To be near unto God - pagina 581

every case. Not the curse of hated and anger. Not base meanness, which uses the curse as a poisoned weapon to wound. But the curse of him who is authorized to pronounce it, the curse of a father, or of a mother, or of one who is clothed with spiritual authority. Such a curse was valid as spoken under supreme responsibility, under And such a curse came inspiration from above. And where by the side of the curse there true. stands an equally sharply outlined address of blessing, which also derives its words and significance from the person, from the position and the occasion whereby and under which it took place, it is evident, that in this most noteworthy phe-

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and of curse, there hides a which in our Western lands and in our unspiritual times appreciation and receptivity have all too far been lost. Of the curse of blessing

spiritual utterance for

almost nothing

among

us, save the persons who abuse the holy name of the Lord as expletive and as an expression of anger. And of the prayer of blessing little else remains than good wishes at New Year, at a birthday, or at the solemnizing of marriage.

there

is

blasphemous language

left

of

profane

But in this mighty difference between a wish and the ancient address of blessing the weakened and abated character-trait of our utterance of life Even upon the deathbed little delineates itself. more is heard of such blessing of one's children. At present the only particular of a death that is mentioned is, that the patient passed away quietly 57S

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