A Perfect Gentleman. 109

content, indeed, to tread the lowly path of
separation He trod—following in His foot-
steps who “went about doing good.” We
need no less faith, but we need more
practice. The early Christian Church was
mainly successful, under the Holy Spirit’s
influence, because lookers-on saw that its
Christianity was not in word only, but in
deed and in truth, calling forth the exclama-
tion: “See how these Christians love one
another!” We seem to hear, amidst the
wrangling of private life, church courts, and
newspaper controversies, the good old
Apostle John faintly murmuring with his
dying breath: “ My little children, love one
another.” The whole law, Christ told us,
was included in these two commandments :
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart, and mind, and soul, and
strength ;” and the second is like unto it,
“Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy-
self ;”—the second the natural result of the
first ; and now that grace and not law reigns,
the Law of Love should more than ever be
our Rule of Life.

An instance is recorded of a God-fearing