To be near unto God - pagina 219

and normal, save

as the rank and file of the people take the confessional standards of the Church as the starting point of their views and convictions of life. Hence it is ruinous to love for God with ''all the mind," when Christian confessions are left out from a man's convictions of life, and when it is falsely preached that evers'thing depends upon the mysticism of the love of the heart and upon the act of the will. He who drives this propaganda impoverishes the love for

b}^ excluding from it all the mind, and does not tread in the footsteps of Jesus, but diametrically and directly opposes his supreme com-

God,

mand.

With this, however, love for God with all the mind has not yet reached its limit. Apart from science and Christian confessions there is the ordinary daily consciousness, the activity of the mind in daily avocations, in social intercourse, in plans we make, in lines of action which we lay out for ourselves, in intentions which we foster, in reading, in thoughts about persons and affairs, in representations, in imaginations, in appreciation of art and literature, in review of the past and in outlook upon the future. All this together forms the many-sided activity of our consciousness; it is the daily sphere of activity of all the mind; the school and workshop of our thought, study and contemplation; and all this can go on either without God, or continuously and at every point it can be inspired and ruled b.v the thought of God, and by the love of his

name.

With every one all this

for

God.

of us, therefore, Jesus claims is his will that love for God

It

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