To be near unto God - pagina 515

Patmos it was the same. There, too, the seer's eye beheld the holy One, and also the Chenibim who reveal God's majesty, and what is more, from ''the elders," i. e. from the circles of the "Thou, Lord, blest, he heard the hymn of praise :

worthy to receive glory and honor and power I" And so throughout the entire Scripture there runs a golden line of heavenly light, which brings the prayers and the hymns of praise of God'fl art

people into fellowship with the songs of praise of angels and the redeemed. It is not only that the angels and the blest in unapproachable light, and we on earth in our twilight, sing praises to the Trinity, but that there is a connection between the voices of angels and the tongues of men. Indeed, sometimes it seems that we on earth but echo what is sung around God's throne in heaven, and that our heart only finds rest when there is holy accord and blessed harmony between created spirits above and the creature that on earth thirsts after the nearness of God. But this presents the question whether this indispensable fellowship with God's angels and the redeemed around the heavenly throne has not been too much lost from sight in our circles. That we should be on our guard against abuse in Idolatry has not this matter, is self-evident. improbably arisen from this search after interEven within course with the world of spirits. the church of Christ the search after this fellowship has all too frequently drawn souls away from the nearness of God, rather than introduced them into his holy presence. Dealings of the soul, if we may so express ourselves, with angels and the blest, have tempted anxious souls all too often 511

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