Observation: Where the heart is right the conduct will be right. Love will soften the tones, will instinctively teach what we ought to be and do, will take the bitterness out of opposition and diversity, will make even rebuke, when needful, only a form of expressing itself. If the heart be right all else will be right, and if there be a deficiency of love nothing will be right. You cannot help anybody except on condition of having an honest, beneficent, and benevolent regard towards him. You cannot do any man in the world any good unless there is a shoot of love in your heart towards him. You may pitch him benefits, and you will neither get nor deserve thanks for them. You may try to teach him and your words will be hopeless and profitless. The one thing that is required to bind Christian men together is this common affection. That being there, everything will come. It is the germ out of which all is developed. As we read in that great chapter to the Corinthians-the lyric praise of Charity,-all kinds of blessing and sweetness and gladness come out of this, It is the central force which, being present, secures that all shall be right, which, being absent, ensures that all shall be wrong.
Prayer: Our Father who art in Heaven we want to thank you for letting us see one more day. Our Father without you we would be nothing and we thank you for everything you have done for us and for all of the things you will do for us. You said we have to love each other as we would love ourselves and we ask in your name for us to love each other as you loved your Son, Amen
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