To be near unto God - pagina 67

saints consists in this alone. It surely binds heart to heart when we learn that others hold the same faith as ourselves, that we belong to One church, and that together we break One bread and drink One cup. But in the great journey through life to the courts of everlasting light companionship is sweetest with those who, under whatever outward form, have given us intimations that they live in communion with God. This relates back to our creation. That is to say, true religion and our capacity for genuine godliness spring solely from our creation after God's Image and after the Likeness of the Almighty. This is not altered by the fact that we have been conceived and bom in sin. Without regeneration there is no true religion. In this re-birth the fundamental trait of creation after God's Image is revived again. The fact that we have been born in sin can therefore be passed by. The subject in hand is conscious, actual fellowship with Our Father who And this depends upon the necesis in heaven. sary harmony which of itself prevails between the Original and what the image shows of it. The sodality of the Original and the image is felt and understood at once. One can not be an image, or image-bearer and an exhibitor of the same apart from the relation that binds him to the Original. If a picture is a good likeness, it is this because the original is what This is more the likeness shows that he is. striking with a photograph than with a painted portrait or with a face that is cut from marble. For with these the artist painter or sculptor comes in as the third factor between the origi59

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