Show the word religion pa may can anything which is con q christianity Is love ducted as a religious cere which saves world mony but the word chris ti anity according to the by br REV H H VAN METER palter rulaf ei ci tenth dutch chims teaching S of christ himself includes only a life of love to god and love to man he himself said the first and greatest commandment man dment is thou love the lord thy god with all thy heart and the second is like unto it thou love thy neighbor as thyself and he added on these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets this is equivalent to saying that if we love god as we should and love our neighbor as ourselves we will fulfill the law of the prophets and this is absolutely true for the first four commandments of moses kioses include duty to god and the others duty to our fellows if we do love god as we should we will observe the first four naturally as we will obey the others if we do love our neighbors as we love ourselves the golden rule was christs interpretation of the law for when he be said Mat whatsoever ye would that men should do to you do yo ye so unto them he added tor for this is the law and the prophets and he illus S tra grated this by his 1 own lifland life and death of love As the apostle paul put it love lote is ii the fulfilling of the law for love no ill to td his neighbor so we can sum true christianity up in in one short sweet simple word easily understood by any and by all love love is the law of life the life of love is the life of heaven tho the loveless life is the life of the lost the life of hate bate is the life of hell here and hereafter |