To be near unto God - pagina 53

speak with others whose faces we cannot see, but whose voice we receive in return. So far have we advanced that telegraphy permits communication without vnre or any visible, tangible guidance. And now we understand how this communication can be disturbed, interrupted and sometimes altogether broken. God's saints on earth have such mystical communication with their Father who is in They have a mystical telegraph, a heaven. mystical telephone, a mystical means of communication without wire or any material appliance. And as little as a primitive man can understand our telegraphic communication, so little can the man of the world understand the mystical fellowship of the earnest believer on God with the Heavenly Father, who is both far off and close by. And the believer on God understands how this fellowship can be interrupted, and even entirely broken off. For there are times when the soul calls and seeks God, and nothing comes back; when no sign from above is vouchsafed; when it seems that God is lost; when everything remains silent; when no voice comes and no answer. Why God withdraws himself at such times can be surmised, but can never be fathomed. The cry from the cross: "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" holds us face to face with an impenetrable mystery. But even here surmisals may serve an end. We awake in the morning and our first thought is of God. This gives us the blessed sense of God's nearness, and as at the hand of God, we begin the day. But some other morning this is different. We perceive nothing of God. Our heart 45

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