Article December 11, 1948 Issue

Signs of the Times

Love

with contributions from Wilbur D. Emmons, C. W. Beireis, Gordon Powell, George Matthew Adams

Wilbur D. Emmons in an article in The Christian Leader Boston, Massachusetts

Love is not sentimentalism or emotionalism, but rather it is mutual respect, mutual understanding, mutual faith, and mutual responsibility....

Love... thrives only when it is shared. If we can love, then we can see and respond to the opportunities for service which lie around us. Our obligation, tremendous but inescapable, is to assist each one, even the least and the worst, to do those acts of everyday Christianity, not only of the organized sort, not only of the kind that attracts attention, not only of the kind that even has a name, but, as someone has described it, those things which form "that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered, acts Of kindness and of love."...

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