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sighed,
Is an empty chair and a pictured face;
When all we have left in our olden place
At the doors of the undiscovered land;
When the prayer is prayed, and the sigh is
Wrong, and sorrow, and losss and love;
When the turf lies green and cold above
When the great dumb walls of silence stand
At the sunny fountain side;
When the golden bowl is broken
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STRENGTHENING THE BRETHREN. (1) It is a great privi-
lege to be able to strengthen and comfort others. (2) Only
those can do it who have passed through similar experiences,
and have gained the victory. So Jesus was "in all points
tempted like as we are, yet without sin.' (3) Doubtless
this is one reason why God suffers his children to pass through
trials and temptations. (4) Those who have come
so many
forth victorious from trials can aid others; (a) by showing that
it is possible to go through not only safely, but with larger
faith, nobler character, fuller blessings; (b) by pointing out the
way of victory; (c) by sympathy; (d) by greater earnestness
in praying for others, from a deeper realization of the dangers.
PRACTICAL SUGGESTIONS.
THE SELF-SEEKING SPIRIT leads to Satan's kingdom, not to
Christ's. It is the spirit of hell, not of heaven. It begets evils
innumerable, and sorrows unspeakable. "Fling away ambi-
tion; by that sin angels fell.' Aut Cæsar aut nullus,
"to be
first or nothing," leads to crimes and wars. It was Milton's
Satan who said, " Better to reign in hell than serve in
eaven.
How like a mounting devil in the heart rules the .nreined
ambition.'
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BUT DISTINGUISH between the strong desire to improve, to
have large usefulness, to grow in holiness and love, and the
desire to have more honor and power, or even to be better than
others. To do the very best we can in everything is our duty.
I. Selfish persons are ever seeking the best places and the highest honors for themselves.
II. The strife to be accounted greatest is one of the chief dangers of the individual and of the
church.
III. The strife should be how we can do the most good for the hardest work, the humblest service.
IV. Such only can reign with Christ, and have his reward.
V. All disciples must be sifted as wheat, to be proved true or false.
VI. Those who have passed through trials, and come forth victorious, can help others.
VII. No one knows what he will do in any circumstances till he is tested.
VIII. Different circumstances require different methods of work.
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Anthem,
(Psalm cxxxvii.)
By Babylon's wave,"
Here, by Babylon's wave,
Though heathen hands have bound us,
Though afar from the land,
The pains of death surround us;
Zioni thy mem'ry still
In our hearts we are keeping,
And still we turn to thee,
Our eyes all sad with weeping.
Thro' our harps that we hung on the trees
Goes the low wind wearily moaning;
Mingles the sad note of the breeze,
With voice as sad of sigh and groaning.
When mad with wine our foe rejoices,
When unto their altars they throng,
Loud for mirth then they call.
"A song! a song of Zion sing, lift up your
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That we sang in our father's land!
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How shall we raise Thy song so holy
Far from our fatherland
Jerusalem, if we forget thee;
Let our hands remember not their power,
And our tongues be silent from that hour.
Woe unto thee, Babylon, mighty city,
For the day of thy fall is nigh:
For thee no hope, for thee no pity.
Tho' loud thy wail riseth on high!
Then shalt thou desolate, forsaken,
Be torn from thy fanes and thy thrones.
In that day shall Thy babes be taken
And dashed against the stones,
Then unto thee, O Babylon the mighty,
Be woe, be woe.
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THOUGH I Speak with the tongues of men and of
angels, and have not Love, I am become as sounding brass,
or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of
prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge;
and though I have all faith, so that I could remove moun-
tains, and have not Love, I am nothing. And though I
bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give
my body to be burned, and have not Love, it profiteth me
nothing.
Love suffereth long, and is kind;
Love envieth not;
Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Doth not behave itself unseemly,
Seeketh not her own,
Is not easily provoked,
Thinketh no evil;
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things,
endureth all things.
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Love never faileth: but whether there be prophecies,
they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease;
For we
whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
know in part, and we prophesy in part. But when that
which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall
be done away.
When I was a child, I spake as a child,
I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when
I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we
see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I
know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am
known. And now abideth faith, hope, Love, these three;
but the greatest of these is Love.-I COR. xiii.

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EVERY one has asked himself the great ques-
tion of antiquity as of the modern world:
What is the summum bonum-the supreme
good? You have life before you. Once only
you can live it. What is the noblest object of
desire, the supreme gift to covet?
We have been accustomed to be told that
the greatest thing in the religious world is
Faith. That great word has been the key-note
for centuries of the popular religion; and we
have easily learned to look upon it as the
greatest thing in the world. Well, we are
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wrong. If we have been told that, we may
miss the mark. I have taken you, in the
chapter which I have just read, to Christianity
at its source; and there we have seen,
"The
greatest of these is love." It is not an over-
sight. Paul was speaking of faith just a
moment before. He says, "If I have all faith,
so that I can remove mountains, and have not
love, I am nothing." So far from forgetting
he deliberately contrasts them, "Now abideth
Faith, Hope, Love," and without a moment's
hesitation the decision falls, "The greatest of
these is Love."
And it is not prejudice. A man is apt to
recommend to others his own strong point,
Love was not Paul's strong point. The observ
ing student can detect a beautiful tenderness
growing and ripening all through his character
as Paul gets. old; but the hand that wrote,
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"The greatest of these is love," when we meet
it first, is stained with blood.
