ut of pure love; if
a mother shows by her actions that it is pure love that prompts her
advising her boy to lead a different life, not a selfish love, but
that it is for the glory of God, it won't be long before that mother's
influence will be felt by that boy, and he will begin to think about
this matter, because true love touches the heart quicker than anything
else.

POWER OF LOVE.

Love is the badge that Christ gave His disciples. Some put on one sort
of badge and some another. Some put on a strange kind of dress, that
they may be known as Christians, and some put on a crucifix, or
something else, that they may be known as Christians. But love is the
only badge by which the disciples of our Lord Jesus Christ are known.
"By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye have love
one toward another."

Therefore, though a man stand before an audience and speak with the
eloquence of a Demosthenes, or of the greatest living orator, if there
is no love back of his words, it is like sounding brass and a tinkling
cymbal. I would recommend all Christians to read the thirteenth
chapter of First Corinthians constantly, abiding in it day and night,
not spending a night or a day there, but just go in there and spend
all our time--summer and winter, twelve months in the year, then the
power of Christ and Christianity would be felt as it never has been in
the history of the world. See what this chapter says:

"Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not
charity, I am become _as_ sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal. And
though I have _the gift_ of prophecy, and understand all mysteries,
and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove
mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing."

A great many are praying for faith; they want extraordinary faith;
they want remarkable faith. They forget that love exceeds faith. The
CHARITY spoken of in the above verses, is LOVE, the fruit of the
Spirit, the great motive-power of life. What the Church of God needs
to-day is love--more love to God and more love to our fellow-men. If
we love God more, we will love our fellow-men more. There is no doubt
about that. I used to think that I should like to have lived in the
days of the prophets; that I should like to have been one of the
prophets, to prophesy, and to see the beauties of heaven and describe
them to men; but, as I understand the Scriptures now, I would a good
deal rather live