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To be near unto God - pagina 209

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To be near unto God - pagina 209

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no speaking without voice. But it is the soul which employs the ear as an instrument to hear, and which speaks in the voice, if the saying shall be true. In the same way there is no drinking in of love, and no exhibition of love, without the heart; but it is always the soul that employs the heart as instrument by which to enter, with its deepest and most hidden life, upon the wealth of love.

To be able to say, therefore, that we love God with the heart, will not suffice. With the heart one can feel sweetly moved by enticing love, and become aware of reciprocal feeling of love within, and be quite innocent of actual true love, simply because the soul has no share in it. In grand This is strikingly evident in art. opera we listen to a touching recital of human suffering. At the time we are deeply moved and carried along. The sensations of anxious forebodings, described in song, were sj^mpathetically felt in the heart. We lived with the characters But presof the plot and shared their suffering. ently the play is over. For a moment the impression stays by. But an hour later everything is forgotten and we continue our ordinary course The case is as though nothing had happened. not that the heart had not been moved, for even shallow feelings touch it. But the soul had no part in it, and therefore it did not touch us. The same thing continually happens in life, A mother can not detect a tear in the eye of her child, but is at once almost moved to tears herself, and at the moment will do everything she can to comfort her darling and help him to forget his But in many instances this does not go woes. 205

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Bekijk de hele uitgave van dinsdag 1 januari 1918

Abraham Kuyper Collection | 620 Pagina's

To be near unto God - pagina 209

Bekijk de hele uitgave van dinsdag 1 januari 1918

Abraham Kuyper Collection | 620 Pagina's