Tradition says that when they carried Saint John for the last time into the church, he lifted up his feeble hands to the listening congregation, and said “Little children, love one another.” The words are echoing yet throughout the world.

More precious and important even than faith is heavenly love. Without it faith must ultimately wither. Many of God’s most powerful workers after a time lose their power because they lose the spirit of love. This is the crowning grace of Christian character. It has a thousand shades, and it is in the finer touches that its glory consists. Every new experience of life is but a school to learn some lesson of love. Let us not try to expel our teachers. Let us welcome them and so learn the lesson, that they may soon pass on and leave us to make new advances.

If mountains can be removed by faith is there less power in love?

The immense arms from either side of the Forth Bridge had been completed; slowly and steadily they had been built out; all that was now needed at the center of the mighty arch was the final riveting.

The day fixed was cold and chilly, and cold contracts metals. In spite of fires set under the iron to expand it the inch or two required, the union could not be completed and the day’s program was a failure.

But the next day the sun rose bright; under its genial warmth the iron expanded, the holes came opposite each other, and the riveters had nothing to do but drive the binding bolts home.

Love unbinds others by its bonds.

Love through me, Love of God, There is no love in me, O Fire of love, light thou the love, That burns perpetually.

Flow through me, Peace of God, Calm river, flow until No wind can blow, no current stir A ripple of self-will.

Shine through me, Joy of God, Make me like Thy clear air Which Thou dost pour Thy colors thro’ As though it were not there.

O blessed Love of God, That all may taste and see How good Thou art, once more I pray: Love through me, even me.

A. W. C.

Love never faileth!

There remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.

Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

Be ye therefore perfect.—Giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge; and to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness; and to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment.

Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit.

There remaineth . . . a rest for the people of God.—Thine eyes shall see the king in his beauty: they shall behold the land that is very far off.