Making Love a Practise

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Apr 4, 1907

Making Love a Practise

BECAUSE we love our dear ones is not a good reason for wounding them freely. Yet we actually seem to make it so in much of our daily life. Some one has said, keenly, “Any one can be courteous to a stranger.” It is easy to be careful for the feelings of those about whom we care little. Should we not do as much for those who are dearest to us? There is no greater cruelty than to count upon our love’s “tiding over” harsh criticism, and all the unloving, stinging darts that most of us reserve for home use. There is no better way of loving and proving our love than by using at home all the courtesies, attentions, cheeriness, sunshine, and “better side” of our natures that most of us reserve for company use. For love that takes these things for granted is either counterfeit or perilously near death.—Selected.