Signs of the Times [Rev. Dilworth Lupton, in the Transcript, Boston, Massachusetts]            Christianity has in it one idea that makes it quite distinct from the others. Christianity affirms that the main gateway to God is through love. This affirmation is not made by [Islam], by any form of Hinduism, or even by Judaism. But in Christianity the thought that God is Love, and that he who dwells in love dwells in God and God in him, blazes forth as the central teaching. It is this teaching which lies at the heart of Jesus' parable of the good Samaritan. It is this teaching that occurs again and again in the letters of Paul. The whole law . . . is fulfilled even in this: "Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself."          Many elements have developed during the course of Christian history to minimize this teaching that love is the chief gateway to God. Ecclesiasticism and other worldliness have at times almost obliterated this divine idea, but it has never wholly disappeared. Yet in spite of the materialism of our day there are signs that Christianity as a religion of love is being reborn. It may well be that we are facing a religious divorcement, not only personal but social in its scope, which will give Christianity a new inspiration and a new power, and will show men how, through love, they may find God.

Rev. Dilworth Lupton, in the Transcript, Boston, Massachusetts, January 22, 1925
Quoted in "Signs of the Times"
Christian Science Sentinel, April 4, 1925

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