Twenty-seventh Day — Love of Our Neighbour
1. If we love not our neighbour, we cannot love God. Whatever good we do, is to no purpose, if we do not love our brethren. Even martyrdom itself will not avail us, without charity.
2. “This is my commandment,” said Jesus, “that you love one another, as I have loved you.” Had mankind nothing else than Christ’s love to endear them, they are objects of esteem for that very reason. Since our Saviour has loved them, shall we refuse to do so?
3. Do we love all men as Christ has loved them? Do we thirst for their salvation as he did? Do we do by them as we would be done by?
Excite yourself to love those whom our Lord Jesus Christ has loved so tenderly: firmly purpose to promote their salvation, and never to do what may offend against charity.
“He that loveth his neighbour hath fulfilled the law.”
Romans xiii.
“By charity alone, the children of God are distinguished from the children of Satan.”
St. Augustine.