Beckwith, J: Whose Love Was the Greater?

Excerpt from Whose Love Was the Greater?: Undated Leaves From a Diary

The great social evil - divorce - is principally caused through faithlessness of man. The world judges men and women on different and, to the man, unjust scales - unjust because it practically allows him that which it condemns in a woman, and thus permits him to think that faithlessness is far less of a sin than it really is. The unpar donable sin in woman is a pardonable sin in'man - a mere tri¿e. But while the unwritten man made laws shield and overlook the sexual sins in man, there are laws that judge men and women alike - the laws of God. In the heart of each man and woman is a part of the Creator Himself. We call it conscience. While it does not always keep us from erring, it tells us when we do wrong. No matter how strong the sexual impulses are in man, he cannot commit an act of unfaithfulness without the voice of conscience crying out against it. Around his soul he lights the torturing ¿ames of hell. It is in an effort to show this that these pages were written. Naturally then they must be pages of weakness, for no man who is strong in his love and who has taught himself to master his impulses, could sin against the one woman to whom he has promised love and all that which love holds and means.

We might contend that weakness should nutbe portrayed in books and stories, but - inasmuch as weakness is more common than strength, a fact the divorce courts of to-day bear only too plainly evidence of - should we not picture life as it is? We admire that which is strong and beautiful, yet it is not through the mirror of strength and beauty that we perceive our own faults, but by looking deep into our own souls, seeing ourselves - not as men see us - but as God sees us, without masks, without self-deceit.

The name we cut in the young life's b'ark Shall stand when the hair turns gray.

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