Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

1916 DIVINE LOVE 17
mountains, and have not charity [love], Iam nothing."
(I Cor. xiii. 1, 2.) All other attainments will not avail
unless we have them baptized in the fount of Love, which
is the fire of the living God.
And why is this?
Because we are striving to enter the
spiritual kingdom of God, the kingdom of love; and unless
the soul of man ascends up to the Father of its own
volition, with an abandonment of self, and lovingly clings
to the Holy Spirit, even as as a bride deeply in love with
her husband yearns after him and is delighted
his presence, he will not be able
when in
to endure to the end.
Such a principle of love active in man is stronger than
death, and reaches out thu all eternity.
How beautifully
has the Divine Parent implanted this principle in his creation
of all life, positive and negative, masculine and
feminine-from the weakest manifestation of it unto the
strongest, an irresistible power. So we are reminded of
this love when Our Husband in the heavens, YAHVEH of
Hosts, says to his bride, "I will be your power."
Have the so-called Christian churches manifested this
principle of love in there life as a body? We think not; for
whence came all their wars, their opposition one to another,
and their fierce struggles for supremacy?
And if
one of their number differed from them in their leadings
in their way of thinking, would they throw their arms
of love around him? No! rather they would cast him off
as a heretic for daring to differ with them; or else they
give him the cold shoulder (as we say,) even the shoulder
of Death. God's dear people whom he intends to fashion
in
his image, and after his likeness have become thru
their ignorance, fanatics, hypocritically pius, intolerant,
condemnatory, dissectors of one ancther's faults, uncharitable
and unkind. Where! Oh, Where! is the beautiful
spirit of love?
God grant that his dear people may become
enlightened in the basic principles of his kingdom