JESUS not only taught the principle of love, as did also his apostles, but, in his earthly life and in all his relations to men as well as God, he was a sinless illustration of his own teaching. Love, as the law of living, just reverses the law of supreme selfishness, displacing it and substituting itself for it. Selfishness is the central principle of all sin, and the universal curse of this world. It makes man a depraved being toward God and depraved being toward his fellow-man. It is essentially the law of hell. Love, on the other hand, is the central principle of all virtue, and is the law of heaven. The moral salvation of the gospel is a salvation from supreme selfishness and the enthronement of love in the human breast. Man is saved from himself and from his own depravities when love becomes the monarch, the guide, and inspiration of his existence.—Independent.