LOVE'S SALVATION by Laura L. M'L. Backler

Pacific Press Publishing Company · Mountain View, California · Aug 2, 1905

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 31, No. 31.

LOVE'S SALVATION.

By Laura L. M'L. Backler

THE mother bends with kisses o'er the child Too young to heed or prize her tenderness; The innocent, the pure, the undefiled, Need not for loving word or fond caress.

But they,—the guilt-stained, and the tempest-tossed, On life's rough seas, bowed low 'neath guilt and shame; Might they but hear a kind voice, free from blame, Call gently once the old familiar name, Or feel one such caress—they were not lost.

God speaks to such through human voices near. If all are harsh, "God turns from me," they say; "I am alone, and never prayer, or tear, Is breathed, or shed, my sliding steps to stay."

Yet God loves on, and through the gloom He saith: In each kind, human touch, "Avoid despair," Love is salvation. Cross of Christ declare, His own redeemed proclaim it everywhere, "Love hides the sin, and saves the soul from death." —Laura L. M'L. Backler.