W'ood B'urne 1947 Think ""LOVE""

[JBKlyde]

Let's make Love a Verb. Too long it has been mostly a noun, a name, a nice picture, admired but too frail for the market place. True it is a verb in mother-love and romance but rare in daily drudgery. Love-songs and love stories glamorize Platonic infatuation but living love and lovely living is limited in latitude. Self-Styled Christian Nations blasted brotherly love in 2 world wars. To live down this plus the cruelty of Crusades, the disgrace of the Thirty Year War, the evil of the Inquisitions and present day enmity in our divided ranks, we Christians must do alot of loving. We must parallel in practice as a verb the love we preach as a noun.

Life without love in a home is chilling and character corroding. Love without life to implement it in a Christian is meaningless and mute. Love has life as an active verb in dealings and doings declarations.

Lets make love retroactive, like a wadge boost. Let's go back over past failures and by repentant restitution wipe out love indebtness. Retroactive Love can calm the surging strife that sickens the souls of men.

Lets make love prophylacticl, for it can prevent impending disaster. Prophylactic serums, vaccines and sanitation forestall epidemics and deadly plagues. Dr. Gergas made possible the Panama Canal by preventing yellow fever, which had defeated all previous efforts. Prophylactic love can prevent every pestilential passion that prevents the progress of good will and peace.

Love, an action verb, presents tense; retroactive, past tense; prophylactic; future tense, is man's imperative need. Not a pulpit platitude, not a mushy love lyric, not the effeminate monopoly mothers, but a ""he-man's"" means to remake mean men.

Love a verb.-an action verb, unabashed in business, retroactively repairing and prophylactically preparing mankind for "p'eace that p'asseth all understanding." Lets make love a verb.

Such thought should not evaporate in thin air. But they will if forgotten. Love will have more meaning as a noun according to how often we make it a verb. What do you think??