Express a Passion or Lose It

William James says, “Ret use to express a passion and it dies.” Power unused is power wasted. Emotion unexpressed will soon become incapable of expression. Love without works is mere sentiment.

A Lancashire lad going to his mother anil throwing his arms around her neck exclaimed, “Mother, I love you so much I would die tor you.” The mother replied, “Lad, I don’t want you to die for me, hut 1 wish you would come in a little earlier at night time.” Love without works is mere sentiment. G.

Cadbury once said, “It I want to know whether a man is truly changed in aim. desire and purpose, I do not go to the church of which he is a member, but to the home in which he lives. There I discover whether his professions are turned into realities.” The author ot /’ .v Rooti of Methodism gives great prominence to these words, “He felt his heart strangely warmed.”

This is a reference to a great emotional experience in the lite ot ]ohn Weslev. But more wonderful is this fact, that John Wesley kept his heart warm tor more than fifty years.

He did not allow that warmth to degenerate uuo gic\ ashes. He carried the warmth of his Aldersgate experience throughout England, and by his spiritual zeal he helped to save England from the destructive power ot a seething revolutionary spirit. He kept his heart warm. He harnessed his emotions.