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November 11


The Winsomeness of Love

“God loves you and I love you,” says Mr. M'All to the poor people he would lift up. There is little use in telling people the first part of this message if we cannot tell them also the second part, or at least make them see it in our face, in our words and acts, in our true, tireless interest in them. The love of Christ must throb in our own hearts, and shine in our eyes, and speak in our words, and offer itself again on the cross in our lives, in our efforts to save others, if we would win souls for heaven. We must love the people we would win. We must have some conception of the infinite value of the lives we try to save in order that we may love them. Without this we cannot deeply and truly care for those whom sin has stripped of beauty. But if we understand their real worth and the possibilities there are in their lives, it will not be hard for us to love even the farthest away from God.

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