THE religion of Christ and the Bible is the religion of love and unselfishness, and that religion if embraced and lived will develop unselfish, lovely characters. Even the enemies of Christianity admit its excellences when they condemn unsanctified, inconsistent professors of Christianity. The religions outside of Christianity are religions of self. Man becomes in some way his own saviour, and hence does that which in his own mind exalts him. Self-exaltation leads naturally to envy, strife, confusion, and every evil work. But where there is one only Saviour, who for the great love which He bore even His enemies, gave His life to save them, there is love begotten in return for the One who is altogether lovely; and this love for the one central object shuts out all occasion for envy, division, and strife. When the opposite of this is seen among professed Christians, when the contention is for personal place, prominence, preeminence, and authority instead of the service of Christ, the glory of His name, and the salvation of souls, the actuating is not of Christ, but of man. It may be called “Christian,” but it is not of Christ.