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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V. PERFECTION. ' Hail, holy love! thou word that sums all bliss, Gives and receives all bliss, fullest when most Thou giv'st! spring head of all felicity, Deepest when most is drawn 1 emblem of Clod ! O'erflowing most when greatest numbers drink. Essence that binds the uncreated Three, Chain that unites creation to its Lord, Centre to which all being gravitates, Eternal, ever growing, happy love! Enduring all, hoping, forgiving all; Instead of law, fulfilling every law; Entirely blest, because thou seek'st no more ; Hopest not, nor fearest; but on the present livest, And bold'st perfection smiling in thy arms.' PoLLOK. An aged mother in Israel was once asked by a minister how long she had been in the way to heaven. She replied, ' Seventy five years.' If I mistake not, she was then approaching ninety. ' Seventy five years!' said the astonished minister. ' Then surely you have much to say about religion.' The Christian mother replied, ' All I have to say about it, sir, is, It is nothing but Love pure love to God and man.' That one word contains volumes. The sum and substance of our holy religion is ' Love.' That one thing contains every fraction of it that one word expresses the whole of it. Love which loves God ! Love which loves mankind all mankind ! Love which obeys God in all things ! Love which strives to benefit mankind at all times. Jehovah Jesus, let my religion be Love. ' The sweetest boon, the word that sums all bliss! The sparkling cream of all Time's blessedness! The silken down of happiness complete!' ' The heaven of heavens is love in the heart.' Perfect Love is practical. Love is far from being a solitary hermit who creeps away into some secluded corner of the earth or other, for fear of beholding the sad condition of wretched men, and ...
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