Excerpt from St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans

God forbid that any words that ever drop from my lips should seem to cast the smallest shadow of doubt on that great truth, God so loved the world that He gave His Son!' But God forbid, equally, that any words of mine should seem to favour the, to me, . Repellent idea that the infinite love of God disregards the character of the man on whom it falls. There are manifestations of that loving heart which any man can receive, and each man gets as much of the love of God as it is possible to pour upon him. But granite rock does not drink in the dew as a ¿ower does, and the nature of the man on whom God's love falls deter mines how much, and what manner of its manifesta tions shall pass into his true possession, and what Shall remain without.

So, on the whole, we have to answer the questions, Does God love any? Does not God love all? Does God specially love some with the one monosyllable, Yes.

And so, dear brethren, let us learn the path by which we can pass into that blessed community of those on whom the fullness and sweetness and tenderest tender ness of the Father's heart will fall. If a man love Me, he will keep My words, and My Father will love him.' Myths tell us that the light which, at the beginning, had been diffused through a nebulous mass, was next gathered into a sun. So the universal love of God is concentrated in Jesus Christ, and if we have Him we have it, and if we have faith we have Him, and can say, 'neither life, nor death, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.'

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