From: Reddington <st...@ra...> - 2009-12-30 19:22:04
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Yet it is He who gives all reality and beauty even to those things which we would fain choose instead of Him--He alone. The deep wisdom of the Cross knows that it is pain which gives its grand reality to love, so making it fit for Eternity, and that sacrifice is the ultimate secret of fulfilment. Truly those who lose their life for His sake shall find it. Not to have Him is to renounce the possibility of having anything: to have Him is to have all things added unto us. So far we have considered this poem as a record of personal experience, but it may be taken also as a message for the age in which we live. Regarded so, it is an appeal to pagan England to come back from all its idols, from its attempt to force upon the earth a worship which she repudiates: "Worship not me but God, the angels urge." The angels of earth say that, as well as those of heaven--the angels of |