ttern for all who may in any way know of
our life.

2. Charity is kind. Where love is there is kindness. The greater the love
the greater the kindness. The lioness in all the fierceness of her nature
strokes her whelp in tenderness and kindness. Thus kindness is a product
of love. Love will put a tenderness in our looks, a gentleness in our
speech, and a kindness in our acts. If you are not as kind as you know you
should be, seek God for more of his love.

3. Charity envieth not. How impossible to envy those we love. The more
fortunate they are the more we rejoice. The more they are praised and
honored the deeper is our joy. With those we love, we weep when they weep
and rejoice when they rejoice. If there is a secret envy in your heart
because of the praise and prosperity of others, the love of God is
wanting. "Let not thine heart envy sinners." Prov. 23:17.

4. Charity vaunteth not itself. We can only love God at the sacrifice of
all self-love. When man possesses the love of God there is no self-praise,
nor seeking of honor; there is no setting self forward, but the lowliest
seat is the most desirable.

5. Charity is not puffed up. There are no feelings of self-importance in
the heart when the love of God is abounding. We love him so devotedly we
desire him to receive all the praise. Should God make some use of you it
will be natural to give him all the praise.

6. Charity doth not behave itself unseemly. There is a becomingness in all
the actions of pure and holy love. There is a beautiful consistency in the
worship of God when all is actuated by pure love. There is nothing
unseemly in our behavior toward God or our fellow man, even to the most
cultured minds, when influenced by love. It is noble and sublime,
elevating and pleasing to pure hearts. Praise is comely when flowing from
a heart full of love, but a wild hurrahing is unseemly. All unseemly
conduct in modes and forms of worship--such as tossing the head to and fro,
swaying the body, the loud stamping of feet, rolling on the floor, lying
stiff and rigid, shouting until the face reddens and veins distend and
exhaustion overcomes, are disgracing to God and disgusting to refined ears
and pure hearts.

7. Charity seeketh not her own. When man possesses the love of God he does
not seek his own pleasure and happiness but is interested in the welfare
and happiness of others; "He looks not upon his own things but upon the
things of others." We seek opportunitie