feelings with which they regard the Father God. 'He that hath seen Me
hath seen the Father.' 'He that hath loved Me hath loved the Father.'
'He that hath hated Me hath hated the Father.' An ugly word--a word
that a great many of us think far too severe and harsh to be applied
to men who simply are indifferent to the divine love. Some say, 'I am
conscious of no hatred. I do not pretend to be a Christian, but I do
not hate God. Take the ordinary run of people round about us in the
world; if you say God is not in all their thoughts, I agree with you;
but if you say that they _hate_ God, I do not believe it.'

Well, what do you think the fact that men go through their days and
weeks and months and years, and have not God in all their thoughts,
indicates as to the central feeling of their hearts towards God?
Granted that there is not actual antagonism, because there is no
thought at all, do you think it would be possible for a man who loved
God to go on for a twelvemonth and never think of, or care to please,
or desire to be near, the object that he loved? And inasmuch as, deep
down at the bottom of our moral being, there is no such thing
possible as indifference and a perfect equipoise in reference to God,
it is clear enough, I think, that--although the word must not be
pressed as if it meant conscious and active antagonism,--where there
is no love there is hate.

If a man does not love God as He is revealed to him in Jesus Christ,
he neither cares to please Him nor to think about Him, nor does he
order his life in obedience to His commands. And if it be true that
obedience is the very life-breath of love, disobedience or non-
obedience is the manifestation of antagonism, and antagonism towards
God is the same thing as hate.