HATRED.
Let God arise, let his enemies be scattered: let them also that hate him flee before him.—Psalm lxviii. 1.
Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.—Proverbs, x. 12.
He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him.—Proverbs, xxvi. 24.
Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate.—Amos, v. 15.
He that hateth me hateth my Father also.—John, xv. 23.
I tell thee not the burning thunderbolt,
When its fierce brow is lit in blasting flames,
Stooping from its red chariot to sweep
The earth, its angry voice is pealing o’er,
Is half so deadly, or so sure as hate.
Promethean hate! that can make cowards bold;
Where he pursues it is in vain to flee;
Where his form comes, a blight is on the earth;
Where his hand strikes, life passeth, or is cursed;
Where his eye glances, there despair comes down;
Where his breath falls, all mercy vanisheth.
Constantia L. Reddell.
Blunted unto goodness is the heart which anger never stirreth,
But that which hatred swelleth, is keen to carve out evil.
Anger is a noble infirmity, the generous failing of the just,
The one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogatives of virtue;
But hatred is a slow continuing crime, a fire in the bad man’s breast,
A dull and hungry flame, for ever craving insatiate.
Hatred would harm another; anger would indulge itself;
Hatred is a simmering poison; anger, the opening of the valve;
Hatred destroyeth as the upas-tree; anger smiteth as a staff;
Hatred is the atmosphere of hell, but anger is known in heaven.
Martin F. Tupper.