There is attraction in love. "By loving-kindness have I drawn thee," said Jehovah to Israel. "And I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto myself," said the Lord [80] Jesus Christ. Love attracts people to one another. It is the cement of the church. Pride also is magnetic; it is the repellent principle. It is in many respects the direct opposite of love. Love is God's characteristic; pride, Satan's. Love lives for others; pride is concentrated selfishness. Love makes itself a servant; pride exalts itself. Love is willing to be a stepping-stone to another; pride makes stepping-stones of others, and tramples them down in its contemptuous ambition. Love empties itself; pride inflates itself. The effects of the two are at opposites. Love unites; pride divides--faction, strife, division follow in its wake. Love gathers; pride isolates The proud ultimately find themselves standing alone without help or sympathy. Pride strikes, wounds; love heals. Love saves; pride damns. A proud person would spoil the bliss and happiness of the New Jerusalem, and there are no middle grounds in eternity. There is intellectual pride, social pride, spiritual pride; but they are all of the same piece. God save us from it!

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