Nature shows the Divine perfections, but we may still doubt if it proves the Divine personality. The personal man yearns for the knowledge of a personal God. When my heart is breaking, sorrow cannot sob itself to rest on the bosom of immensity. When my steps are sliding, I cannot grasp the hand of the Infinite Unknown. When I am weary with the burden of some dead secret, I cannot confide it to an empty abstraction, or an Impersonal Idea. When I am dying, I need God to be near me; I want to feel His touch and to know His love, as the Good Shepherd whose rod and staff can comfort me, and whose smile can light up the valley of the shadow of death.

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