The Unmistakable Love
Poem★★★★scarcely be noticed, carries little or no contagion. Some Christians might live a year in a boardinghouse, and no one would be sure whether they loved others or not. But real Christian love is unmistakable in its symptoms. It takes thought for the indifferent and even for the ungrate- ful. It is ‘not provoked, taketh not account of evil.” It 1S not kind just for the sake of appearances. It rings true, and therefore no heart can help responding to it in some measure. Christianity has always spread by personal infectious- ness, so to speak. Each Christian who is kind and loving, and is faithful in his witness for Christ, brings others to the love of God, and cannot fail.
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The point
Real Christian love is unmistakable and contagious; Christianity spreads through personal infectiousness of genuine love and faithful witness.