Article July 5, 1941 Issue

Signs of the Times

Topic: Christian Love

["Pathfinder," in the Southern Weekly News, Brighton, Sussex, England]

We are accustomed to think of justice as stern and harsh and unbending, while we look upon mercy as soft and gentle and yielding. But Milton was probably right when he suggested that the essential qualities of justice and mercy are most fully displayed when both are present together, fused into one harmonious whole. When they are fused into one harmonious whole we get something which is stronger than strict justice, and more tender than pure mercy—something which is best described as "Christian love."

What is meant by "Christian love" has been explained in immortal words by St. Paul in his first epistle to the Corinthians. It is something which suffereth long and is kind; something which is not easily provoked; something which believeth and hopeth and endureth and never faileth. In short, it is the very thing that the world today needs, and needs most desperately.

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