To be near unto God - pagina 59

away with disease. But there is something more in you, something that is hidden in your inner being; and that hidden something For in death is your soul, which you must love. you must return it in all honor and holiness to God who gave it. From this the sense is developed that the soul There is mutual approach between the is solitary. soul and the world. We have been endowed with the capacities of sense, which like so many winhealth or wastes

dows, afford us outlooks upon the world, and place us in communication with it. God imparted unto us the capacity to feel and to sympathize, so that even when we are alone we can share the feelings of others, and at long distances of separation rejoice with those who do rejoice, and weep with those who weep. We have received the gift of speech whereby the soul can express itself and the soul of another can speak in our ear. Speech has been committed to writing and thanks to this wonderful invention, which likewise has been given us of God, the soul can commune with preceding generations and with contemporaries w^hom we have never met. Moreover, we have a sense and a knowledge of a higher world above, which makes it seem at times as though angels of God descended upon us, and from us ascended again. And the highest of all is the gate of the heart through which God can draw near to the soul and the soul can go forth to God. But in spite of all this the soul itself is solitary. It remains apart from the world, from nature, from angels and from God. And thus by itself it is something, it has something, which remains its own, pure and simple, and with respect to which 55

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