The secret of your
own heart you can never know; but you can know Him who knows its secret.
Look up, my darling; see the heavens and the earth. You do not feel them,
and I do not call upon you to feel them. It would be both useless and
absurd to do so. But just let them look at you for a moment, and then tell
me whether it must not be a blessed life that creates such a glory as this
All."
She stood silent for a moment, looked up at the sky, looked round on the
earth, looked far across the sea to the setting sun, and then turned her
eyes upon me. They were filled with tears, but whether from feeling, or
sorrow that she could not feel, I would not inquire. I made haste to speak
again.
"As this world of delight surrounds and enters your bodily frame, so does
God surround your soul and live in it. To be at home with the awful source
of your being, through the child-like faith which he not only permits, but
requires, and is ever teaching you, or rather seeking to rouse up in you,
is the only cure for such feelings as those that trouble you. Do not say it
is too high for you. God made you in his own image, therefore capable of
understanding him.
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