ften succeeds with their children.

The idea that God does not love us often comes from false teaching.
Mothers make a mistake in teaching children that God does not love
them when they do wrong; but only when they do right. That is not
taught in Scripture. You do not teach your children that when they do
wrong you hate them. Their wrong-doing does not change your love to
hate; if it did, you would change your love a great many times.
Because your child is fretful, or has committed some act of
disobedience, you do not cast him out as though he did not belong to
you! No! he is still your child; and you love him. And if men have
gone astray from God it does not follow that He hates _them_. It is
the sin that He hates.

I believe the reason why a great many people think God does not love
them is because they are measuring God by their own small rule, from
their own standpoint. We love men as long as we consider them worthy
of our love; when they are not we cast them off. It is not so with
God. There is a vast difference between human love and Divine love.

In Ephesians iii. 18, we are told of the breadth, and length, and
depth, and height, of God's love. Many of us think we know something
of God's love; but centuries hence we shall admit we have never found
out much about it. Columbus discovered America; but what did he know
about its great lakes, rivers, forests, and the Mississippi Valley?
He died, without knowing much about what he had discovered. So, many
of us have discovered something of the love of God; but there are
heights, depths and lengths of it we do not know. That Love is a
great ocean; and we require to plunge into it before we really know
anything of it. It is said of a Roman Catholic Archbishop of Paris,
that when he was thrown into prison and condemned to be shot, a
little while before he was led out to die, he saw a window in his
cell in the shape of a cross. Upon the top of the cross he wrote
"height," at the bottom "depth," and at the end of each arm "length."
He had experienced the truth conveyed in the hymn--

"When I survey the wondrous Cross,
On which the Prince of Glory died."

When we wish to know the love of God we should go to Calvary. Can we
look upon that scene, and say God did not love us? That cross speaks
of the love of God. Greater love never has been taught than that
which the cross teaches. What prompted God to give up Christ?--what
prompted Christ to die?--if it were not lo