To be near unto God - pagina 44

ever larger knowledge of selves.

And

him and

this, their thirst,

of

them-

can only express

my

God, aside from what the prayer: O see and discover myself, teach Thou me. Instruct me ever more in holy fellowship with

itself in I

Thee. 8

"SONGS IN THE NIGHT." Night is a mystery. For most people sleep is a going out from life, in order, in the course of seven or eight hours, to come back to it. When they fall asleep, they are gone. And when the hour-hand on the dial points, say some seven or more hours further on, they arise and resume their part in life. There is at most an occasional remembrance of a dream, but for the rest it is all a blank. A third part of life is spent in sleep. At thirty years of age a man has practically lived but twenty. The remaining ten years have passed away in unconsciousness.

But sleep serves a purpose. We retire weary body and mind and with new strength we arise. As far as we know, we were inactive in

in

sleep. We did not think, nor observe, nor will, nor work. This entire cessation of activity is the real ordinance of night. As long as we are in health and in full possession of our powers, and not overburdened with cares, we sleep, undisturbed by outward things, in this way and in no other. Why this has been so ordained, we do not know. For though we say that we become weary through work, that our strength is exhausted and demands rest to recuperate, it means nothing. For at once we ask: Why this 36

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