, is to
turn to some one whom they can trust--not intending to depend
constantly and helplessly upon them--and to get set in the right road.
Of course, as I have said, care and sorrow, heaviness and
sadness--even disillusionment--must come; but the reason of that is
because we must not settle too close to the sweet and kindly earth,
but be ready to unfurl our wings for the passage over sea; and to what
new country of God, what unknown troops and societies of human
spirits, what gracious reality of dwelling-place, of which our beloved
fields and woods and streams are nothing but the gentle and sweet
symbols, our flight may bear us, I cannot tell; but that we are all in
the mind of God, and that we cannot wander beyond the reach of His
hand or the love of His heart, of this I am more sure than I am of
anything else in this world where familiarity and mystery are so
strangely entwined.
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