TEGET,
Nor is this letter to the Corinthians peculiar
in singling out love as the summum bonum.
The masterpieces of Christianity are agreed
about it. Peter says, "Above all things have
fervent love among yourselves." Above all
things. And John goes farther, "God is love."
And you remember the profound remark which
Paul makes elsewhere, "Love is the fulfilling of
the law." Did you ever think what he meant
by that? In those days men were working
their passage to Heaven by keeping the Ten
Commandments, and the hundred and ten other
commandments which they had manufactured
out of them. Christ said, I will show you a
more simple way. If you do one thing, you
will do these hundred and ten things, without
ever thinking about them. If you love, you
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will unconsciously fulfil the whole law. And
you can readily see for yourselves how that
must be so. Take any of the commandments.
"Thou shalt have no other gods before Me."
If a man love God, you will not require to tell
him that. Love is the fulfilling of that law.
"Take not His name in vain." Would he ever
dream of taking His name in vain if he loved
Him? "Remember the Sabbath day to keep
it holy." Would he not be too glad to have
one day in seven to dedicate more exclusively
to the object of his affection? Love would
fulfil all these laws regarding God. And so, if
he loved Man, you would never think of telling
him to honour his father and mother. He
could not do anything else. It would be pre-
posterous to tell him not to kill. You could
only insult him if you suggested that he should
not steal-how could he steal from those he
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loved? It would be superfluous to beg him
not to bear false witness against his neighbour.
If he loved him it would be the last thing he
would do. And you would never dream of
urging him not to covet what his neighbours
had. He would rather they possessed it than
himself. In this way "Love is the fulfilling of
the law." It is the rule for fulfilling all rules,
the new commandment for keeping all the
old commandments, Christ's one secret of the
Christian life.
Now Paul had learned that; and in this
noble eulogy he has given us the most wonder-
ful and original account extant of the summum
bonum. We may divide it into three parts. In
the beginning of the short chapter, we have
Love contrasted; in the heart of it, we have
Love analysed; towards the end, we have Love
defended as the supreme gift.

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THE CONTRAST
PAUL begins by contrasting Love with other
things that men in those days thought much of.
I shall not attempt to go over those things in
detail. Their inferiority is already obvious.
He contrasts it with eloquence. And what
a noble gift it is, the power of playing upon the
souls and wills of men, and rousing them to
lofty purposes and holy deeds. Paul says, "If
I speak with the tongues of men and of angels,
and have not love, I am become as sounding
brass, or a tinkling cymbal." And we all know
why. We have all felt the brazenness of words
without emotion, the hollowness, the unaccount-
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able unpersuasiveness, of eloquence behind
which lies no Love.
He contrasts it with prophecy. He con
trasts it with mysteries. He contrasts it with
faith. He contrasts it with charity. Why is
Love greater than faith? Because the end is
greater than the means. And why is it greater
than charity? Because the whole is greater
than the part. Love is greater than faith,
because the end is greater than the means,
What is the use of having faith? It is to con-
nect the soul with God. And what is the
object of connecting man with God? That he
may become like God. But God is Love.
Hence Faith, the means, is in order to Love,
the end. Love, therefore, obviously is greater
than faith. It is greater than charity, again,
because the whole is greater than a part.
Charity is only a little bit of Love, one of the
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innumerable avenues of Love, and there may
even be, and there is, a great deal of charity
without Love. It is a very easy thing to toss a
copper to a beggar on the street; it is generally
an easier thing than not to do it. Yet Love is
just as often in the withholding. We purchase
relief from the sympathetic feelings roused by
the spectacle of misery, at the copper's cost.
It is too cheap-too cheap for us, and often
too dear for the beggar. If we really loved him
we would either do more for him, or less.
Then Paul contrasts it with sacrifice and
martyrdom. And I beg the little band of
would-be missionaries—and I have the honour
to call some of you by this name for the first
time—to remember that though you give your
bodies to be burned, and have not Love, it pro-
fits nothing-nothing! You can take nothing
greater to the heathen world than the impress
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and reflection of the Love of God upon your
own character. That is the universal language.
It will take you years to speak in Chinese, or
in the dialects of India. From the day you
land, that language of Love, understood by all,
will be pouring forth its unconscious eloquence.
It is the man who is the missionary, it is not
his words. His character is his message. In
the heart of Africa, among the great Lakes,
I have come across black men and women who
remembered the only white man they ever saw
before-David Livingstone; and as you cross
his footsteps in that dark continent, men's faces
light up as they speak of the kind Doctor who
passed there years ago. They could not under-
stand him; but they felt the Love that beat in
his heart. Take into your new sphere of
labour, where you also mean to lay down your
life, that simple charm, and your lifework must
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succeed. You can take nothing greater, you
need take nothing less. It is not worth while
going if you take anything less. You may take
every accomplishment; you may be braced for
every sacrifice; but if you give your body to be
burned, and have not Love, it will profit you
and the cause of Christ nothing.


THE ANALYSIS
AFTER contrasting Love with these things,
Paul, in three verses, very short, gives us an
amazing analysis of what this supreme thing
is. I ask you to look at it. It is a compound
thing, he tells us. It is like light.
