To be near unto God - pagina 238

created after the purifies this love. the love for God.

Image of God. But the Spirit Love for man must be hke There must be no di£ference

between these two, or else the love for man will detract from the love for God in the heart. Thus it becomes more and more a process of distinction. Love of whatever of God there is in man. Likewise hate of whatever of the Evil One there is in man, with the serious purpose of love to oppose it, until it is gone from his heart. This is the way to discover whatever of God, hidden and latent through it be, still glows in other men's hearts, to encourage this spark and not to tolerate its extinction. Until at length this neighborly love reaches down to the latest trace, which in eveiy man on this side of the grave, even in those who have most deeply fallen, still reminds us of his creation after the Image of God, and of the possibility of its restoration. Even as the lover of choice porcelains gathers with great care the shards of the broken dish because he appreciates their worth in the possible case of their being glued together again. But even so your love for your neighbor has become nothing else than love for whatever of God there still remains in him. The second unto the first.

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"THE IMAGE OF THE INVISIBLE GOD." God

a Spirit. God is Invisible. But with increasing clearness He reveals himself. There are glimmerings through and back of the veil is

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