of the law of love.

We are at present divided into classes with warring interests waiting
for peace to begin the strife again. The body-politic is fissiparous
and there is nothing to bind it together in the unity and consistency
of steel. Here is the element through which the disintegrated elements
can be united into a weapon that can win victories. At the feet of God
there comes the knowledge that all we are brethren, and that the one
law is love. It is love that unites. It is love that bridges chasms
and throws down dividing walls. Love does not throw doles to the
perishing, it gives itself. Love never says, 'You carry my burden,'
but rather, 'Let me carry your burden.' To the eye of love, man is no
longer a mere crank in the great machinery of labour, a unit in the
vast mass designated the 'lower classes'--he is a brother. And love
will not give a brother over to be the prey of vice, {194} or surrender
him as a victim to monopolies that destroy him. Love will sacrifice
and fight for the brother's life. The remedy for all our ills lies
here--in our return to God.

IV

To many the preaching of repentance is the dreariest of all things. It
is but the voice summoning them to the impossible--to mourn for sins of
which they are unconscious. They cry out for life--and they are
offered tears.

But far from being compact of all weariness and sorrow, repentance is
the most thrilling of all that the soul can experience. It is the
essence of all romance. For what is it but this--the turning back to
God. And in turning to God comes the vision of the glory of life. The
eyes are illumined with radiance when they behold no longer processes
and laws--but God. Who can compute that enrichment when suddenly the
veil is rent and from some hill-top the eyes behold {195} no longer
meadow and moorland and the gleam of waters afar, but the Life behind
them all--God; and everything created, the green sward and the clouds
swimming in glory, the mist-caressed mountains and the great sea
heaving in all its waves, become but one vast transparency through
which God flashes His splendour on the enraptured soul. And in this
return to God the soul is ever led on from glory to glory. That is the
alluring power of Christianity. The Shepherd of souls leads us ever on
until we come to the Cross and realise that the God of heaven and earth
is the God of sacrifice; that His love stoops to agony that He may
save. And onward fro