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Love! I ’ve seen it in a friend, Seen a com rade die for m ate; H eard th e crashing of a train Saw each share th e o th e r’s fate. God is love and He had hidden Such love in H is h ea rt divine P en t up in the ages past Now the Cross sets fo rth sublime. The G reatest of These. “On visiting an in stitu tion for deaf and dumb, K ing Edw ard was greeted w ith th is unique welcome. “We cannot shout, we cannot sing, B u t we can love our gracious K ing.” How glad would our heavenly F ath e r be, to be thu s g re e te d .. v. 1. Love. The verb and adjec tive for “ love” in classical Greek are used exclusively of affection in which the element of passion is absent or negligible and even COMMENT FROM of contended ae- MANY SOURCES quiescence in some K eith L. Brooks object. This ab sence of the pas sionate elem ent makes it specially su it able to describe Divine love.-—-Cam. Bible. The C h ristian ’s badge is love. (Jno. 1 3 :3 5 .)— Garry. Love alone can give value to any service rendered in Christ’s name.— Sei. By thy love to God, love to thy neighbor is begotten, and by thy love to thy neighbor, love- to God is nourished.— Quarles. Jesus sits for His p o rtra it in these glowing sentences, and of H im every clause is tru e. S ubstitute H is name for “ love” th roughou t the chapter and say w hether or not it is an exact likeness.-—Meyer. Though I speak. The man of g reat theological and sp iritu a l in sigh t must occupy a very high place in th e m ind of God. If he has love— yes—-if not, he is ju st nothing.-ì—Torrey. We have all felt the brazenness of words w ithout emotion, the hollowness, th e unaccount able unpersuasiveness of eloquence
th rough h er te ars and say, “He is my boy.” This may help us a little to understand the infinite meaning of our F a th e r’s lo v e ^ A . B. Simpson. P reaching and Teaching in Love. Dr. Boswell preached a sermon on Hell, and when he w ent home his little girl said, “Papa w hat made you mad th is m orning?” “Why d ea r?” “Well, you clinched your fist and looked as if you w anted to punch a fellow into the bad place.” I t takes a g reat love to preach on hell. Unless all correction and punishm ent is done in love it has little effect for good. “The Rev. John Faw cett, of Monis- gate in Yorkshire, on a salary of about 22 pounds a year, had a much louder call to a church in London. He had his goods all in wagons, when his loving, heart-b rok en people, as they clung to him seemed to call to him more loudly th a n th e London people, even w ith the larg er salary included, so he decided to go back to Monisgate to stay w ith those who loved him so well. At th is tim e Mr. F aw cett w rote th e beautiful hymn, “ B lest be th e tie th a t binds,” a hymn th e church could no t well do w ithout. She has been singing it since 1772. Love for his church w rote it. Love T ransform s. Henry Drummond tells of a young g irl who possessed a rare loveliness of character. She always wore about her neck a small locket, b u t no one was al lowed to open it. None of h er compan ions ever knew w hat it contained, un til one day she was laid upon h er bed w ith a dangerous illness. Then she gave per m ission to one of h er g irl friends to open it. Here were th e words, “Whom not having seen I love.” T h at was th e secret of her beau tifu l life. Lpve! I knew it when a babe. Mother’s love, so tend er like, F e lt its sympathetic touch When she tucked me in a t night.
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