To be near unto God - pagina 207

with all the heart does this love begin to glow in us with real human feeling. Love of the heart is irresistible, mutual attracThe Scripture speaks of it more than once tion. When as: "a cleaving of the soul unto God." the magnet draws the steel so closely to itself that there is even no more air between, the steel cleaves unto the magnet. Hence when so tender an affection springs up between people, that at length everything that separated them falls away, heart cleaves unto heart and soul cleaves unto In the same way there is no perfect love soul. for God until everything is removed that made And it also separation between him and us. applies to this love that our heart, and through the heart, our soul cleaves unto God. This is a strong and forcible expression, such as the Scripture uses again and again. So strong that we ask: Shall it ever be true with us? But As a this is no question for the child of God. rule, indeed, a mountain of hindrances rises between the soul and God. In spite of this, however,

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What is called power of attraction in nature, in the spiritual is called love. Love is not something artificial, something studied, but is of itself.

When any

one loves you, you feel it. You feel whether the love which interests j'ou, and draws 199

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