Let us seek a new realization and understanding of His character and purpose. For what did Christ live? Ringing in His every word and expressed in his every deed is the key note of His life--Love. He lived to express, to incarnate love--the love of the father for His children. We see Him turn from honor, riches, from what others value and strive for, that he might manifest His love and teach others how to love. The love of Jesus embodied more than it is possible for us to comprehend in the height and depth and fulness of its meaning. His love expressed perfect understanding and sympathy. "Your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things." His love was filled with compassion and tender pity for the needy and suffering. "Jesus, moved with compassion, touched him and saith unto him, Be thou clean." His love felt human sorrow. At the tomb of Lazarus "Jesus wept." His love shared human joy. "These things have I spoken unto you that my joy might remain in you and that your joy might be full." His love held redemption--was a saving love. "He that cometh unto me I will in no wise cast out." His love knew fullest forgiveness. He said to the woman taken in sin, "Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more." His love brought friendship. "Ye are my friends." His love gave new meaning to justice. "Her sins which are many are forgiven-for she loved much." His love gave inspiration, "If ye abide in me and my words abide in you ye shall ask what ye will and it shall be done." "Greater works than these shall ye do." His love held the promise of eternal companionship. "All mine are thine and thine are mine. I will come and receive you unto myself, that where I am ye may be also." "Outlawed men, criminals and lepers and madmen, became as little children at His word, and all the wrongs and bruises inflicted on them were healed beneath His kindly glance. This is how He lived and this Gospel was the Gospel of a life He lived in such a way that men saw that love was the only thing worth living for--that life had meaning only as it had love." O Love that wilt not let me go, I rest my weary soul in Thee. I give Thee back the life I owe That in thine ocean depths its flow May richer, fuller be. This many-sided, all-embracing love is the type of love His followers are pledged to yearn for and to seek earnestly to express. The love of Christ found three great expressions--in giving, in service, in sacrifice. If we, Christian women, are to reproduce Christ's spirit of love, then giving, service, sacrifice must be dominant in our lives. How wonderfully and fully the Christ gave of all that He had--Himself. He needs our gifts to-day, ourselves, our talents, our money. Home Missions means a life to be lived, the full, glad giving of thought, prayer, money, that His love may be made known to all the weary, oppressed, ignorant, waiting, suffering ones in our land.