Testimony of Healing September 11, 1902 Issue

I desire to give through our periodicals an experience...

E. S. W.

I desire to give through our periodicals an experience which has meant much to me, and which I hope will help some seeker for Truth, as much as it has helped me.

When I was young, and attended an orthodox Sunday School, I received every Sunday a small card upon which was a verse from the Bible. I would read and ponder over these little verses, and no passage caused me so much anxiety as that little declaration of three words, "God is Love." I could not understand it. I well remember how often it appeared on various cards which I received, and each time I would ponder over it, trying to reason it out, but each effort seemed a failure.

As I grew older in years, and studied grammar, I still thought of it, "God is Love." It seemed to be always with me, but I could not understand it. I reasoned thus : God is a very large person. Love is an abstract noun. How in the world can a very large person be an abstract noun? I could understand God as Good but I could not perceive or comprehend that God is Love.

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