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Hungry for Love

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Review and Herald Publishing Association · Washington, D. C. · Mar 31, 1904

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 81, No. 13.

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Hungry for Love

THE world is hungry for love. It is not hungry for great poets, great soldiers, great inventors, but it is longing for great lovers. A great lover is simply a soul set free enough from selfishness to live in other lives, and free enough from reserve and cowardice to tell others how he loves them.
One of the most beautiful stories we have ever read is told of Wendell Phillips, the orator. He was passionately devoted to his invalid wife, and one day after he had lectured, his friends urged him not to return to Boston that night. “The last train has left,” they said, “and you will be obliged to take a carriage. It will mean twelve miles of cold riding through the sleet.”
“Ah, yes,” he replied, “but at the end of them I shall find Annie Phillips.”
No journey is too long with love at the end of it, no task is too hard with love for its reward. The most successful men, not only as God counts success, but even according to men’s poor measure of success, are those that care for others. They live in others’ successes as well as their own. They add the happiness of others to their own joy.
That is all the world worth having. Not the world of greed and gold, not the world of war and murder, not the world of pride and envy. God is the chief lover, the one pattern of love. Every one that loveth is born of God, and whatever his Father has is his.—Christian Work.