graces spoken of in the sixth chapter, and of the
nine different graces Paul puts love at the head of the list; love is
the first thing--the first in that precious cluster of fruit. Some one
has put it in this way: that all the other eight can be put in the
word love. Joy is love exulting; peace is love in repose; long
suffering is love on trial; gentleness is love in society; goodness is
love in action; faith is love on the battlefield; meekness is love at
school; and temperance is love in training. So it is love all the way;
love at the top; love at the bottom, and all the way along down these
graces; and if we only just brought forth the fruit of the Spirit,
what a world we would have; there would be no need of any policemen; a
man could leave his overcoat around without some one stealing it; men
would not have any desire to do evil. Says Paul, "Against such there
is no law;" you don't need any law. A man who is full of the Spirit
don't need to be put under law; don't need any policemen to watch him.
We could dismiss all our policemen; the lawyers would have to give up
practicing law, and the courts would not have any business.

THE TRIUMPHS OF HOPE.

In the fifteenth chapter of Romans, thirteenth verse, the Apostle
says: "Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in
believing, that you may abound in hope through the power of the Holy
Ghost." The next thing then is hope.

Did you ever notice this, that no man or woman is ever used by God to
build up His kingdom who has lost hope? Now, I have been observing
this throughout different parts of the country, and wherever I have
found a worker in God's vineyard who has lost hope, I have found a man
or woman not very useful. Now, just look at these workers. Let your
mind go over the past for a moment. Can you think of a man or woman
whom God has used to build His kingdom who has lost hope? I don't know
of any; I never heard of such an one. It is very important to have
hope in the Church; and it is the work of the Holy Ghost to impart
hope. Let Him come into some of the churches where there have not been
any conversions for a few years, and let Him convert a score of
people, and see how hopeful the Church becomes at once. He imparts
hope; a man filled with the Spirit of God will be very hopeful. He
will be looking out into the future, and he knows that it is all
bright, because the God of all grace is able to do great things. So it
is very important that we