To be near unto God - pagina 492

And as with the child, so it is with luxuriantly. period the lad and the young daughter. In every soul of life there is an own form of life of the He who understands this with its own needs. and disciplines, supports and strengthens makes the child, and leads him to God, and so While he who always endeavors gains for God. of soul to apply the model of his own condition dwarfs to that of the child mars development and

pleases

It

is

not otherwise with the great difference

which God has ordained between man and woman. There are men who make one think of a woman, and among women in our times ambition gams ground not only to develop themselves more independently, which is right, but also to obtain man; which this development in a form like to But apart goes against Divine appointment.. from these eccentricities, every one feels, and

knows that the soul-life of women bears another stamp, and is differently strung of God, than the Perceptions, powers, feelings, of men. palmtalents differ. The lily is not inferior to the another tree but is has received another beauty, The same sun in God,s heaven glory of God. works different effects upon one plant than upon

soul-life

another. And so it is with regard to being near to God on the part of the man, and being near to God on It is the one Sun of the part of the woman. righteousness which works differently upon each The mother, the father, who looks upon son and daughter as one, and does not treat them differmore ently sometimes spoils so much which with '

intelligent insight

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