There is the constraining love that yearns over darkness and cold and empty hearts.

This constraining love was the very heart of His Gospel.

We praise God that through His constraining love human souls are assembled and associated in this way.

But between the two there comes something which brings that constraining love to bear upon our hearts.

Inspiring hopes of the resurrection, constraining love of Christ, the ministry of reconciliation based on the atonement (v.).

Heaven is nearer now our little Robbie is there; Jesus is dearer, and has quickened us all by His constraining love.

Could such faithful work, done through the prompting of the Holy Spirit, and through the constraining love of Christ, be in vain?