GOD IS LOVE by B. G. Kingsley

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 4, 1893

GOD IS LOVE.

By B. G. Kingsley

BY B. G. KINGSLEY.

[A deaf mute boy once made a cross with a scroll on which were the words, "God is Love." Flowers and leaves surrounded the cross. He presented it to his teacher with a smiling face, pointing to the flowers.]

Poor child of silence, on whose youthful shoulders The heavy cross of dumbness has been laid, Say, do you know the meaning of the letters That on the scroll your docile hand has made?

Say, have you learned that truth so often questioned That trials come direct from heaven above— That on each cross, from His who bore our sorrow, Is written in golden letters—God is Love?

No answer; but the smile of sunny brightness That lights your face, as, with a joyous air, You show the flowers that, round the dark wood circling, Make of the heavy wood an object fair,

Speaks to my heart in language more convincing Than words could do, that God indeed is Love, Who not alone the burden keeps from pressing, But makes it bright with blessings from above.