who were reporting false charges, I have been sorry that
I spoke at all, and wished I were wise enough to guard [1]
against that temptation. Oh, may the love that is talked,
be felt! and so lived, that when weighed in the scale of
God we be not found wanting. Love is consistent, uni-
form, sympathetic, self-sacrificing, unutterably kind; even [5]
that which lays all upon the altar, and, speechless and
alone, bears all burdens, suffers all inflictions, endures
all piercing for the sake of others, and for the kingdom
of heaven's sake.