To be near unto God - pagina 483

A factory manufactures after a fixed model, everything alike; in nature in which God works, everything differs and everything exhibits a something of its own.

factory.

If now the spiritual life of piety is forced into a selfsame mould, the work of man counteracts the work of God; then there ensues spiritual unnaturalness, painted flowers, but no real flowers then no virtue goes out from it, and this sort of imprinted piety does not bring one nearer to God, but rather builds up a wall of separation Then there is between the soul and God. spiritual dullness, depression and gloom, whereas God's children should glory in their freedom, and by reason of this free, happy feehng of the breaking of bands they should jubilate with a song of angels in the heart. The lark which meets the sun with a song, not the snail which marks its slimy track on the hard clay, is the

image of the redeemed in Christ. Only let not liberty here be mistaken for license. Every bird sings with a voice of its own, but received that voice from God. And so has God, who created you, implanted and increated in the hidden depths of your being that peculiar something from which your character, your person and likewise your own form of childship springs. Everything in us also is organically con-

The mingling of blood, the sensitive nerves, the relation between understanding and imagination, the stringing of the heart, the embroidery of tendencies and sympathies, the

nected. life of

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