'
I said, 'Boys, put down your rifles, we will go home.' I couldn't
kill you after that."
God was working in each of them, in His own way carrying out His
will. God keeps his people and guides them and without Him life
is but a living death.
III.
The third element in life about which I wish to speak is LOVE.
In this picture we notice the delicate sense of companionship,
brought out by the young man and the young woman. It matters not
whether they are brother and sister, or lover and loved; there
you have the idea of friendship, the final ingredient in our life,
after the two I have named. If the man or the woman had been
standing in that field alone it would have been incomplete.
Love is the divine element in life, because "God is love." "He
that loveth is born of God," therefore, as some one has said, let
us "keep our friendships in repair." Let us cultivate the spirit
of friendship, and let the love of Christ develop it into a great
love, not only for our friends, but for all humanity. Wherever
you go and whatever you do, your work will be a failure unless you
have this element in your life.
These three things go far toward forming a well-rounded life. Some
of us may not have these ingredients in their right proportion,
but if you are lacking in one or the other of them, then pray for
it and work for it that your life may be rounded and complete as
God intended it should be.
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