The Meaning of Fervent Charity

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, Cal. · Sep 20, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 38.

The Meaning of Fervent Charity

Fervent charity is thus described by Rev. F. W. Robertson, the noted English Churchman:

Give us the man who can be insulted and not retaliate; meet rudeness and still be courteous; the man who, like the apostle Paul, buffeted and disliked, can yet be generous and make allowances, and say: "I will very gladly spend and be spent for you, tho the more abundantly I love you the less I be loved." That is "fervent charity."

This is brief and to the point, yet it is all comprehended in the command, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."