The design of love / written by E.B.

  • Parker, George Williams.
Date:
1893
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Credit: The design of love / written by E.B. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    with special “ visions ” seen, before the worker was called to work !—Because the constant attempt to “ stick to facts ” (the favourite saying of an old teacher) while in search of knowledge, the desire to seize principles and grasp the practical, to find “ 0amity in Unity; Simplicity in Com- plexity /” as the key to the working of the universe, was but the ever-nearing presence of a TRUTH who was waiting to re real IIIMS EL F! Because ears that were deaf to the Babel sounds of Earth, should clearly hear the .ZEolian strains of Heaven ! Because the craving for love should be satisfied by Infinite Love itself, a deeper insight into His grand and glorious plan for the re-at-one- ment of all, and a present fore-taste of that peace :— The peaceful conscience of a life-work done!—which will close the struggle of Time with Humanity ! Bat why adopt as name E.B. (“ Elijah Barjohanan ”; —Elijah the son of John) ? Because it keeps in view (1) the connection between the first Elijah (the Tishbite) and the second (John the Baptizer):— (2) Also that between this second Elijah and first JOHN, and the third Elijali and second John {John Boanerges, or “the Beloved,” the son of Zabdi and seer of Patinos): — (3) Also that between all these, and HIM who will re-appear with more than their spirit and fire! Often during the course of an arduous task, when oppressed by the feeling of working under high pressure so well known to Our Lord himself—the sense of having a great work to do in a given time, whose duration ivas not exactly known !—did one feel tempted to say with Isaiah, “ Who is sufficient for these things ?”—[not “ good enough that was decided by a divine choice ; but “ able to bear the mental and physical strain of work ”]—often did the tempta- tion arise to take things easily; but I) UTY forbade; the quiet assurance of victory!—the knowledge that God never gives work to do, without also giving all that is required for doing it, IIEpaying all expenses ! So the only thing was to “go on!”—with the aid of the three P’s, PATIENCE, PLODDING, and PRAYER; “ and the greatest of these is ” Prayer !—although as the subterranean heat melts the super incumbent rocks, so did “the fire of Jehovah” consume me !