hn. The longing for friendship and the unrest
of loneliness are proof of a truly human and social nature.

_In how far is a need for others a sign of strength or of weakness?_

_What connection has the spirit of a team, or the loyalty of a college
class, with the Christian law of love?_

Third Day: Restoring Solidarity

Then came Peter and said to him, Lord, how oft shall my brother
sin against me, and I forgive him? until seven times? Jesus saith
unto him, I say not unto thee, Until seven times; but, Until
seventy times seven.--Matt. 18:21-22.

Love binds together; hate and anger cut apart. They destroy fellowship.
Therefore the chief effort of the Christian spirit must be to reestablish
fellowship wherever men have been sundered by ill-will. This is done by
confession and forgiveness. Forgiveness was so important to Jesus because
social unity was so important to him. In the Lord's Prayer he makes full
fellowship with men a condition of full fellowship with God: "Forgive us
our debts, as we have forgiven our debtors."

Are there any personal injuries which are beyond forgiveness?

_Think back to any striking experience of forgiving or being forgiven.
What was the religious and moral reaction on your life?_

Fourth Day: The Christian Intensification of Love

Hereby know we love, because he laid down his life for us: and we
ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. But whoso hath the
world's goods, and beholdeth his brother in need, and shutteth up
his compassion from him, how doth the love of God abide in him? My
little children, let us not love in word, neither with the tongue;
but in deed and truth.--1 John 3:16-18.

Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every
one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God. He that
loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. Herein was the love
of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son
into the world that we might live through him.--1 John 4:7-9.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No
man hath beheld God at any time: if we love one another, God
abideth in us, and his love is perfected in us.--1 John 4:11-12.

These are quotations from one of the early Christian writings. They are
evidence of the emphasis put on love as a distinctive doctrine of the new
religion. Note how the natural social instinct of hum