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LOVING AND HATING

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Oct 6, 1868

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 32, No. 15.

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LOVING AND HATING.

This one thought in the following beautiful extract, “Why war against a mortal who is going the same road with us?” should be sufficient to cause all envyings, jealousies, and bitter strifes, to cease forever among us. We are traveling the same road with our fellow mortals. We are all going to the great assize, the final Judgment. Why spend the time of our pilgrimage thither in warring and contending with each other? Rather let us live continually in view of the great issue we are to meet, and commit all questions of a personal nature to the decisions of that great day.
“If you love, love more. If you hate, hate less. Life is too short to spend in hating any one. Why war against a mortal who is going the same road with us? Why not expand the flower of life and happiness by learning to love, by teaching those who are near and dear the beautiful lesson: Your hands may be hard, but your hearts need not be. Your forms may be bent or ugly, do you not know that the most beautiful flowers grow in the most rugged, unsheltered places? The palace for care, the cottage for love. Not that there is no love in the mansion; but somehow, if we are not very careful, business will crowd all there is of beauty out of the heart. This is why God has given us the Sabbath, that we may leave business in the office, and have a heart-clearing.”