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Chapter 7 Through The Mist
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THE year that followed was the saddest Christie had ever known,for she suffered a sort of poverty which is more difficult to bearthan actual want, since money cannot lighten it, and the rarestcharity alone can minister to it. Her heart was empty and she couldnot fill it; her soul was hungry and she could not feed it; life wascold and dark and she could not warm and brighten it, for she knewnot where to go.
She tried to help herself by all the means in her power, and wheneffort after effort failed she said: "I am not good enough yet todeserve happiness. I think too much of human love, too little ofdivine. When I have made God my friend perhaps He will let me findand keep one heart to make life happy with. How shall I know God?
Who will tell me where to find Him, and help me to love and leanupon Him as I ought?"In all sincerity1 she asked these questions, in all sincerity shebegan her search, and with pathetic patience waited for an answer.
She read many books, some wise, some vague, some full ofsuperstition, all unsatisfactory to one who wanted a living God. Shewent to many churches, studied many creeds2, and watched their fruitsas well as she could; but still remained unsatisfied. Some were coldand narrow, some seemed theatrical4 and superficial, some stern andterrible, none simple, sweet, and strong enough for humanity's manyneeds. There was too much machinery5, too many walls, laws, andpenalties between the Father and His children. Too much fear, toolittle love; too many saints and intercessors; too little faith inthe instincts of the soul which turns to God as flowers to the sun.
Too much idle strife7 about names and creeds; too little knowledge ofthe natural religion which has no name but godliness, whose creed3 isboundless and benignant as the sunshine, whose faith is as thetender trust of little children in their mother's love.
Nowhere did Christie find this all-sustaining power, this paternalfriend, and comforter, and after months of patient searching shegave up her quest, saying,
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