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Show Sj GOD ALWAYS, IN HUMANITY a Impossible to Imagine the Time When t; He Will Withdraw His Presence Pres-ence From Us. So long as there be in the human heart one fiber to vibrate at the I sound of that which is true and just and honorable, so long as the instinctively in-stinctively pure soul prefers purity to life, so long as there be found friends of truth ready to sacrifice i their peace in the cause of science, ' friends of righteousness to devote themselves to holy and useful works l! of mercy, womanly hearts to love " whatever is good, beautiful and pure, artists to render it by sound and color Si and words of inspiration so long d God will dwell within us. ie It could only be when egoism, meanness of soul, narrowness of mind, e indifference to knowledge, contempt j for human rights, forgetfulness of that which is great and noble, invaded the world it could only be then that !l God would be in humanity no more, e But far from us be thoughts like ;r these! Our aspirations, our suffer-!e suffer-!e ings, our very faults and temerities, J are the proof that the ideal lives in us. t Tes, human life is still something di-it di-it Tine! Our apparent negations are , often nothing more than the scruples of timid minds that fear to pass beyond be-yond the limits of their knowledge. 1- They are a worthier homage to the l, Divinity than the hypocrital adoration ie of a spirit given over to routine. God ;, is still within us. Est Deus in nobis. Benan. |