The Gentleness of Quiet Love

Seventh-day Adventist Missionary Society · Oakland, Cal. · Feb 9, 1882

The Gentleness of Quiet Love

Rev. Dr. Parker, of London, in a recent address said, "My mother, sir!" says the wild youth, "Why, sir, there is nothing on earth that I would not do for my mother. I would walk fifty miles on burning metal for my mother." His nice, dear old mother does not want any filial piety so tragical as that, but she would like him to keep her company sometimes on winter nights; she would like him to come home an hour earlier in the evening; she would be pleased if he would get up an hour sooner in the morning; she would be thankful if he would go to church regularly and sit by her side. She does not want the agony of tragedy, she pines for the gentleness of quiet and thoughtful love.