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_ It is as life matures, that the weight of
life, the burden, of this unintelligible would, and
the mystery of the hidden God, are felt. A vast
amount of insincerity is produced by mistaking
this. We expect in the religion of the child the ex-
perience which can only be true in the religion of the
man. We force into their lifes the language which
describes the wrestling of the soul with God. It is
twenty years too soon _ They know no-
thing yet _ they ought to know nothing of God but as
the Father who is around their beds - they ought to
see nothing yet but Heaven, and angels
ascending and descending.
Robertson's Sermons

And this is our struggle - the strug-
gle. Let any true man go down into the depths
of his own being, and answer us, - what is
the cry that comes from the most real ?
of his nature? It is the cry for daily bread?
Jacob asked for that in his first
communing with God - preservation safely.
Is it ever this, - to be forgiven our sins?
Jacob had a sin to be forgiven, and in that
most solemn moment of his existance he did
not say a syllable about it. Or is it this -
"Hallowed be thy name?" "No, my brother. Out
of our frail and yet sublime humanity, the
demand that rises in the earthier hours of
of our religion may be this - Save my soul; but
in the most unearthy moments it is this - "Tekk
me thy name." We move throught a world of
mystery; and the deepest question is. What is
the being that - is ever near, sometimes felt,
never seen, - That which has haunted us