It is foretold by our Lord Jesus Christ that in the last days the “love of many shall wax cold” (Mat 24:12). Truly, this is the symptom of a decaying, fading Christian and church. Love is the vital spirits of a Christian, which are the principles of all motion and lively operation. When there is a [failure] in these, the soul is in decay. It is so comprehensive an evil, as alone is sufficient to make an evil time. Besides, it is the argument and evidence, as well as the root and fountain, of abounding iniquity because this is the epidemical disease of the present time: love cooled and passion heated. [From these] proceed all the feverish distempers, contentions, wars, and divisions that have brought the church of God near to expiring. Therefore, being mindful of that of the Apostle (Heb 10:24), I would think it pertinent to consider one another and provoke again unto love and to good works.—Hugh Binning