THE POWER OF LOVE by Charles Henry Parkhurst

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Oakland, California · Jul 8, 1897

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 23, No. 26.

THE POWER OF LOVE.

By Charles Henry Parkhurst

THERE is nothing that the poor and degraded need so much as they do love. They need love more than they do money. If we gave them less gold and more affection, they would be better off in heart, mind, and estate. Love is the redeeming element; love is the pith of the Gospel, the axis on which all turns. And men grow surprisingly lovable as soon as we begin to love them, startlingly interesting as soon as we begin to be interested in them. And we shall find in people just as much heart as we have the heart to find in them. As soon as we begin in a Christlike way to love people, we shall discover that they love to be loved. They are in our power, if our power is heart power. —C. H. Parkhurst, D.D.