If ever human love was tender, and self-sacrificing, and devoted; if ever
it
could bear and forbear; if ever it could suffer gladly for its love
ones; if ever it was willing to pour itself out in a lavish abandonment
for the comfort or pleasure of its objects; then infinitely more is
Divine love tender, and self-sacrificing, and devoted, and glad to bear
and forbear, and to suffer, and to lavish its best of gifts and
blessings upon the objects of its love. Put together all the tenderest
love you know of, the deepest you have ever felt, and the strongest that
has ever been poured out upon you, and heap upon it all the love of all
the loving human hearts in the world, and then multiply it by infinity,
and you will begin, perhaps, to have some faint glimpse of what the
love of God is.
H. W. SMITH.
