To be near unto God - pagina 482

What

again

varieties

what

in

each

of

these

groups

difference again in growth, leaf, color

and

in fragrance. Does not every more richly developed rose addre^ us as a something by itself,

with a charm and beauty

Such

all

its

own?

the case in the whole creation of God. He calls every star in the firmament by name, and this implies the expression of an own being.. And on the earth every mountain-line differs, and every animal, even every insect, as well as every vegetable and food that springs from the ground. And in like manner every one of the children of

men

is

"after his own kind;" every race, every people, every family and every family-member differs from every other. No mother is ever mistaken in her children. And so it is also in the spiritual. The Holy Spirit divideth to every man severally as he will, (I Cor. 12:11) or to express it still more strongly: one can not be a standard for an other. Paul who was himself an Apostle refuses to be this. And he declares is

every

tribe,

with utmost emphasis: Every man, i. e. each individual, hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that (I Cor. 7:7).

So life,

it is,

and so

if

shall

it

it

be

must

be, because our spiritual

real,

is

not our work, but a

work of God. It is a difference as between writing and printing. Wliat comes from the press is in all the copies of the same work precisely alike. Every man's handwriting on the other hand exhibits a character of its own. It is the difference between the products of nature and the 478

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