“For we are saved by hope,” says the Apostle; but we read elsewhere, “By grace are ye saved”—“by faith are ye saved”—love saves us. Here it is hope. Yes, but they are all true, because they are all graces implanted by Christ, and we are saved by our Saviour, God! God is in Christ, saving us by His own royal love, “and the life that we now live, we live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved us and gave Himself for us.” Faith is this salvation taking an upward look to the God who was its author; grace is the look beneath, to the things from which we have been saved by God’s favour; love is the look around, going out in helpfulness to others; hope is the look to the future, when we shall be with God.

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