Charity | AdventAI

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Jul 1, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 25.

Charity.

LOVE is the fundamental principle upon which everything else connected with the Christian religion rests. Upon love to God and man hang the whole law and the prophets. All one owes to God, to self, and one's fellow-man, is embodied in the law of love. Love is the fulfilling of the law. Love is absolutely essential to the Christian life. Take away love and you take away the essence of the Christian religion. One destitute of love is nothing. One may understand all the languages and be able to speak with the tongues of men and angels; may have the gift of prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge; have all faith, so as to remove mountains; and bestow all of his goods to feed the poor, and even give his body to be burned; but if destitute of love, he is as sounding brass, as clanging cymbal—nothing. There can be no religion without love.—Sel.