To be near unto God - pagina 64

image shows of it. The sodality of the Original and the image is felt and understood at once. One can not be an image, or image-bearer and an, exhibitor of the same apart from the relation that binds him to the Original. If a picture is a good likeness, it is this because the original is what the likeness shows that he is. This is more striking with a photograph than with a painted portrait or with a face that is cut from marble. For with these the artist painter or sculptor comes in as the third factor between the original and the picture. But not so with a photograph. By the operation of light upon the sensitive plate the original here dteates 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 less

intimate sort. An impressionable mind 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 is different from our own. True fellowship only comes when we get in touch with man. Even as St. Paul put

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