Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

ound that
melteth them ;
Introductory Essay.
" He
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sendeth out His word and
He bloweth with His wind and
the waters flow."
Even humanly speaking, then, the fact that
GOD has, to say the least, permitted this
thought of union to fix itself in so many souls,
is, in itself, an earnest of its accomplishment.
Perhaps it may be true that no great
idea takes
large possession of men s minds, but that, in the
Providence of it GOD, is in the way to be ac
complished. For its underlying truth gives it
force,
its root in man s affections insures its
The bud is the earnest of the fruit.
growth.
So is
it, probably, in truths and principles
of
nature. But the longing for Ke-umon is super
natural. It is the fruit of Divine love shed
abroad in various hearts. It is the Divine con
viction, that what God willed must be. It is
the sense of awakened consciences, that the
duty which our Divine Redeemer enjoined,
should be ; that, whatever grounds may have
forced its suspension, it is a duty unfulfilled :
that it must be fulfilled, if there be any way of
fulfilling it, without sacrificing duties as sacred,
as Divine, as solemnly enjoined; that we are
bound, as we are His disciples,
to see whether it
cannot be fulfilled, how we can contribute to
its fulfilment, whether the obstacles to its ful
filment may not be rightfully and lawfully
surmounted.