Love, Rewards of—See [Resignation].
LOVE, THE LANGUAGE OF
When William Duncan went among the Alaskan Indians to convert them to Christianity, he won them first by his kindness. He visited them, helped them with simple advice, and administered to their ailments from his medicine-chest. Long before he could make himself understood in words he spoke intelligibly in his works. They understood the language of his love and sympathy and kindness. By relieving their suffering he found a way at length to relieve their sins, in the gospel that he learned to utter in his message to them from the Word of God.
There is a gospel without words, as there is music without words; and he is the real linguist that can talk from the heart to the heart by a vibrant love.
(1923)
LOVE THE WORLD’S NEED
Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in the Century Magazine, writes thus of the world’s need:
Oh, love is the need of the world! Down under its pride of power,
Down under its lust of greed, for the joys that last but an hour,
There lies forever its need.