A Lesson of Love
StoryIllustration★★★As a group of college students toured the slums of a city, one of the girls, seeing a little girl playing in the dirt, asked a guide, “Why doesn’t her mother clean her up?” “Madam,” he replied, “that girl’s mother probably loves her, but she doesn’t hate dirt. You hate dirt, but you don’t love her enough to go down there and clean her up. Until hate for dirt and love for that child are in the same person, that little girl is likely to remain as she is.”
Until hate for sin and love for the sinner gets in a person, he will do little about the plight of the lost.
Milbourn H. Miller, Notes And Quotes, 111.
The point
A guide explains that a slum child stays dirty because those who hate dirt do not love her enough to clean her up, and those who love her do not hate the dirt.