Practicing the Law of Love
By Editor
Sister S. Peckham, writes from Oswego Co., N. Y.:— “O that we may all be able to fulfill the perfect law of ‘love to God and man’; then every word and act will be in accordance with that principle. Then may it be truly said, ‘The righteousness of the law is fulfilled in us who walk not after the flesh but after the Spirit.’ Says Paul. ‘I protest by your rejoicing I die daily; this death must be to sin, to the carnal mind, that he might be made alive unto God.’ As it is written again. ‘The body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness; and to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.’ “I feel that I must make a practical use of every scripture, or it will profit me little. I mean by the grace of God so to do. I have marked chapters xii and xiii of Romans, as worthy of a close application until I learn how to practice from the heart every precept therein contained. If by our words we are to be justified or condemned, which are always indicative of the spirit we are of, how important that we obtain the right Spirit that our words may correspond thereto; and prove our own selves by the word of God, and thus work out our own salvation with fear and trembling.”