(David Harsha, "Thoughts on the Love of Christ")

In the death of Christ, we behold the most
astonishing exhibition of divine love that has
ever been manifested to a lost world.

Such love as is here displayed, is without a
precedent; without a parallel in the annals
of time or in the records of eternity.

To behold the Son of God, the Maker of worlds,
bowing his head on the cross, and yielding up
his immaculate soul amid the agonies of death,
is the most amazing, the most affecting, the
most melting sight that mortals ever witnessed!

Around the Cross of Christ there shine the
most resplendent rays of divine love that
ever beamed from the Sun of Righteousness;
that ever emanated from the Deity.

O, my soul, look and wonder!

Behold your Savior bleeding on the cross;
bleeding from every pore, that your sins
might be washed away in the flowing stream!

See him pouring out his soul unto death, for
your salvation! Is not this a manifestation of
unparalleled love to you?

Christ's suffering and dying for us is a great
mystery, a mystery of unfathomable love!

How vehement was the love of Christ, that led
him to endure death in its most terrible form,
even the death of the cross! "Love is strong as
death; the coals thereof are coals of fire, which
has a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot
quench love; neither can the floods drown it."

Such is the love of Christ.

All the waters of affliction and suffering; all the
billows of divine wrath that rolled over our blessed
Redeemer, were not sufficient to quench the ardency
of that love which he felt for a dying world of sinners!