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CHRISTIAN LOVE.
made beautiful? how even parental sorrow might aspire to the sublime faith of that "cheerful giver, whom God loveth?"
A kind and gentle spirit is manifested by the Moravians, in their intercourse with each other, and with differing denominations of Christians. The time thus saved from conflicts about shades of opinion, they have wisely spent in giving a deeper growth to that charity which the Gospel requires. Perhaps they think with the philosopher, that "the true wealth of a man is the number of things that he loves and blesses, that he is loved and blessed by."
But they have learned of a better Teacher, and seem well to have kept the test which He enjoined,—"Hereby shall men know that ye are my disciples, if ye love one another."
