God is here with him, upholding, warming, delighting, teaching him-making life a good thing to him. God gives him himself, though he knows it not. But when God withdraws from a man as far as that can be without the man’s ceasing to be; when the man feels himself abandoned, hanging in a ceaseless vertigo of existence upon the verge of the gulf of his being, without support, without refuge, without aim, without end-for the soul has no weapons wherewith to destroy herself-with no inbreathing of joy, with nothing to make life good;-then will he listen in agony for the faintest sound of life from
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