man can bring to God is the offering of his love. It is her love which makes the widow's mite more precious in the sight of God than all the rich man's wealth, and when the spiritually poor, the fallen, throw themselves at Jesus's feet, it is their love that covers the multitude of their sins, for much is forgiven to those only who love much. In a word, that charity is a precept infinitely important, a virtue infinitely precious, was declared when Christ pronounced its future reward: "Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it entered into the heart of man to conceive, what things God hath prepared for those who love Him."
Brethren, not only in the Gospel incident of today, but throughout His entire earthly career, Christ taught by word and deed the law of love. His very presence was an exhortation to love, for, says St. Paul (Tit. ii.), in Christ " the love of God our Saviour appeared to all men, instructing us that, denying ungodliness and worldly desires, we should live soberly and justly and godly in this world." His love for men, which from the beginning God had felt and repeatedly asserted, was palpably shown and proven when He sent into the world His only-begotten Son. The proof of love is the gift that love entails. Human love is but an empty sentiment expressed in words or manifested in some trifling trinket, powerless to beautify its object. But so efficient is the love of God that what He loves He also clothes with loveliness. Thus human nature in the person of Christ was glorified, and every incident of His life
