Article October 26, 1957 Issue

People today think of love as...

Rev. Graham W. Hardy, B. D.— London, England

Christian World

People today think of love as something weak and sentimental. The Bible proclaims it as the mightiest force in all the world. "Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it." Wherever Christ [Jesus] went He brought real love, welding together a quarrelsome group of disciples, seeking out the lonely and unwanted and despised. . . .

The ancient Greeks said that adamant was a metal so hard that the only thing to melt it was blood from a human heart. Only the life-blood of Christ can melt the adamant of human hatred. Not all the human good will and ingenuity in the world can manufacture it. Love is a gift . . . that . . . can finally break the hardness of man's heart. This is true conversion: not only to say with the Apostle, "Christ liveth in me," but also, "Christ loveth in me."

"A Christian," says Dr. John S. Whale, "is a channel open upwards to heaven by faith and outwards to his neighbour by love." That channel must, at all costs, be kept clear so that Christ can work this miracle of love through us: to love the unlovable, forgive the unforgivable, to bring healing to the heavy laden. . . .

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