Love: The Greatest Thing in the World




Every one has asked himself the great question 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
wrong. If we have been told that, we may miss the mark. In the
13th chapter of I Corinthians, Paul takes us to


Christianity at its source;


and there we see, "the greatest of these is love."

It is not an oversight. 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,