The Gist of the Sermon: An Old Message for Young Men : On the Ground-Plan of ...
The Gist of the Sermon: An Old Message for Young Men : On the Ground-Plan of ...
Herbert Christian Alleman, Samuel Cox
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We need only go to the world with wide-open eyes. It was this experience which inspired these words: **Weak and little minds find here below a nourishment which suffices their intellect and satisfies their love. They do not discover the emptiness of visible things, simply because they do not sound them to the bottom. But a soul which God has drawn nearer to the infinite very soon feels the narrow limits within which he is put; it experiences moments of inexpres- sible sadness, the cause of whic...h for a long time remains a mystery; it even seems as if [60] vGooQle ^C^ experiment of WvHiorvu some strange occurrence of events must have happened thus to disturb him. The trouble comes from a higher source. In reading the lives of the saints, we find that nearly all of them have felt that sweet melancholy of which the ancients said that there was no genivs toith- out it In fact, melancholy is inseparable from every mind that looks below the surface and every heart that feels profoundly. Not that we should take complacency in it, for it is a malady that enervates when we do not shake it off; and it has but two remedies — Death or God^^ (Lacordaire).
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