. Essays and addresses . THE DEFENCE Now I have a closing sentence or two to addabout Pauls reason for singling out love as thesupreme possession. It is a very remarkablereason. In a single word it is this: // lasts. Love, urges Paul, never faileth.** Then hebegins again one of his marvellous lists of thegreat things of the day, and exposes them oneby one. He runs over the things that menthought were going to last, and shows that theyare all fleeting, temporary, passing away. Whether there be prophecies, they shallfail. It was the mothers ambition for her boyin those days that he should become
. Essays and addresses . THE DEFENCE Now I have a closing sentence or two to addabout Pauls reason for singling out love as thesupreme possession. It is a very remarkablereason. In a single word it is this: // lasts. Love, urges Paul, never faileth.** Then hebegins again one of his marvellous lists of thegreat things of the day, and exposes them oneby one. He runs over the things that menthought were going to last, and shows that theyare all fleeting, temporary, passing away. Whether there be prophecies, they shallfail. It was the mothers ambition for her boyin those days that he should become a prophet. THE GREATEST THING IN THE WORLD. 40 For hundreds of years God had never spokenby means of any prophet, and at that timethe prophet was greater than the King. Menwaited wistfully for another messenger to come,and hung upon his lips when he appeared asupon the very voice of God. Paul says, Whether there be prophecies, they shall fail/This Book is full of prophecies. One by onethey have failed *; that is, having
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