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LOVE TO THE CREATOR

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The Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Jun 24, 1862

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 20, No. 4.

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LOVE TO THE CREATOR.

By Dr. W. Beach

This constitutes the most noble, the most sublime, and the most heavenly of all the passions that actuate the human breast. That Being whom the heaven of heavens cannot contain, is emphatically pronounced Love; from which we may infer that this is the most holy and blissful attribute of Deity, and the only true source of happiness to men and angels.
The exercise of this passion constitutes happiness, while its opposite passion, anger, constitutes suffering. There is, therefore, no passion which exercises such a healthful and important an influence as pure celestial love. It is a fact which has been confirmed by thousands, that the most inveterate and dangerous diseases, such as have baffled the skill of physicians, have been removed by the influence of that love which has followed the pardon of sin; while anger, on the other hand, has brought on fatal and incurable diseases. There is, therefore, the highest incentive for us, both in a temporal and spiritual point of view, to be brought under the influence of this love.—Dr. W. Beach.