LESSONS OF LOVE | AdventAI

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jul 6, 1876

LESSONS OF LOVE.

Let the heart once grow cold in its love to the Saviour, and how soon the lips and pen will be putting interrogation points after Christ’s sweetest and most satisfying assertions! When the eye has no capacity for light, but turns dead in its socket, how easy it is to argue that there is no light at all.

The soul must be in sympathy,—ready to answer back to God,—in order to attain to the highest knowledge; and love is the golden telegraphic wire which binds the creature to the heart of the Infinite.

Ah, this love of God! It comprehends our being in all possible ways, beautifying, strengthening, enriching, satisfying! It holds us close up by the pulsing heart of our Father, and by its intuitional teachings makes us understand all we are in fact and in possibility! It allies us with our Maker whose name is love. It is a better instructor than all the philosophies of the ages; for in its presence, these vanish like the ghostly fog-wreaths under the morning sun.

So, let love to God abound in the heart, stimulated by meditation and prayer, and skeptical thoughts will be far less frequent. —Sel.