"It can only be because we do not yet see God as he is--and that
must be because we do not yet really understand Jesus--do not see the glory
of God in his face. God is just like Jesus--exactly like him!"
And the parson fell a wondering how it could be that so many, gentle and
guileless as this woman-child, recoiled from the thought of the perfect
One. Why were they not always and irresistibly drawn toward the very idea
of God? Why, at least, should they not run to see and make sure whether
God was indeed such a one or not? whether he was really Love itself--or
only loved them after a fashion? It set him thinking afresh about many
things; and he soon began to discover that he had in fact been teaching a
good many things without _knowing_ them; for how could he _know_ things
that were not true, and therefore _could not_ be known? He had indeed been
_saying_ that God was Love, but he had yet been teaching many things about
him that were not lovable!
They sat thinking and talking, with silences between; and while they
thought and talked, the day-star was all the time rising unnoted in their
hearts.
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