To be near unto God - pagina 68

nal and the picture. But not so with a photoBy the operation of light upon the graph. sensitive plate the original here creates his own image and forms the features after those of his own face. And what a person makes in a photograph is an exceedingly weak imitation, which only resembles from afar what God did when he said: "Let us make man after our likeness," and then created him so. Intimate fellowship is only possible between people of like mind. There is fellowship of a An impressionable mind less intimate sort.

communes with nature when she

is arrayed in her beautiful garments of spring. This fellowship with plants and flowers is more intimate than with the starry skies. It is closer still with the horse we ride, with the dog that greets us joyfully at the gate, and the lark whose

morning song charms wood and dale. With stream and mountain, moon and star, with flower and domestic animal, however, fellowship is always from a distance. An animal may look us in the face with marked expression, but we do not understand it. Animal life True fellowship is different from our own. only comes when we get in touch with man. Even as St. Paul put the question to the Corinthians, "What man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him?" (1-2:11). Man alone can understand man. The more human we are ourselves, the more fully will

we understand

the truly

human

in others.

Of course, always with this difference, that the more nearly we are alike, the closer will be our communion. A compatriot comes closer to us than a foreigner.

A

member

of the family, a

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