Yet there is love in these homes, and all that is needed is that it be set free to perform its sweet ministry.
There are cold, cheerless homes which could be warmed into love's richest glow in a little while, if all the hearts of the household were to grow affectionate in expression.

Does the busy husband think that his weary wife would not care any longer for the caresses and marks of tenderness with which he used to thrill her?
Let him return again for a month to his old-time fondness, and then ask her if these youthful amenities are distasteful to her.

Do parents think their grown-up children are too big to be petted, to be kissed at meeting and parting?
Let them restore again, for a time, something of the affectionateness of the childhood days, and see if there is not a blessing in it.

Many who are longing for richer home happiness, need only to pray for a spring-time of love, with a tenderness that is not afraid of affectionate expression.
"Comfort one another; With the hand-clasp close and tender, With the sweetness love can render, And looks of friendly eyes.
Do not wait with grace unspoken While life's daily bread is broken: Gentle speech is oft like manna from the skies." We ought not to fear to speak our love at home.

We should get all the tenderness possible into the daily household life.