As you
have seen a man of science take a beam of light
and pass it through a crystal prism, as you
have seen it come out on the other side of
the prism broken up into its component colours
-red, and blue, and yellow, and violet, and
orange, and all the colours of the rainbow-so
Paul passes this thing, Love, through the mag-
nificent prism of his inspired intellect, and it
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comes out on the other side broken up into its
elements. And in these few words we have
what one might call the Spectrum of Love, the
analysis of Love. Will you observe what its
elements are? Will you notice that they have
common names; that they are virtues which we
hear about every day, that they are things.
which can be practised by every man in every
place in life; and how, by a multitude of small
things and ordinary virtues, the supreme thing,
the summum bonum, is made up?
The Spectrum of Love has nine ingredi-
ents:-
Patience. "Love suffereth long."
Kindness.
And is kind."
Generosity
"Love envieth not."
Humility
"Love vaunteth not itself, is not
puffed up."
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Courtesy
"Doth not behave itself un-
seemly."
Unselfishness "Seeketh not her own."
Good Temper" Is not easily provoked."
Guilelessness "Thinketh no evil."
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Sincerity. 'Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but
rejoiceth in the truth."
Patience; kindness; generosity; humility:
courtesy; unselfishness; good temper; guile-
lessness; sincerity-these make up the supreme
gift, the stature of the perfect man. You will
observe that all are in relation to men, in relation
to life, in relation to the known to-day and the
near to-morrow, and not to the unknown
eternity. We hear much of love to God;
Christ spoke much of love to man. We make
a great deal of peace with heaven; Christ made
much of peace on earth Religion is not a
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strange or added thing, but the inspiration of
the secular life, the breathing of an eternal
spirit through this temporal world. The su-
preme thing, in short, is not a thing at all, but
the giving of a further finish to the multitudi-
nous words and acts which make up the sum of
every common day.
There is no time to do more than make a
passing note upon each of these ingredients.
Love is Patience. This is the normal atti-
tude of Love; Love passive, Love waiting to
begin; not in a hurry; calm; ready to do its
work when the summons comes, but meantime
wearing the ornament of a meek and quiet
spirit. Love suffers long; beareth all things;
believeth all things; hopeth all things. For
Love understands, and therefore waits.
Kindness. Love active. Have you ever
noticed how much of Christ's life was spent in
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doing kind things—in merely doing kind things?
Run over it with that in view, and you will find
that He spent a great proportion of His time
simply in making people happy, in doing good
turns to people. There is only one thing
greater than happiness in the world, and that
is holiness; and it is not in our keeping; but
what God has put in our power is the happiness
of those about us, and that is largely to be
secured by our being kind to them.
'The greatest thing," says some one, “a
man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be
kind to some of His other children." I wonder
why it is that we are not all kinder than we
are? How much the world needs it. How
easily it is done. How instantaneously it acts.
How infallibly it is remembered. How super-
abundantly it pays itself back-for there is no
debtor in the world so honourable, so superbly
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honourable, as Love. "Love never faileth."
Love is success, Love is happiness, Love is life.
"Love, I say," with Browning, "is energy of
Life."
"For life, with all it yields of joy or woe
And hope and fear,
Is just our chance o' the prize of learning love,—
How love might be, hath been indeed, and is."
Where Love is, God is. He that dwelleth in
Love dwelleth in God. God is Love. There-
fore love. Without distinction, without calcula-
tion, without procrastination, love. Lavish it
upon the poor, where it is very easy; especially
upon the rich, who often need it most; most of
all upon our equals, where it is very difficult,
and for whom perhaps we each do least of all.
There is a difference between trying to please
and giving pleasure. Give pleasure. Lose no
chance of giving pleasure. For that is the
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ceaseless and anonymous triumph of a truly
loving spirit. "I shall pass through this world
but once. Any good thing therefore that I
can do, or any kindness that I can show to any
human being, let me do it now.
Let me not
defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this
way again."
Generosity. "Love envieth not." This is
love in competition with others. Whenever you
attempt a good work you will find other men
doing the same kind of work, and probably
doing it better. Envy them not. Envy is a
feeling of ill-will to those who are in the
same line as ourselves, a spirit of covetous-
ness and detraction. How little Christian
work even is a protection against un-Christian
feeling. That most despicable of all the un-
worthy moods which cloud a Christian's soul
assuredly waits for us on the threshold of every
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work, unless we are fortified with this grace of
magnanimity. Only one thing truly need the
Christian envy, the large, rich, generous soul
which "envieth not."
And then, after having learned all that, you
have to learn this further thing, Humility—to
put a seal upon your lips and forget what you
have done. After you have been kind, after
Love has stolen forth into the world and done
its beautiful work, go back into the shade again
and say nothing about it. Love hides even
from itself. Love waives even self-satisfaction.
"Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up."
The fifth ingredient is a somewhat strange
one to find in this summum bonum: Courtesy.
This is Love in society, Love in relation to
etiquette. "Love doth not behave itself un-
seemly." Politeness has been defined as love in
trifles. Courtesy is said to be love in little
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things. And the one secret of politeness is to
love. Love cannot behave itself unseemly. You
can put the most untutored persons into the
highest society, and if they have a reservoir of
Love in their heart, they will not behave them-
selves unseemly. They simply cannot do it.
