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

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air we' breathe is full of love, and we can breathe it in
as we breathe.
lt Hows into the body by means of the nerves in vibratory
waves,
and comes into the consciousness in thrills
of ravishing pleasure.
We see it in the sunshine, in the beautiful vivifying
rain, which together causes to spring up on every hand
vegetation of every kind, every leaf of which breathes
out life-giving oxygen, taking up in exchange the vilest
refuse from earth and air, and clothing the face of
nature with flowers and fruits.
"This spontaneous outpouring
of love is the most marked of the Divine attributes,
the love that gives everything and asks nothing.
Pure love brought the universe into being, pure love
maintains it, and draws it upward toward bliss." And
when we kvww the
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KNOWLEDGE-SURPASSING LOVE OF CHRIST,
that we become rooted and grounded in the Divine
love, then we begin to pour out love on all who need it,
making no difference, seeking no return. For the spirit
of Jesus ever seeks to do good to them who cannot recompense;
who can do nothing in return. Jesus _says, "Do
good and lend, hoping for nothing again; not only to
those who cannot recompense you, but to those who hate
you, and thus overcome evil with good. James Naylor,
the Quaker, after being whipt and pilloried, and branded,
and his tongue burned with a red hot iron, only two
hours before his death, thus describes the spirit of love.
"There isaspirit which I feel,
that delights to do no
evil, nor to avenge any wrong, but delights to endure all
things, in hope to enjoy its own at the end; its hope is to
outlive all wrath and contention, and to weary out all
exaltation and cruelty or whatever is of anature contrary
to itself. It sees to the end of all temptations, as it
bears no evil in itself, so it conceives none in thought to