p. 5 | THE MISSION OF LOVE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Dec 24, 1896

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 22, No. 51.

THE MISSION OF LOVE.

THE Great Sculptor made a beautiful image in clay. And when it was finished Necessity pressed upon it and Toil bent it down. Famine pinched it, and Tyranny hammered it, and Monopoly cast it out from the place which the Sculptor had ordained.

It lay in the kennel, rejected and unclean. Theology passed by on the other side, and said: "See how depraved it is—it is fit only to be cast into the fire."

But Love lifted the figure up and wept over it; and as her tears fell upon the clay it

softened in her arms, so that she smoothed out the bruises with her hands.

Then Justice set it again in its place, and men said: "Behold, it was made in the image of God!"—The Kingdom.