What is the Summum Bonum - The Supreme Good?

Latin? You say... no, I do not hold myself out as a scholar. But, I do enjoy gleaning from the writings of those who are. My spiritual papa, Jack Taylor, mentioned a treatise by Henry Drummond that he was reading. So, I could not help but want to eat what those who have gone before me have eaten. I prepared for a full course dinner. I was not disappointed. To eat from the delicacies of heaven is an unusual banquet here upon the earth, yet as the Kingdom is increasing it becomes a more frequent event. So below is a brief exerpt from the treatise linked above. (touch the title of this blog and it will take you to the full treatise by Henry Drummond)

What is the summum bonum--the supreme good?
For the withholding of love is the negation of the spirit of Christ, the proof that we never knew Him, that for us He lived in vain. It means that He suggested nothing in all our thoughts, that He inspired nothing in all our lives, that we were not once near enough to Him to be seized with the spell of His compassion for the world. It means that:
"I lived for myself, I thought for myself,
For myself, and none beside--
Just as if Jesus had never lived,
As if He had never died."

Join me, if you will at this wonderful banquet of love. Let me know your thoughts.