God is love, and loves the whole family of man better than any earthly parent loves his children. He, therefore, who dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, for God is love. Nor is love, as it constitutes an essential attribute of God, a mere feeling, or emotion, or sentiment. It is beneficence going forth throughout creation in acts of benevolence and goodness. If, then, any are unhappy, it is because, that in the exercise of their free agency they resist his will, and perversely insist upon seeking happiness where it is not to be found.
Love is the fulfilling of the law.
And the requirements made of man in the Gospel are summed up by our Lord in the love of God, and our neighbor, not in the sentiment, or emotion, but in the actual working of it. He, that hath my commandments and keepeth them, he it is, that loveth me. For such a world as this, he offered himself as a lamb without spot, unto God, that he might redeem those who were otherwise without hope. Verily whosoever believeth on Him, shall not perish.