Sunday Sermon

This is the great law of Charity: “Thou shalt love thy neighbor;” these words teach us whom we are to love. “As thyself;” how and in what manner we are to love. This law, though well known by all, is understood by very few; for most people show by their conduct that they know little of what is meant by that law. There are many nowadays who ask with the lawyer: “And who is my neighbor?” So rare is the true love of one’s neighbor that people neither know nor care to know who their neighbor is; still less do they know what it means to love him as themselves. Since so much depends on the fulfillment of this law that without it it is impossible to love God, I shall endeavor to explain it today: