p. 5 | God's Love Story by Earle Albert Rowell

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Aug 31, 1911

God's Love Story

By Earle Albert Rowell

EARLE ALBERT ROWELL

Probably all who read this have indulged in the pernicious habit of reading, at some time, the so-called love story, the silly and nauseous sentimentalism of Satan's manufacture and inspiration. Millions read this trash, and think it profitable.

Great genius has been lavished upon the love story, to captivate the world, to enrich the author and build up his fame. My young friend, does your heart yearn for reading that has pure love in it, that feeds the longings of the heart?

There is only one love story in the world that is of supreme value. This one is worth all the others put together, because it is the love story of God, inspired by God. What can so thrill the imagination as the thought of God loving? When we read of some noble sacrifice made by the hero of some story, how it thrills our soul! But in the love story of God we read of a Sacrifice so much greater than any recorded in the highest flights of fancy, that it is like trying to outshine the midday sun with a match.

Would you read a love story in which there is a hero worthy of imitation? then read of the divine Hero who bravely suffered a most agonizing death for you and me. What hero is there to compare with God's Hero?

“God so loved the world.” Ah, do you want to read of love? Where is there love to compare with this? You will not want to hide this love story under the table when your mother enters the room unexpectedly.

Here is love unfathomable, infinite. Here is love that satisfies every longing of the heart. Do you hunger to read a love story? Then read God's love story; for “blessed is he that readeth.”

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