CCLXXX. Love to God.
1 JOHN iv. 19. “We love Him, because He first loved us.” THINGS are always safe and happy when we put God in His right place as a Father, and as such taking the initia- tive of everything in love….
CCLXXIX. God is Love.
1 JOHN iv. 16. “God is love.” IT is seldom that a principle or law is equally beautiful and powerful. What is beautiful is often weak; what is power- ful is often harsh and repulsive. Love is the most beautiful…
CCLXXVIII. Lovyig One Another.
1 JOHN iv. 11. ” Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another.” THIS word “beloved” reveals the heart of the writer. This term of endearment, and indeed all kindred terms, were either created or…
CCLXXVII. The Tolerance and Intolerance of the Gospel.
1 JOHN iv. 3, 7. “And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not ofGod. Beloved, let us love one another.” WE have here a motto of true dogmatism as well as true…
CCLXXVI. Our Advocate.
1 JOHN ii. 1. “My little children, these things write I unto you, that ye sin not. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” JOHN writes this Epistle to those whom…
CCLXXV. The Joyfulness of a Christian Life.
1 JOHN i. 4. “And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.” EVERYWHERE we turn in life, we see the law illustrated— that, in proportion to the moral susceptibility to any object of pursuit or…
CCLXXIV. The Promise of His Coming.
2 PET. iii. 4. “Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.” ST. PETER here describes what would be thought and said in…
CCLXXIII. God Calling us by His Glory and Virtue.
2 PET. i. 3. “According as His Divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of Him that hath called us to glory and virtue.” THE thought of God that is…
CCLXXII. The Burden of Care.
1 PET. v. 7. “Casting all your care upon Him; for He careth for you.” I. WHAT is care? It is not sorrow, not extreme desolation, not sharpness of anguish. It is a weight on humanity like a dark cloud…
CCLXXI. Humility and its Reward.
1 PET. v. 6. “Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time.” I. THE kind of suffering which the text represents is that from which there is no present escape. Peter…