Love Hopes All Things and Endures All Things

December 1.

Charity envieth not, ... thinketh no evil.

I CORINTHIANS 13, verse 4, 5.


Why dost thou judge thy brother?
or why dost thou set at nought thybrother?

ROMANS 14, verse 10.


He that despiseth his neighbor sinneth.

PROVERBS 14, verse 21.


Look thou with pity on a brother's fall,
But dwell not with stern anger on his fault;
The grace of God alone holds thee, holds all;
Were that withdrawn, thou too wouldst swerve and halt.

J. EDMESTON.


If, on hearing of the fall of a brother, however
differing or severed from us, we feel the least
inclination to linger over it, instead of hiding it
in grief and shame, or veiling it in the love which
covereth a multitude of sins; if, in seeing a joy or
a grace or an effective service given to others,
we do not rejoice, but feel depressed, let us be
very watchful; the most diabolical of passions
may mask itself as humility,
or zeal for the glory of God.

ELIZABETH CHARLES.


Love taketh up no malign elements; its spirit
prompteth it to cover in mercy all things that
ought not to be exposed, to believe all of good
that can be believed, to hope all things that a
good God makes possible, and to endure all things
that the hope may be made good.

J. H. THOM.