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THE PILGRIMAGE OF FAITH
“One sweetly solemn thought
Comes to me o’er and o’er:
I am nearer my home today
Than 1 have ever been before.
“Nearer my Father’s house
Where the many mansions be;
Nearer the great white throne,
Nearer the crystal sea.
“Nearer the bound of life,
Where we lay our burdens down;
Nearer leaving the cross,
Nearer gaining the crown.”
(4) Observation teaches us that much in this life is
inequality find injustice. As far as this world alone is
concerned, honesty is not always the best policy, Judas
fares about as well as John, and Nero quaffs more of the
wine of “living” than Paul. The voice of experience
speaks to us that if this life is all, it is scarcely worth the
living. In the words of Robert Browning:
“Truly there needs be another life to come!
If this be all
And another life await us not for one,
I say, ‘Tis a poor cheat, a stupid bungle,
A wretched failure, I for one protest
Against, and I hurl it back with scorn.”
(5) Life as we live it here is largely illusion. (See F,
W. Robertson, Serwzons, “The Illusiveness of Life”), Our
seizses deceive us. They deceive us with respect to distance,
shape, and color. That which, afar off, seems to be oval,
turns out to be circular when modified by the perspective
of distance; that which appears to be a speck, becomes a
vast body, on nearer approach. Stand in the middle of a
railroad track, and look in either direction, and the rails
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