Carlyle said of Robert Burns that there was no
truer gentleman in Europe than the ploughman-
poet. It was because he loved everything-the
mouse, and the daisy, and all the things, great
and small, that God had made. So with this
simple passport he could mingle with any
society, and enter courts and palaces from his
little cottage on the banks of the Ayr. You
know the meaning of the word " gentleman."
It means a gentle man—a man who does
things gently with love. And that is the
whole art and mystery of it. The gentle man
cannot in the nature of things do an ungentle,
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an ungentlemanly thing. The ungentle soul,
the inconsiderate, unsympathetic nature can-
not do anything else. "Love doth not behave
itself unseemly."
Unselfishness. "Love seeketh not her own."
Observe Seeketh .not even that which is her
own. In Britain the Englishman is devoted,
and rightly, to his rights. But there come
times when a man may exercise even the higher
right of giving up his rights. Yet Paul does
not summon us to give up our rights. Love
strikes much deeper. It would have us not
seek them at all, ignore them, eliminate the
personal element altogether from our calcula-
tions. It is not hard to give up our rights.
They are often external. The difficult thing is
to give up ourselves. The more difficult thing
still is not to seek things for ourselves at all.
After we have sought them, bought them, won
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them, deserved them, we have taken the cream
off them for ourselves already. Little cross then
perhaps to give them up. But not to seek them,
to look every man not on his own things, but
on the things of others-id opus est. "Seekest
thou great things for thyself?" said the prophet;
“seek them not." Why? Because there is no
greatness in things. Things cannot be great.
The only greatness is unselfish love. Even
self-denial in itself is nothing, is almost a mis-
take. Only a great purpose or a mightier love
can justify the waste. It is more difficult, I
have said, not to seek our own at all, than,
having sought it, to give it up. I must take
that back. It is only true of a partly selfish
heart. Nothing is a hardship to Love, and----
nothing is hard. I believe that Christ's yoke
is easy. Christ's "yoke is just His way of
taking life. And I believe it is an easier way
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than any other. I believe it is a happier way
than any other. The most obvious lesson in
Christ's teaching is that there is no happiness
in having and getting anything, but only in
giving. I repeat, there is no happiness in having
or in getting, but only in giving. And half the
world is on the wrong scent in the pursuit of
happiness. They think it consists in having
and getting, and in being served by others. It
consists in giving, and in serving others. He
that would be great among you, said Christ, let
him serve. He that would be happy, let him
remember that there is but one way-it is more
blessed, it is more happy, to give than to receive.
The next ingredient is a very remarkable
one: Good Temper. "Love is not easily pro-
voked." Nothing could be more striking than
to find this here. We are inclined to look
upon bad temper as a very harmless weakness.
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We speak of it as a mere infirmity of nature, a
family failing, a matter of temperament, not a
thing to take into very serious account in
estimating a man's character. And yet here,
right in the heart of this analysis of love, it
finds a place; and the Bible again and again
returns to condemn it as one of the most
destructive elements in human nature.
The peculiarity of ill temper is that it is the
vice of the virtuous. It is often the one blot
on an otherwise noble character. You know
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men who are all but perfect, and women who
would be entirely perfect, but for an easily
ruffled, quick-tempered, or "touchy" disposi-
tion. This compatibility of ill temper with high
moral character is one of the strangest and sad-
dest problems of ethics. The truth is there are
two great classes of sins-sins of the Body, and
sins of the Disposition. The Prodigal Son may
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be taken as a type of the first, the Elder Brother
of the second. Now society has no doubt
whatever as to which of these is the worse. Its
brand falls, without a challenge, upon the Pro-
digal. But are we right? We have no balance
to weigh one another's sins, and coarser and
finer are but human words; but faults in the
higher nature may be less venial than those in
the lower, and to the eye of Him who is Love,
a sin against Love may seem a hundred times
more base. No form of vice, not worldliness,
not greed of gold, not drunkenness itself, does
more to un-Christianise society than evil temper.
For embittering life, for breaking up communi-
ties, for destroying the most sacred relationships,
for devastating homes, for withering up men
and women, for taking the bloom off childhood,
in short, for sheer gratuitous misery-producing
power, this influence stands alone. Look at
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the Elder Brother, moral, hard-working, patient,
dutiful-let him get all credit for his virtues—
look at this man, this baby, sulking outside his
own father's door. "He was angry," we read,
"and would not go in." Look at the effect
upon the father, upon the servants, upon the
happiness of the guests. Judge of the effect
upon the Prodigal—and how many prodigals
are kept out of the Kingdom of God by the
unlovely character of those who profess to be
inside? Analyse, as a study in Temper, the
thunder-cloud itself as it gathers upon the Elder
Brother's brow. What is it made of? Jealousy,
anger, pride, uncharity, cruelty, self-righteous-
ness, touchiness, doggedness, sullenness-these
are the ingredients of this dark and loveless
soul. In varying proportions, also, these are the
ingredients of all ill temper. Judge if such sins
of the disposition are not worse to live in, and
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for others to live with, than sins of the body.
Did Christ indeed not answer the question
Himself when He said, "I say unto you, that
the publicans and the harlots go into the King-
dom of Heaven before you." There is really no
place in Heaven for a disposition like this. A
man with such a mood could only make Heaven
miserable for all the people in it. Except,
therefore, such a man be born again, he cannot,
he simply cannot, enter the Kingdom of Heaven.
