To be near unto God - pagina 366

some one

consults his father about a business scheme with some man, the father's question in reply: "Do you know him," will mean: Are you sure that he is honorable, reliable and trustworthy as to his business ability? This two-fold significance of knowing anyone personally must be reckoned with in Scripture and in knowledge of God. To know is always fundamentally an observation of difference. He who is not conversant with botany, only sees trees and shrubs; while he who observes the difference between oak and beech trees, oleander and rhododendron, jasmine and snowball, begonia and heliotrope, recognizes what he sees and rejoices in the wealth of it. The same is true among peo-

In the business street of a foreign city we see nothing but people who pass us by without ple.

speaking, while in our home town every one is familiar to us, and we even know the name someBut this goes no times of the smallest child. further than the difference between A and B. know the know people from one another.

We

We

We

do not mistake difference between them. them in passing. Their appearance is familiar. know them at first sight. But if we mean that closer and more intimate knowledge which enables us to form some idea of a man's char-

We

acter, inner life, endeavors and aims, another difference is at stake. Not the difference in clothing, facial features and outward appearance, but the distinct knowledge of a man's bearing, utterSuch knowledge becomes a ances and feelings. testing; an entering into the inward existence of

such a person.

Where

it is

told of

Samuel that he did not yet 358

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