She is queen of all the graces of the inner life. Love is the passion of self-giving. It will pine to death if it cannot give. It must share its possessions. It is prodigal of costliest service.
Distance begets coldness and indifference.
When we forsake the assembly of our fellow- Christians we are apt to wrap ourselves in the chill mantle of indifference. The heart that can turn from the love and blood-shedding of Calvary, and ignore them, and trample them ruthlessly under foot, is so hard, so hopeless, so defiant of the Holy Spirit as to expose itself to the gravest displeasure of God, and can expect no further offering for its sins. There is no sacrifice for the atonement of the sin of rejecting Calvary. These Hebrew Christians had suffered keenly on their first entrance into the Christian life. They had become even a gazing-stock by reproaches and afflictions.