To be near unto God - pagina 467

And though, when the thrilling of the feeling. the child shall have become a youth and a young man, this fellowship will express itself in words and in ideas, the root of this communion, even in later years, will reach deeper than the lips that speak the word. What does not the look of the eye convey, the expression of the face, a tear a smile, and how sweetly does not operate m and under all this the communion of the same blood, the tenderness of hiding love? All this

is

not uncon^^cious, but constitutes part

of the consciousness.

It

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as the fragrance of a

an atmosphere of love which we breathe in. It is the perfume and the atmosphere of the heart, which we drink in with full draughts. And truly, you well know what the scent of a rose is, and of an hyacinth; you are perfectly conscious of it, even though the ablest botanist is not able to analyze this perfume in ideas, nor to describe Thus to be consciously near unto it in words. God, means far more than you can understand, or express in words. It is a becoming aware, a perceiving, a feeling, which may not be attributed to the nerves. That creates false mysticism. But it is a perceiving and an expressing of self in a spiritual way, in the immediate union of your inner sense with the life of God. flower, as

To make

this plain the Scripture distinguishes

between the soul and our inner being. It speaks on one hand of the heart and of the soul, and on the other hand of something that lies far behind and deep underneath the two. This is expressed 469

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