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THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD

THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD

Every one has asked himself the great question of antiquity as of the modem world:

What is the summum bonum—the supreme good ? You have life before you. Once only you can live it. What is the noblest object of desire, the supreme gift to covet ?
We have been accustomed to be told that the greatest thing in the religious world is Faith. That great word has been the key-note for centuries of the popular religion ; and we have easily learned to look upon it as the greatest thing in the world.

Well, we are wrong. If we have been told that, we may miss the mark. I have taken you, in the chapter which I have just read, to Christianity at its source; and there we have seen, “ The greatest of these is love.”