Because "all these things shall pass away."
Love alone is imperishable.
Love alone is the savior of the human race, and whenever we fail to act
from motives of love, we are disloyal to the light within us.
Again says St. Paul:
"If I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not love, I am
as sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal.
"And if I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all
knowledge; and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have
not love, I am nothing.
"And if I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be
burned, but have not love, it profiteth me nothing.
"_LOVE NEVER FAILETH_.
"But whether there be prophecies they shall be done away; whether there be
tongues they shall cease; whether there be knowledge it shall be done away.
For we know in part and we prophecy in part, but when that which is perfect
is come, that which is in part shall be done away."
It must be remembered that in the days of St. Paul the high priests and the
prophets were accounted the wisest and most exalted persons in the
community.
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