To be near unto God - pagina 594

circles is superficial, which brings the kindly smile to the face, but does not evoke it from the heart. Our life with God can not subject itself to the mechanical. Even as in nature, the utterance of life in the spiritual realm is organic. And as every tree unfolds a different leaf, and every stem a flower-bud of its own, so every human heart discloses itself to God in its own way, sings an own song unto God in an own tune, and in the secret walk with the Almighty tastes an intimacy of enjoyment which corresponds to the proper need of its own inner existence, and can not be enjoyed in just that way by any one else. If anywhere, the apostolic word applies here:

"With one

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members of the same family, there yet such a great difference in what is personal that two brothers or two sisters only very rarely exhibit entire likeness of appearance in their alike in the

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mystic, religious nature. A sharply marked difference

with respect to not only between two or more persons; a similar difference also shows itself with the selfsame person. Your own sacred sensations in your search after nearness to God are by no means always of like nature. It is evident that they differ moreover in degree of distinctness of impression. But that is not all. They also difthis

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They are altogether fer in character and nature. different in moments of intense joy from what they are in moments of dire need and great 690

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