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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Jan 24, 1907

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 84, No. 4.

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Love

By P. Giddings

“God is love.” In that fact is the seed-idea of all the other manifestations of God. As Christ is the fulness of the Godhead bodily, so is love the fulness of all those other attributes. As in an egg is included feathers, flesh, blood, and bones, and in a seed is comprehended root, trunk with its bark, branches, leaves, and fruit differentiating and yet alike, so in love is folded and by it unfolded all the possibilities of divinity.
It is therefore the fulfilment of all things in heaven and in earth. It is the fulfilment of the law.
“The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance.”
Love.
Joy is love in ecstasy.
Peace is love at rest.
Long-suffering is love in pain.
Gentleness is love in thoughtfulness.
Goodness is love in deeds.
Faith is love in hope.
Meekness is love at Jesus’ feet.
Temperance is love that self-controls—that reins in and reigns.
“Against such there is no law;” in other words, Such is agreeable to the law; for love is the fulfilling thereof.—P. Giddings, in Caribbean Watchman.