...her promptly, without answering a single word. For, as St. John reasons about love, if a man love not his brother, whom he hath seen, how shall he love God, whom he hath not seen ? So if a child does not obey its earthly parents, neither will it obey its Father which is in...

...it is the result of that fixed principle indicated by the Apostle, when he says, " If a man love not his brother whom he hath seen, 'how shall he love God whom he hath not seen?" All hatred is sin. To remove hatred, and fill the soul with love is forgiveness. But if a man...

...authority) are the first which should be charged on the conscience. But St. John says, 'If a man love not his brother, whom he hath seen, how shall he love God, whom he hath not seen ?' implying that it is easier to do one than the other. And surely, then, it is best to try to...

...love of our brother easier than the love of God, our brother being more familiarly known than God : ' He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? ' Descartes goes another way to work, and asks, how shall man believe even the existence of...

...all, how surely is this man making it impossible that he should love his God. For " he that loveth not his brother, whom he hath seen, how shall he love God, whom he hath not seen?" How shall he who kills within himself the natural instinct of affection for those he sees, ever...

...almost to divine honors, never mentioned but with affected rapture, the classics of Greece and Koine are seldom read, most of them never ; are they, indeed,...hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen ? Yon, Mr. A, L, M, 0, you who care not for Milton, and value not the dark sublimities which rest...

...of salvation. This is the true test and criterion of vital religion; and " if a man love not his own brother, whom he hath seen, how shall he love God, whom he hath not seen?" But to return to Mr. Panton : in his desolation and despair, he looked upon Naylor as one above...

...their Israclitish wives, is at the same time a sin against God, and a profanation of his covenant. " He who loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen." Whoever abolishes the distinction between an Israeh'tish and a heathen woman, shows by that...

...Prove your " faith " by your " works," your love to God by your love to man. " If any man love not his brother whom he hath seen, how shall he love God whom he hath not seen 4 ?" Nothing, brethren, can be more obviously rational than this precept of our Lord. The seat...

...referring it to the very principle of the text, he adds : " For he that loveth not his brother, ,yiiiom he hath seen, how shall he love God, whom he hath not seen ?" It ought forever to drive away our selfish indifference toward fellow-Christians, that there...