p. 8 | Little Love-Tokens by Emily A. Braddock

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 2, 1912

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 39, No. 14.

Little Love-Tokens

By Emily A. Braddock

God ofttimes hides His love in little things To win cold, earth-bound hearts, too weak to rise To heights revealing the great Sacrifice. He folds it in some lowly flower that springs Beside the road, darts it on sudden wings Of a lone bird down flashing from gray skies, Paints it in mosses, and, with myriad dyes, On ripple that to brooks a stray breeze brings. It beams in a child's smile, from faces dear Looks wistfully, clasps in a friendly hand, In snatch of song or kindly word of cheer Utters its sweet, mysterious command. God grant that with dull ear and blinded eye His small love-tokens we may not pass by! —Emily A. Braddock, in "Sunday School Times."