THE DIVINE REVEALED THROUGH THE HUMAN.
Hume once said that when he thought of his mother he believed in immortality. There are many to whom God seems afar off; they do not doubt Him, but they can not lay hold of Him as a companion in the hour of need. To such natures it is a blessed providence when some human soul becomes a translator and revealer of that divine Helper who has not yet become a divine Father in the thought and feeling of a weak and sinning child. Human love becomes in this way the prelude to the divine love; for we hold fast to the mother or wife whom we love; we long to gain and hold her confidence; we do the things that please her, and we leave undone the things that distress her. We square our life by her life, out of pure love for her. A beautiful human soul always suggests God, as the shining in the still waters at night makes us instantly aware that a star is above us. We do not need to look at it; we know that it is there. Whoever in this confused world has the supreme blessedness of living close to a beautiful human soul, can not look into the pure depths of that soul, day after day, without a constant vision of God.—The Outlook.