THE following pithy little sermon was actually written on a postal card for the Bible Banner. It shows how many good things can be said within a small compass. Let us learn to boil down our thoughts until the water and froth are evaporated, and nothing but the solid sugar remains. 1. This text is not applicable where brotherly love does not already exist. 2. Being addressed to Christians, it is taken for granted that it should and does exist among them. 3. It is at least implied that it may cease to exist among them; hence the admonition to perpetuate it. 4. We learn its importance from many passages of Scripture. Have you doubts about your acceptance with God? Here is a test. 1 John 3:14. Do your neighbors doubt your sincerity? Here is a criterion. John 13:38. Can you love God and cherish ill-will toward your brother? Impossible. 1 John 4:20. Plain talk, but it is God’s truth, and we cannot get around it. Can we be mean, stingy, and penurious, and love God? Never. 1 John 3:17. Can we be saved without this principle? No. 1 Cor. 13. Better possess this and be destitute of all things else than to possess all things and be destitute of love. Can anything substitute love? Can benevolence? We may hoard up one hundred thousand dollars in life, and bequeath it to charity at death; but it won’t purchase eternal life. We may be as zealous as the crusaders and suffer martyrdom, and yet be damned. Knowledge, eloquence, power, and mountain-moving faith alone will not take us to glory. Three things constitute the religion of Jesus. 1. Love. 2. Love. 3. Love. “Let brotherly love continue.”—Bible Banner.