To be near unto God - pagina 345

but he gets farther and farther away from it. The transition is continuous from night into clearer day, until at length there is fellowship with God, which the world neither knows nor understands, but which to him is highest reality, the source, the ever free-flowing fountain of the strength of his life. Many Christian people, alas, after conversion love to remain in slumber, and consequently lose the joy of this closer communion with God. They are the sick ones among the brethren, from whom no virtue can go out. There are others, however, God be praised, who know nothing of standing still, who enter ever more deeply into the secret of the infinite, and now waken every morning with

God, labor

all

day long with God, and lay them-

selves down at night to sleep with God. And thej' are the salt of the earth, and of God's church

among

the saints, and they keep the church from desecration and from languishing away in death. 64

"WITHOUT GOD IN THE WORLD." Not only with individuals, but in broad and influential circles denial of God breaks forth, This stalks abroad, and puts every mask aside. was different even twenty years ago. Individual atheists openly boasted of infidelity, and thereby aroused aversion, which with many turned into abhorrence. Many people were done with religion in any form, but to be taken for atheists was considered an insult. They were not atheists. They had broken with traditional views of Divine things, but the eye of their soul was open to the eternal, 341

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