To be near unto God - pagina 64

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in spheres of happiness and these are withheld, when hatred repels, and slander persecutes, instead of love that attracts and sympathy that refreshes, shy and shivering the soul draws back within itself. It can not unburden itself. It can not tell what And shut up within itself it pines it feels. away in loneliness and grief. Again, when the joys of life take flight, and cares make heavy hearts, when sorrow overtakes sorrow, and the horizon narrows itself and the outlook becomes darker and dai-ker, and the star of hope sets behind ever-thickening clouds then, in distressing loneliness, the soul is thrown back upon itself and the solitary one pants for breath, and then is the time for Satan to come in with the thought of suicide. As the soul can be troubled and distressed in this way by too much solitude, it can also suffer loss, when as the result of superficiality, thoughtlessness and want of seriousness, its At such solitude is not properly estimated. times the soul is not known, neither is it honored in its individual, solitary and independent Then the only resort is endless existence. rounds of diversion and recreation. But never a turning in upon oneself. Never a collecting of the soul together for the sake of quiet thought. Never a search after the soul for its own sake. On the contrary the soul is kept It^ is held in a state of constant excitement. captive to serve its environments. It is never permitted to rest for self-examination and for finding inward peace. The world at large is divided into these two great companies. On one hand they who are

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