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stimulating sermon, which struck me particularly 

 because of the translation of a word which, I am 

 ashamed to say, I had myself always before mis 

 translated. It was on the old text of faith, hope, 

 and charity. The sermon was delivered in Ger 

 man, and the word that the preacher used for char 

 ity was not charity, but love; preaching that the 

 greatest of all the forces with which we deal for 

 betterment is love. Looking it up I found, of course, 

 what I ought to have known but did not, that the 

 Greek word which we have translated into the word 

 charity, should be more properly translated love. 

 That is, we use the word charity at present in a sense 

 which does not make it correspond entirely to the 

 word used in the original Greek. This Lutheran 

 preacher developed in a very striking but very happy 

 fashion the absolute need of love in the broadest 

 sense of the word, in order to make mankind even 

 approximately perfect. 



We need then the two qualities the quality of 

 which I first spoke to you which has many shapes, 

 the quality which rests upon courage, upon bodily 

 and mental strength, upon will, upon daring, upon 

 resolution, the quality which makes a man work; 

 and then we need the quality of which the preacher 

 spoke when he spoke of love as being the great 

 factor, the ultimate factor, in bringing about the 

 kind of human fellowship which will even approx 

 imately enable us to come up toward the standard 

 after which I think all of us with many short-com 

 ings strive. Work, the quality which makes a man 



