Article August 30, 1900 Issue

To be Watchful and Fair

BY A. M.

How strange it is that we sometimes think we cannot love our neighbor! How true it is, and how forceful the thought, that our love of God is always proportionate to our love of our fellow-man! If we love not them whom we have seen, how can we love Him whom we have not seen? How closely we, as exponents of the highest and purest teaching ever known to humanity, should watch our thought along this line.

The New Testament would not lead my one to think Jesus spent much time or energy in condemning or criticising Judas, yet we read he "needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man." Had Jesus spoken of Judas in an unfavorable manner, the disciples would not have asked the question at the last supper, "is it I?" Beyond question he tried, in a way we as yet know not of, to rescue Judas from sin, which Jesus well knew was and is the only death.

We see how Jesus was repeatedly compelled to avoid his enemies, barely escaping with his life. How the dull disciples constantly brought grief and arduous struggle. And yet how eternal stands his unfaltering, unchanging love for God and man.

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