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, 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 fulfill 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 forward those supreme hours when you have been enabled
to do unnoticed kindnesses to those round about you, things too
trifling to speak about, but which you feel have entered into your
eternal life.
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