The Best Love Story by Alice M. Goodwin

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 14, 1909

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 36, No. 15.

The Best Love Story

By Alice M. Goodwin

Love is the greatest power in the world, and it is natural that love stories should have a strong fascination, but it is a pity that many spend time on second, third, or even tenth rate love stories instead of reading the best. What the mind is filled with inevitably influences the life and shapes the character. No one then can afford to read anything less than the best.

There is one Author whose love stories are safe. They are standard and cheap enough to be within the reach of all. No harm has ever resulted from reading them. No false ideas of life, no ruined happiness can be laid at their door. If you wish to read love stories, read these. They abound in adventure, passion, exciting situations, hairbreadth escapes. This Author’s works are in one series and center toward one Hero, tho there are a multitude of lesser characters, whose histories are only second in interest to His. The Hero loves as no man ever loved, and at tremendous cost and suffering rescues His peerless bride from the clutches of her enemies. The account ends in the approved fashion, with the heartless villains all destroyed, and the bride and groom, their sufferings past, united in a beautiful home to live happily ever afterward. In fact, all the elements of the most enchanting love story are embodied in this one, and one of the best features is that the Book will bear unlimited re-reading, while at each perusal new charms appear. It can not be too highly recommended.

A few specimen quotations will give an idea of the merit of the book: “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.” “Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us, and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.” “Who can separate us from the love of Christ?” “Know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God.”—Alice M. Goodwin.