p. 13 | The Love of Christ by Max Hill

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Jun 12, 1907

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 33, No. 24.

The Love of Christ.

By Max Hill

MEN of the world can not understand the love that led Christ to come from heaven to this world to save men. The natural man can not comprehend such love, for however man may love another, he can not grasp the idea of love that annihilates self for another, for one who not only cared nothing for salvation, but positively rebelled against it.

The world can not know Him because they have not seen Him. But the Christian, having seen Him, can understand. And understanding Him, he is imbued with the same Spirit, which leads him to go forth to bear the message of love to others. And this is the test for those who have seen Him, who know Him: they work for Him. Their lives are the outshining of the indwelling Presence which knows no selfishness.

The reason that so few in the world see Christ is because His character of love and service is seen in so few. In the men about us we see many different characteristics; in one we see a follower of this idea, in another a follower of that idea; a casual acquaintance discovers a man's politics or social bent; it takes no longer to learn whether one is a disciple of the Saviour of men, but one must look farther and longer to find one who reflects His character of love than to find almost any other particular class of men. Once found we almost instinctively trust such a one; the man of the world recognizes his superiority; the wonder is that so few will grasp the terms of full salvation.

Max Hill.