For it is perfectly certain-and you will not
misunderstand me-that to enter Heaven a
man must take it with him.
You will see then why Temper is significant.
It is not in what it is alone, but in what it re-
veals. This is why I take the liberty now of
speaking of it with such unusual plainness. It
is a test for love, a symptom, a revelation of an
unloving nature at bottom. It is the intermit
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tent fever which bespeaks unintermittent disease
within; the occasional bubble escaping to the
surface which betrays some rottenness under-
neath; a sample of the most hidden products
of the soul dropped involuntarily when off one's
guard; in a word, the lightning form of a hun-
dred hideous and un-Christian sins. For a want
of patience, a want of kindness, a want of gen-
erosity, a want of courtesy, a want of unselfish,
ness, are all instantaneously symbolised in one
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flash of Temper.
Hence it is not enough to deal with the Tem-
per. We must go to the source, and change the
inmost nature, and the angry humours will die
away of themselves. Souls are made sweet
not by taking the acid fluids out, but by putting
something in-a great Love, a new Spirit, the
Spirit of Christ. Christ, the Spirit of Christ,
interpenetrating ours, sweetens, purifies, trans
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forms all. This only can eradicate what is
wrong, work a chemical change, renovate and
regenerate, and rehabilitate the inner man.
Will-power does not change men. Time does
Therefore
not change men. Christ does.
"Let that mind be in you which was also in
Christ Jesus." Some of us have not much
time to lose. Remember, once more, that this
is a matter of life or death. I cannot help
speaking urgently, for myself, for yourselves.
"Whoso shall offend one of these little ones,
which believe in me, it were better for him
that a millstone were hanged about his neck,
and that he were drowned in the depth of the
sea." That is to say, it is the deliberate verdict
of the Lord Jesus that it is better not to live
than not to love. It is better not to live than
not to love.
Guilelessness and Sincerity may be dismissed
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Guilelessness is the grace
almost with a word.
for suspicious people. And the possession of
it is the great secret of personal influence.
You will find, if you think for a moment, that
the people who influence you are people who
believe in you. In an atmosphere of suspicion
men shrivel up; but in that atmosphere they
expand, and find encouragement and educative
fellowship. It is a wonderful thing that here
and there in this hard, uncharitable world there
should still be left a few rare souls who think
no evil. This is the great unworldliness.
Love "thinketh no evil," imputes no motive,
sees the bright side, puts the best construction.
on every action. What a delightful state of
mind to live in! What a stimulus and bene-
diction even to meet with it for a day! To
be trusted is to be saved. And if we try to
influence or elevate others, we shall soon see
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that success is in proportion to their belief of
our belief in them. For the respect of another
is the first restoration of the self-respect a man.
has lost; our ideal of what he is becomes to
him the hope and pattern of what he may
become.
"Love rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth
in the truth." I have called this Sincerity from
the words rendered in the Authorised Version
by "rejoiceth in the truth." And, certainly,
were this the real translation, nothing could be
more just. For he who loves will love Truth not
less than men. He will rejoice in the Truth-
rejoice not in what he has been taught to
believe; not in this Church's doctrine or in
that; not in this ism or in that ism; but "in
the Truth." He will accept only what is real;
he will strive to get at facts; he will search for
Truth with a humble and unbiassed mind, and
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cherish whatever he finds at any sacrifice. But
the more literal translation of the Revised
Version calls for just such a sacrifice for truth's
sake here. For what Paul really meant is, as
we there read, "Rejoiceth not in unrighteous-
ness, but rejoiceth with the truth," a quality
which probably no one English word-and
certainly not Sincerity-adequately defines.
It includes, perhaps more strictly, the self-
restraint which refuses to make capital out of
others' faults; the charity which delights not
in exposing the weakness of others, but "cover-
eth all things;" the sincerity of purpose which
endeavours to see things as they are, and re-
joices to find them better than suspicion feared
or calumny denounced.
So much for the analysis of Love. Now
the business of our lives is to have these
things fitted into our characters. That is the
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supreme work to which we need to address
ourselves in this world, to learn Love. Is life.
not full of opportunities for learning Love?
Every man and woman every day has a
thousand of them. The world is not a play.
ground; it is a schoolroom. Life is not a
holiday, but an education. And the one eternal
lesson for us all is how better we can love. What-
makes a man a good cricketer ? Practice.
What makes a man a good artist, a good
sculptor, a good musician? Practice. What
makes a man a good linguist, a good steno-
grapher? Practice. What makes a man a
good man? Practice. Nothing else. There
is nothing capricious about religion. We do
not get the soul in different ways, under differ-
ent laws, from those in which we get the body
and the mind. If a man does not exercise his
arm he develops no biceps muscle; and if a
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man does not exercise his soul, he acquires no
muscle in his soul, no strength of character, no
vigour of moral fibre, nor beauty of spiritual
growth. Love is not a thing of enthusiastic
emotion. It is a rich, strong, manly, vigorous
expression of the whole round Christian char-
acter-the Christlike nature in its fullest de-
velopment. And the constituents of this great
character are only to be built up by ceaseless
practice.
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What was Christ doing in the carpenter's
shop? Practising. Though perfect, we read
that He learned obedience, and grew in wis-
dom and in favor with God. Do not quarrel
therefore with your lot in life. Do not complain
of its never-ceasing cares, its petty environment,
the vexations you have to stand, the small and
sordid souls you have to live and work with.
