Dr. Landreth: “‘Bear ye one another’s burdens.’”
Mr. Travilla: “‘Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep.’”
Adelaide: “‘Comfort ye, comfort ye, my people, saith your God.’”
Mr. Dinsmore: “‘Provide things honest in the sight of all men.’”
Dr. Landreth: “‘Every man shall bear his own burden.’”
A slight pause followed the last text, and then Mrs. Travilla broke the silence.
“In all these and many more we learn his will concerning us,” she said, “and he tells us ‘If ye love me, keep my commandments.’ ‘He that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me.’ Obedience—to a parent, and God is our Father; to a Master, and Jesus is our Lord and Master—is the test of love.
“‘We love him because he first loved us’; and obey him not that we may be saved, but because we are saved.
“‘Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.’
“‘Looking unto Jesus’—trusting in him alone for salvation, trying to be like him, and to know, to do, and suffer all his holy will—this is what it is to be a Christian; a follower of God—not as a slave—but as a dear child. ‘Be ye therefore followers of God as dear children.’”