The Pastor's Bequest: Selections From the Sermons of Rev. Henry Bacon
The Pastor's Bequest: Selections From the Sermons of Rev. Henry Bacon
Henry Bacon
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And this suggests the fourth reason why Charity is to be esteemed the greatest of great things, and that is. It is the fulfilment of the Law. This is not said of Faith ; it is never said of Hope ; but it is said of Charity or Love. Faith without Love cannot work, for Faith worketh by Love. Hope without Love is selfish, and nothing selfish is Christian ; and therefore Love is the grand essential. There is no duty in which Love does not have a part. It is the only power by which we can act as God... acts — for to Him does not belong Faith, and he cannot be said to Hope, but the whole universe and the Holy Scriptures are eloquent with the truth that He loves. " We love Him," said John, for himself and his fellow believers, " because He first loved us. Digitized byGoogk THE GREATNESS OP CHARITY. 197 BeloVed, if God so loved us, how ought we to love one another !" " God is Love " — heaven sings it — earth repeats it, and the sea has no other meaning in its roU,— ** Tis nature's wild, unconscious song, O'er thousand waves that floats along." He that wishes to do something as God does all things has only this to do — exercise a pure love — an enduring, an edifying, a will-swaying love.
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