandler

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The fearing, grumbling, worrying, vascillating do not succeed in anything and generally live by burdening, in some form or another, someone else.  They stand in the way of, they prevent their own success; they fail in living even an ordinary healthy, normal life; they cast a blighting influence over and they act as a hindrance to all with whom they at any time come in contact.  The pleasures we take captive in life, the growth and advancement we make, the pleasure and benefit our company or acquaintanceship brings to others, the very desirability of our companionship on the part of others—­all depend upon the types of thought we entertain and live most habitually with.

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    No one could tell me where my Soul might be. 
    I searched for God but God eluded me. 
    I sought my brother out and found all there.

    Ernest Crosby.

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In the degree that we love will we be loved.  Thoughts are forces.  Each creates of its kind.  Each comes back laden with the effect that corresponds to itself and of which it is the cause.

    “Then let your secret thoughts be fair—­
    They have a vital part, and share
    In shaping words and moulding fate;
    God’s system is so intricate.”

If our heart goes out in love to all with whom we come in contact, we inspire love and the same ennobling and warming influences of love always return to us from those in whom we inspire them.  There is a deep scientific principle underlying the precept—­If you would have all the world love you, you must first love all the world.

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    It was only a glad “Good morning!”
          As she passed along the way,
    But it spread the morning glory
          Over the livelong day.

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By example and not by precept.  By living, not by preaching.  By doing, not by professing.  By living the life, not by dogmatizing as to how it should be lived.  There is no contagion equal to the contagion of life.  Whatever we sow, that shall we also reap, and each thing sown produces of its kind.  We can kill not only by doing another bodily injury directly, but we can and we do kill by every antagonistic thought.  Not only do we thus kill, but while we kill we suicide.  Many a man has been made sick by having the ill thoughts of a number of people centered upon him; some have been actually killed.  Put hatred into the world and we make it a literal hell.  Put love into the world and heaven with all its beauties and glories becomes a reality.

Not to love is not to live, or it is to live a living death.  The life that goes out in love to all is the life that is full, and rich, and continually expanding in beauty and in power.  Such is the life that becomes ever more inclusive, and hence larger in its scope and influence.