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LOVE TO CHRIST AND GOD.

Let us learn how the love of Christ, received into the heart, triumphs gradually but surely over all sin, transforms character, turning even its weakness into strength, and so, from the depths of transgression and the very gates of hell, raises men to God.


Prostrate, see Thy cross I grasp,
And Thy pierced feet I clasp;
Gracious Jesus, spurn me not;
On me, with compassion fraught,
     Let Thy glances fall.
From Thy cross of agony,
My Beloved, look on me;
Turn me wholly unto Thee;
"Be thou whole," say openly:
     "I forgive thee all."


Christ is not sweet till sin be made bitter to us.


Lovest thou me? This is the one test question of our religion—for he that loveth is born of God.


Jesus, Master, I am Thine;
     Keep me faithful, keep me near;
Let Thy presence in me shine
     All my homeward way to cheer.
Jesus, at Thy feet I fall,
     Oh, be Thou my All in All.


No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.