this shall all men know you for My disciples, that you love one another." This same gospel of love, His disciples after Him taught. St. John the Evangelist, when too old and feeble to preach, was wont to sit before the people and repeat over and over: " Little children, love one another." When asked why he always said the same words, he replied: " Because this is the commandment of the Lord, which, if fulfilled, will suffice." St. Paul's first address to the Corinthians goes still deeper into the matter. What, he asks, is the most eloquent orator with a heart devoid of love? A sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal. A monstrosity, deaf and yet not mute, a milestone ever pointing heavenward but never going there, a round of blank cartridge making much noise but doing little execution among the enemy. And if, he adds, my mind were possessed of all knowledge and of faith that could move mountains, yet were I nothing without a loving heart. Yea, he continues, were I to distribute millions among the poor and die a martyr's death, yet would I be nothing without love. Therefore, he concludes, so persuaded am I that the heart is the prime factor in religion that no created power, not even death itself, shall ever move me from the love of God.
Brethren, as time goes on the Christian world is coming round more and more to Paul's way of thinking. In the past, when the Church was struggling for existence, a docile mind was the Christian's first requisite, but since then religion has penetrated deeper into men and centred in their hearts. The