Above all, do not resent temptation; do not
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be perplexed because it seems to thicken round
you more and more, and ceases neither for
effort nor for agony nor prayer.
That is your
practice. That is the practice which God
appoints you; and it is having its work in
making you patient, and humble, and generous,
and unselfish, and kind, and courteous. Do
not grudge the hand that is moulding the still
too shapeless image within you. It is growing
more beautiful, though you see it not, and
every touch of temptation may add to its per-
fection. Therefore keep in the midst of life.
Do not isolate yourself. Be among men, and
among things, and among troubles, and diffi
culties, and obstacles. You remember Goethe's
words: Es bildet ein Talent sich in der Stille,
Doch ein Character in dem Strom der Welt.
"Talent develops itself in solitude; character
in the stream of life." Talent develops itself
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in solitude-the talent of prayer, of faith, of
meditation, of seeing the unseen; Character
grows in the stream of the world's life. That
chiefly is where men are to learn love.
How? Now, how? To make it easier, I
have named a few of the elements of love.
But these are only elements. Love itself can
never be defined. Light is a something more.
than the sum of its ingredients-a glowing,
dazzling, tremulous ether. And love i sɔme-
thing more than all its elements-a palpitating,
quivering, sensitive, living thing. By synthesis
of all the colours, men can make whiteness,
they cannot make light. By synthesis of all
the virtues, men can make virtue, they cannot
make love. How then are we to have this
transcendent living whole conveyed into our
souls? We brace our wills to secure it. We
try to copy those who have it. We lay down
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rules about it. We watch. We pray. But
these things alone will not bring Love into our
nature. Love is an effect. And only as we
fulfil the right condition can we have the effect
produced. Shall I tell you what the cause is?
If you turn to the Revised Version of the
First Epistle of John you will find these words:
"We love because He first loved us."
"We
love," not "We love Him." That is the way
the old version has it, and it is quite wrong.
"We love-because He first loved us." Look
at that word "because." It is the cause of
which I have spoken. "Because He first loved
us," the effect follows that we love, we love
Him, we love all men. We cannot help it.
Because He loved us, we love, we love every.
body. Our heart is slowly changed.
Con-
template the love of Christ, and you will love.
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acter, and you will be changed into the same
image from tenderness to tenderness. There
is no other way. You cannot love to order.
You can only look at the lovely object, and fall
in love with it, and grow into likeness to it.
And so look at this Perfect Character, this
Perfect Life. Look at the great Sacrifice as
He laid down Himself, all through life, and upon
the Cross of Calvary; and you must love Him.
And loving Him, you must become like Him.
Love begets love. It is a process of induction.
Put a piece of iron in the presence of an electri-
fied body, and that piece of iron for a time
becomes electrified. It is changed into a tem-
porary magnet in the mere presence of a per-
manent magnet, and as long as you leave the
two side by side, they are both magnets alike.
Remain side by side with Him who loved us,
and gave Himself for us, and you too will be-
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come a permanent magnet, a permanently
attractive force; and like Him you will draw
all men unto you, like Him you will be drawn
unto all men. That is the inevitable effect
of Love. Any man who fulfils that cause
must have that effect produced in him. Try to
give up the idea that religion comes to us by
chance, or by mystery, or by caprice. It comes
to us by natural law, or by supernatural law,
for all law is Divine. Edward Irving went to
see a dying boy once, and when he entered the
room he just put his hand on the sufferer's
head, and said, "My boy, God loves you," and
went away. And the boy started from his bed,
and called out to the people in the house, "God
loves me! God loves me!" It changed that boy.
The sense that God loved him overpowered
him, melted him down, and began the creating
of a new heart in him. And that is how the
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love of God melts down the unlovely heart in
man, and. begets in him the new creature, who
is patient and humble and gentle and unselfish.
And there is no other way to get it. There is
no mystery about it. We love others, we love
everybody, we love our enemies, because He
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THE DEFENCE
Now I have a closing sentence or two to add
about Paul's reason for singling out love as the
supreme possession. It is a very remarkable
reason. In a single word it is this: it lasts.
"Love," urges Paul, "never faileth." Then he
begins again one of his marvellous lists of the
great things of the day, and exposes them one
by one. He runs over the things that men
thought were going to last, and shows that they
are all fleeting, temporary, passing away.
"Whether there be prophecies, they shall
fail." It was the mother's ambition for her boy
in those days that he should become a prophet.
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For hundreds of years God had never spoken
by means of any prophet, and.. that time
the prophet was greater than the King. Men
waited wistfully for another messenger to come,
and hung upon his lips when he appeared as
upon the very voice of God.
Paul says,
"Whether there be prophecies, they shall fail.”
This Book is full of prophecies. One by one
they have "failed"; that is, having been ful-
filled their work is finished; they have nothing
more to do now in the world except to feed a
devout man's faith.
Then Paul talks about tongues. That was
another thing that was greatly coveted.
"Whether there be tongues, they shall cease."
