When St.Paul said, "The love of Christ constraineth me," he meant that he had the very love of Christ in him--the love that loved even the most unlovely, that helped even the most unworthy, that was gentle and affectionate even to the most loathsome.

We are never ready to do good in the world, in the truest sense or in any large measure, until we have become thus filled with the very spirit of Christ.

We may help people in a certain way without loving them.

We may render them services of a certain kind, benefiting them externally or temporally.
We may put material gifts into their hands, build them houses, purchase clothing for them, carry them bread, or improve their circumstances and condition.

We may thus do many things for them without having in our heart any love for them, anything better than common philanthropy.