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All this finds its culmination in what may appropriately be called the climax of his ethical precepts, the one which directs men to the supreme act of love: "But I say unto you, Love your enemies."

Love is perfect harmony. Hate is discord. Before one can love his enemies, condemnation, anger, hate, desire for revenge, envy, jealousy, covetousness, and even "righteous indignation" toward them, must all be utterly cast out of the mind along with every other inharmonious thought.

The precept necessitates this exclusion, because all these are inimical to love and cannot exist in the mind where love is, nor can love exist in the mind where these discordant thoughts are. Love and hate cannot both occupy the same mind at the same time.

The exclusion of hate is the preparation for love, and the entertainment of love is the prohibition of hate; hence this precept also stands on a basis which is distinctly scientific.

The language which he used in this connection, when stripped of its explanatory illustrations, reads thus: --

1. " Love your enemies.

2. "That ye may be the children of your Father in heaven.

3. "Ye therefore shall be perfect even as your Father in heaven is perfect." 1

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There is no more fitting counsel for the close of this book than is contained in the following words from The School of Life, by William R. Alger: --

"And now there is one more lesson for us to learn, the climax of all the rest; namely, to make a personal application to ourselves of everything which we know. Unless we master this lesson, and act on it, the other lessons are virtually useless, and thus robbed of their essential glory. The only living end or aim of everything we experience, of every truth we are taught, is the practical use we make of it for the enrichment of the soul, the attuning of the thoughts and passions, the exaltation of life. . . . When we do what we know, then first does it put on vital lustre and become divinely precious."