Son to be the propitiation for our sins” (I John 4:9, 10). “ For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life” (John 3:16). The lines which follow were suggested by the story o f an aged African woman who, on hearing the passages quoted above, pro tested: “ That’s not love! That’s not love!” and who, when pressed for her meaning, explained that the word “ love” was not strong enough to express what was in volved in the gift of an only Son. A father one day to his own little son A letter of love had penned, He could scarcely read, so young he was, So just at the very end, “ To show him my love,” the father said, “I will close it with a kiss, That simple sign he will surely know” And he made a sign like this—X Yes, right at the end where he sighed his name, He added a simple cross, And the letter was sent, And he knew what it meant, The kiss that was told in a cross. And God wrote a letter, a wonderful book, He wrote it o’er earth and sky; A book that the humble in heart could read When lifting their heads on high, And looking at stars so far away, And looking at flowers so near, They noted the care-free birds’ sweet song, In them God’s care did hear. Yes, over it all He signed His name, On sea, on earth, and on sky, And the letter was sent, And they knew what it meant, Who lifted their eyes on high. And then when the course of time had run, A letter of love God sent; It was writ so plain that all might read And know what the Sender meant, For there at the end, where all might see, A sign that they could not miss; He placed in the language of child hood’s day The sign of a child’s pure kiss. But why if it told us of God’s great love, Oh, why was there only one? My eyes fill with tears—I sob as I see 'Twas the cross of His only Son, And the letter was sent, Do you know what it meant, God’s love in the cross of His Son?
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