To be near unto God - pagina 142

Does this man or woman, when the has passed the hps, come away from God, or has the soul, even in devotions, been as far as ever away from him? Undoubtedly there are always some who in praj'-er and at other times seek fellowship with God in their heart. Upon inquiry, however, we learn that the magnetic drawing did not originate with themselves, but that God drew them. We do not know why Divine power operates in the case of one and not of another. The fact remains that as the magnet draws the steel to itself, God can draw the soul. And when he does, the drawing is irresistible, i^nd the soul seeks God because God draws it. Is the approach of the soul to God through the understanding, will, feeling or imagination, or is through an inexplicable mysterious working it which we can not name? The answer differs according to those who give it. The one attributes be repressed:

Amen

it

to intellectual

and doctrinal knowledge

of

God;

the other to the fellowship of love; a' third to submission of the will a fourth to visions a fifth to inspirations, and the more people are asked, the more widely the answers differ. Here disposition and temperament play the chief role. The ;

;

subtle, analytical investigator of ideas and definitions entrenches himself in strong doctrinal confessions; the man of action, in devotion to practical ends; he whose nature is finely strung, in the note of pensive longing which he elicits from his p'^irt'ons; and the imaginative mind, inclined to fancies of every sort, in representations and ingenious imagery. Every one after his own kind, we may say. Such is the case now, and so it was 138

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