As we all know, many, many centuries have
passed since tongues have been known in this
world. They have ceased. Take it in any
sense you like. Take it, for illustration merely,
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as languages in general-a sense which was not
in Paul's mind at all, and which though it can-
not give us the specific lesson will point the
general truth. Consider the words in which
these chapters were written-Greek. It has
gone. Take the Latin-the other great tongue
of those days. It ceased long ago. Look at
the Indian language. It is ceasing. The
language of Wales, of Ireland, of the Scottish
Highlands is dying before our eyes. The most
popular book in the English tongue at the
present time, except the Bible, is one of
Dickens's works, his Pickwick Papers. It is
largely written in the language of London
street-life; and experts assure us that in fifty
years it will be unintelligible to the average
English reader.
Then Paul goes farther, and with even
greater boldness adds, "Whether there be
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Bradford's "ates f
knowledge, it shall vanish away." The wisdom
of the ancients, where is it? It is wholly gone.
A schoolboy to-day knows more than Sir Isaac
Newton knew. His knowledge has vanished
away. You put yesterday's newspaper in the
fire. Its knowledge has vanished away. You
buy the old editions of the great encyclopædias
for a few pence. Their knowledge has vanished.
away. Look how the coach has been super-
seded by the use of steam. Look how elec-
tricity has superseded that, and swept a hundred
almost new inventions into oblivion. One of
the greatest living authorities, Sir William
Thompson, said the other day, "The steam-
engine is passing away.” "Whether there be
knowledge, it shall vanish away." At every
workshop you will see, in the back yard, a heap
of old iron, a few wheels, a few levers, a few
cranks, broken and eaten with rust. Twenty
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years ago that was the pride of the city. Men
flocked in from the country to see the great
invention; now it is superseded, its day is done.
And all the boasted science and philosophy of
this day will soon be old. But yesterday, in
the University of Edinburgh, the greatest figure
in the faculty was Sir James Simpson, the
discoverer of chloroform. The other day his
successor and nephew, Professor Simpson, was
asked by the librarian of the University to go
to the library and pick out the books on his
subject that were no longer needed. And his
reply to the librarian was this: "Take every
text-book that is more than ten years old, and
put it down in the cellar." Sir James Simpson
was a great authority only a few years ago:
men came from all parts of the earth to consult
him; and almost the whole teaching of that
time is consigned by the science of to-day to
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oblivion. And in every branch of science it is
the same.
"Now we know in part. We see
through a glass darkly."
Can you tell me anything that is going to
last? Many things Paul did not condescend
to name. He did not mention money, fortune,
fame; but he picked out the great things of his
time, the things the best men thought had
something in them, and brushed them peremp-
torily aside. Paul had no charge against these
things in themselves. All he said about them
was that they would not last. They were great
things, but not supreme things. There were
things beyond them. What we are stretches
past what we do, beyond what we possess.
Many things that men denounce as sins are not
sins; but they are temporary. And that is a
favourite argument of the New Testament.
John says of the world, not that it is wrong,
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but simply that it "passeth away." There is a
great deal in the world that is delightful and
beautiful; there is a great deal in it that is
great and engrossing; but it will not last. All
that is in the world, the lust of the eye, the lust
of the flesh, and the pride of life, are but for
a little while. Love not the world therefore.
Nothing that it contains is worth the life and
consecration of an immortal soul. The im-
mortal soul must give itself to something that
is immortal. And the only immortal things
are these: "Now abideth faith, hope, love, but
the greatest of these is love."
Some think the time may come when two
of these three things will also pass away-faith
into sight, hope into fruition. Paul does not
say so.
We know but little now about the
conditions of the life that is to come. But
what is certain is that Love must last. God,
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the Eternal God, is Love. Covet therefore
that everlasting gift, that one thing which it is
certain is going to stand, that one coinage
which will be current in the Universe when
all the other coinages of all the nations of
the world shall be useless and unhonoured.
You will give yourselves to many things, give
yourselves first to Love. Hold things in their
proportion. Hold things in their proportion.
Let at least the first great object of our lives.
be to achieve the character defended in these
words, the character-and it is the character
of Christ-which is built round Love.
I have said this thing is eternal. Did you
ever notice how continually John associates
love and faith with eternal life? I was not
told when I was a boy that "God so loved the
world that He gave His only begotten Son,
that whosoever believeth in Him should have
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everlasting life." What I was told, I remember,
was, that God so loved the world that, if I
trusted in Him, I was to have a thing called
peace, or I was to have rest, or I was to have
joy, or I was to have safety. But I had to
find out for myself that whosoever trusteth in
Him--that is, whosoever loveth Him, for trust
is only the avenue to Love-hath everlasting
life. The Gospel offers a man life. Never
offer men a thimbleful of Gospel. Do not
offer them merely joy, or merely peace, or
merely rest, or merely safety; tell them how
Christ came to give men a more abundant life
than they have, a life abundant in love, and
therefore abundant in salvation for themselves,
and large in enterprise for the alleviation and
redemption of the world. Then only can the
Gospel take hold of the whole of a man, body,
soul, and spirit, and give to each part of his
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nature its exercise and reward. Many of the
current Gospels are addressed only to a part of
man's nature. They offer peace, not life; faith,
not Love; justification, not regeneration. And
men slip back again from such religion because
it has never really held them. Their nature
was not all in it. It offered no deeper and
gladder life-current than the life that was lived
before. Surely it stands to reason that only a
fuller love can compete with the love of the world.
To love abundantly is to live abundantly,
and to love for ever is to live for ever. Hence,
eternal life is inextricably bound up with love.
