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The Universal Voice

Love Without Limit

Sheldon Shepard

Minister, Hollywood Wilshire Universalist Church

AS WE REGAIN our vision after the blinding flashes of atom-bombs, and other blazing fires of destruction, nearly all of us can see that civilization's very existence probably depends upon the increase of goodwill. Meanwhile scientific explorations into the character of man and the forces of human relationships indicate that love has all the potential we need for creating a paradise of human relationships. Best benefit of these advances can conceivably be an incentive to human hearts to believe and heed its ancient voices describing the way of life.

"If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am become as sounding brass or clanging cymbal," is one way in which Christianity emphasizes the supreme importance of love, as it cautions: "Let all that ye do be done in love."

In Judaism worshippers read many of the words about love that are most dear, too, to the Christian aspirant: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might. Thou shalt love

thy neighbor as thyself. The Lord your God loves the stranger; love ye therefore the stranger."

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And surely nothing can match this magnificent Buddhist proclamation of love: "If villainous bandits were to carve you limb from limb, even then it is your task to preserve your heart unmoved, never to allow an ill word to pass your lips, but always to abide in compassion and goodwillenfolding the bandits in radiant thoughts of love, and proceeding thence to enfold the whole world in your radiant thoughts of love, thoughts great, vast and beyond measure, in which no hatred is, or thought of harm."

How our hope is increased as we around, the stream of goodwill realize that, the whole world rises, and, if we trust it, will one day join ours in a tide that will raise humanity to its rightful human-divine level.

As Confucianists are cautioned, "Persons without love cannot long dwell in adversity; they cannot long dwell in prosperity. All persons have a mind which cannot bear to see the sufferings of oth

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WHEN I strictly scutinized my own and other men's development
in life and art I often found that what can properly be called an
aberration turned out to be an indispensable digression for the
individual on the way to his goal. Every return from error exerts a
mighty formative effect on man, specifically and generally, so that
it is easy to understand how the prober of hearts can take greater
pleasure in one repentant sinner than in nintey-nine righteous. As
a matter of fact we often consciously strive in the direction of an
apparently mistaken goal, just as the ferryman heads diagonally
against the current when his only concern is to land exactly across
from his starting-place.
-"Goethe: Wisdom and Experience."

Selections by Ludwig Curtius, translated by Hermann J. Weigand.

(Pantheon Books).

NEW OUTLOOK

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WEATHER VANE

A breath of Will blows eternally through the universe of souls in the direction of the Right and Necessary. It is the air which all intellects inhale, and it is the wind which blows the world into order and orbit.-Emerson.

POLL BACKS COMMISSION
FOR KOREA PEACE

George Gallup reports: If President-elect Eisenhower were to tour the country talking with voters about possible solutions to the Korean war, he would find wide popular support for settling the controversies by negotiation, with neutral countries having a major voice.

A special spot-check survey by the American Institute of Public Opinion finds overwhelming sentiment (65% to 29%) for a U.N. commission made up of an equal number of representatives from the Communist powers, allied countries and neutral nations to try to end the 29-month-old war.

RIGHTS FOR WOMEN

United Nations: The Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee, by a vote of 3 to 0, approved the proposed convention on the political rights for women and sent it to the United Nations General Assembly.

The affirmative total was raised from thirty-five through an an

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The new project plans eventually to include more extensive English translations of important current Asian publications, summer academic institutes for Oriental studies and better facilities for American scholars abroad.

DUTCH HOUSE VOTES
FOR A FEDERATED EUROPE

The Hague,

The Netherlands:

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"We now know that there will be no psychological resistance among the Dutch population to plans for a united Europe," he declared.

The Dutch vote compared with turnouts of 73 and 80 per cent respectively in similar ballots in the German towns of Castrop

The Lower House of Parliament approved today, 86 to 7, constitutional amendments making Netherlands the first country to the enact specific provisions for yield- European movement will stage its

Rauxel and Briesach with 96 per cent of the vote affirmative in both cases. It is understood that the

ing authority to supranational organizations. In the words of J. A. Burger, leader of the Laborites: "The constitutional possibility for integration now stands open."

In Delft 75 per cent of the 39,000 eligible voters cast their ballots and of these 93 per cent voted Yes to the proposition favoring a European government with democratic representation and a European constitution. In Bols

next referendum in France.

UNIT IN SOUTH ADMITS
FIVE NEGRO DOCTORS

Charleston, S. C.: Five Negro physicians have been admitted to membership in the Charleston County Medical Association. This was said to be the first time in the history of the South Carolina medical groups that white and Negro doctors have belonged to the same local organization.

NEW OUTLOOK

The five five doctors, all general practitioners in Charleston, also have become members of the South Carolina Medical Association and of the American Medical Association, to which the county membership carries automatic admission if desired. Previously they were members of the Palmetto Medical Dental and Pharmaceutical Association, an all-Negro state group.

There, memberships in the three organizations, state, national and county grew out of a meeting of the South Carolina Medical Association last May. At that time the state group voted to delete any mention of color or race from its by-laws and to recommend that county societies do the same SO that Negro physicians might be come members of the county groups a prerequisite to the state membership.

HELP FOR JAPANESE MINERS Tokyo: A $10,000 check from John L. Lewis arrived today in support of the sixty-day-old nation-wide strike of Japan's Federation of Coal Miners Unions.

Federation Chairman Akira Tanaka announced receipt of the check from the head of the United Mine workers of America just as the Japanese Government called

for a fifty-day suspension of the strike.

Dick Deverall, head of the American Federation of Labor bureau in Japan, said he had asked Mr. Lewis to support the strikers after inspecting the mining situation in Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost island.

PARAPSYCHOLOGY

Convinced that new scientific methods can throw more light on extra sensory perception and other aspects of the mind, Mrs. Eileen J. Garrett has established the Foundation Parapsychology with headquarters at 11 East Forty-fourth Street, New York, N. Y. She has more than research in view. The Foundation will also promote the moral and spiritual value of parapsychology. Grants of $1,500 for the two years have been made to the Revue Metaphysique, $1,200 to the Institute of Parapsychology of the University of Freiburg - in - Breisgua, $200 annually to the University of Innsbruck for the creation of an Eileen J. Garrett scholarship, $100 a month to the same university for a study of telepathy in paranoia, and various sums to other organizations and institutions in Switzerland, the Netherlands, Canada and England.

Clearness ornaments profound thoughts.-Vauvenargues

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