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Life without Love

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Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jan 31, 1871

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 37, No. 7.

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Life without Love.

WE sometimes meet with men who seem to think that any indulgence in an affectionate feeling is a weakness. They will return from a journey and greet their families with a distant dignity, and move among their children with the cold and lofty splendor of an iceberg surrounded by its broken fragments. There is hardly a more unnatural sight on earth than one of those families without hearts. A father had better extinguish a boy’s eyes than take away his heart. Who that has experienced the joys of friendship, and values of sympathy and affection, would not rather lose all that is beautiful in nature’s scenery, than be robbed of the hidden treasures of his heart? Cherish, then, your heart’s best affections; indulge in the warm and gushing emotions of filial, parental, and fraternal, love.