To be near unto God - pagina 65

wretched and distressed of soul and who pine away in inner solitariness. On the other hand the merry-making multitudes who are always hurried, who are continually engaged with the art of externalizing themselves and never have a thought about their own solitary soul. The only medicine at hand for both these conditions of soul is fellowship with God. For the soul has its holy of holies as well as its holy place and its outer court. The world does not come nearer to the soul than this outer court. There it remains, and has neither vision nor understanding of the several elements that constitute the soul. Intimate, spiritual friendship makes closer approaches to the soul. There are some congenial spirits that understand us and see more clearly through us, and who are therefore better able, with tenderness, to sustain and to comfort us. But even they do not enter into There is always a deep the holy of holies. background into which they can not come, and where the soul remains in its solitariness. He who alone can enter into this holiest and most hidden recess of the soul is God by his Holy Spirit. He alone can fully break this solitariness of the soul. He alone can comfort him who is caught in the snares of death. He alone can save the soul of him who has long sought diversion in the vain pleasures of the world. 12

"GOD CREATED

MAN AFTER

HIS

IMAGE." All true religion and godliness springs from the fact that we have been created after the Image of God. Some of us have passed from 57

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