For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace. – Romans 6:14

The principle of Love has been found to possess very great power over men. In the infancy of history nations dream that crime can be put down by severity, and they rely upon fierce punishments; but experience corrects the error. Our forefathers dreaded forgery, which is a troublesome fraud, and interferes with the confidence which should exist between man and man. To put it down they made forgery a capital offence…Yet the constant use of the gallows was never sufficient to stamp out the crime. Many offences have been created and multiplied by the penalty which was meant to suppress them. It is a notable fact as to men, that if they are forbidden to do a thing, they straightway pine to do it, though they had never thought of doing it before. Law commands obedience but does not promote it. Law fails, but love wins.

If one should rob another it would be sufficiently bad; but suppose a man robbed his friend, who had helped him often when he was in need, everyone would say that his crime was most disgraceful. Love brands sin on the forehead with a red-hot iron. If a man should kill an enemy, the offence would be grievous; but if he slew his father, to whom he owes his life, or his mother, on whose breasts he was nursed in infancy, then all would cry out against the monster. In the light of love sin is seen to be exceeding sinful…Grace has a strange subduing power, and leads men to goodness, drawing them with cords of love, and bands of a man. The Lord knows that bad as men are the key to their hearts hang on the nail of love. He knows that His almighty goodness, though often baffled, will triumph in the end. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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