We want to live for ever for the same reason
that we want to live to-morrow. Why do you
want to live to-morrow? It is because there
is some one who loves you, and whom you
want to see to-morrow, and be with, and love
back. There is no other reason why we should
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live on than that we love and are beloved. It
is when a man has no one to love him that he
commits suicide. So long as he has friends,
those who love him and whom he loves, he will
live; because to live is to love. Be it but the
love of a dog, it will keep him in life; but let
that go and he has no contact with life, no
reason to live. He dies by his own hand.
Eternal life also is to know God, and God is
love. This is Christ's own definition. Ponder
it. "This is life eternal, that they might
know Thee the only true God, and Jesus
Christ whom Thou has sent." Love must
be eternal. It is what God is. On the last
analysis, then, love is life. Love never faileth,
and life never faileth, so long as there is love.
That is the philosophy of what Paul is showing
us; the reason why in the nature of things
Love should be the supreme thing-because it
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is going to last; because in the nature of things
it is an Eternal Life. It is a thing that we are
living now, not that we get when we die; that
we shall have a poor chance of getting when
we die unless we are living now.
No worse
fate can befall a man in this world than to live
and grow old alone, unloving, and unloved. To
be lost is to live in an unregenerate condition,
loveless and unloved; and to be saved is to
love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth
already in God. For God is love.
Now I have all but finished. How many
of you will join me in reading this chapter once
a week for the next three months? A man
did that once and it changed his whole life.
Will you do it? It is for the greatest thing in
the world. You might begin by reading it
every day, especially the verses which describe
the perfect character. "Love suffereth long,
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and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth
not itself." Get these ingredients into your
life. Then everything that you do is eternal.
It is worth doing. It is worth giving time to.
No man can become a saint in his sleep; and to
fulfil the condition required demands a certain
amount of prayer and meditation and time, just
as improvement in any direction, bodily or
mental, requires preparation and care. Address
yourselves to that one thing; at any cost have
this transcendent character exchanged for yours.
You will find as you look back upon your life
that the moments that stand out, the moments
when you have really lived, are the moments
when you have done things in a spirit of love.
As memory scans the past, above and beyond all
the transitory pleasures of life, there leap for-
ward those supreme hours when you have been
enabled to do unnoticed kindnesses to those
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round about you, things too trifling to speak
about, but which you feel have entered into
your eternal life. I have seen almost all the
beautiful things God has made; I have enjoyed
almost every pleasure that He has planned for
man; and yet as I look back I see standing
out above all the life that has gone four or five
short experiences when the love of God reflected
itself in some poor imitation, some small act of
love of mine, and these seem to be the things
which alone of all one's life abide. Everything
else in all our lives is transitory. Every other
good is visionary. But the acts of love which
no man knows about, or can ever know about
-they never fail.
In the Book of Matthew, where the Judg.
ment Day is depicted for us in the imagery of
One seated upon a throne and dividing the
sheep from the goats, the test of a man then is
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not, "How have I believed?" but "How have
I loved?" The test of religion, the final test
of religion, is not religiousness, but Love. I
say the final test of religion at that great Day
is not religiousness, but Love; not what I have
done, not what I have believed, not what I
have achieved, but how I have discharged the
common charities of life. Sins of commission
in that awful indictment are not even referred
By what we have not done, by sins of omis-
sion, we are judged. It could not be otherwise.
For the withholding of love is the negation of
the spirit of Christ, the proof that we never
knew Him, that for us He lived in vain. It
means that He suggested nothing in all our
thoughts, that He inspired nothing in all our
lives, that we were not once near enough to
Him to be seized with the spell of His compas
sion for the world. It means that-
to.
FORCE
or
IN THE WORLD.
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"I lived for myself, I thought for myself,
For myself, and none beside-
Just as if Jesus had never lived,
As if He had never died."
It is the Son of Man before whom the
nations of the world shall be gathered. It is
in the presence of Humanity that we shall
be charged. And the spectacle itself, the
mere sight of it, will silently judge each one.
Those will be there whom we have met and
helped; or there, the unpitied multitude whom
we neglected or despised. No other Witness
need be summoned. No other charge than love-
lessness shall be preferred. Be not deceived.
The words which all of us shall one Day hear
sound not of theology but of life, not of churches
and saints but of the hungry and the poor, not
of creeds and doctrines but of shelter and
clothing, not of Bibles and prayer-books but of
64 THE GREATEST THING IN THE WOrld.
NATURE'S DUMB NOBILITY
KINDNES
cups of cold water in the name of Christ.
Thank God the Christianity of to-day is coming
nearer the world's need. Live to help that on.
Thank God men know better, by a hairsbreadth,
what religion is, what God is, who Christ is,
where Christ is. Who is Christ? He who fed
the hungry, clothed the naked, visited the sick.
And where is Christ? Where?-whoso shall
receive a little child in My name receiveth Me.
And who are Christ's? Every one that loveth
is born of God.

BANDUT MERCY
M.S.P.CA
GLORY
JUSTICE
TO
MERCY
GOOD WILD PO ALLA
ALL
"Among the noblest in the land,
Though he may count himself the least,
That man I honor and revere,
Who, without favor, without fear,
In the great city dares to stand
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The friend of every friendless beast.”
[Longfellow.
Band of Mercy Pledge.
I will try to be kind and merciful to
all living creatures, and will try to per-
suade others to be the samé.
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