p. 8 | LIFE AND LOVE

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Apr 22, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 16.

LIFE AND LOVE.

We begin to live when we begin to love. "We have passed out of death into life, because we love." That part of existence which the body and the mind pass through before the heart is wakened to love is pre-natal; it is existence, but it is existence without the full birth into life. The totally selfish man never comes to the hour of birth at all. He never knows what life is. "He that loveth not abideth in death." Life begins when love begins; life dies out of a man when love dies out of that man. Life is eternal when "love never faileth," when it "endureth forever." For life is like an organ with its many keys, with its many swelling tones; only as a master's hand rests upon it, and rules each varied sound, does it wake to life; the keys and tones of life are its thoughts, its words, its deeds, its prayers; the master's hand is God's, and God is love.—S. S. Times.