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, 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
unhonored. You will give yourself to many things, give yourself
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 he 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
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 a life. Never offer a man a thimbleful of