p. 231 | The Measure of Love by Editor

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Apr 15, 1886

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 12, No. 15.

The Measure of Love.

By Editor

A BOSTON subscriber to a New York religious journal writes to the editor as follows:—

“I think your paper the best of the religious weeklies, and can no more dispense with it than with my coffee for breakfast.”

We fear that appetite is the standard of regard in too many cases. Here is a man who thinks as much of the paper from which he gets religious instruction as he does of his coffee! If he really thinks as much of his paper as he does of his coffee, he regards his religious privileges more highly than a great many do. We have known men who would leave the church and throw away their hope of Heaven, rather than give up their tobacco; and the number of such men is legion. Appetite is a powerful god, and has the most devoted worshippers; and when a man is found who regards anything as even on a level with the things which minister to his good feeling, you may know that his love is great.