None Beside Thee

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Now under all outward rebellion and wickedness there is in every man who ought to be a friend of God—and that means every man whom God has made—a need of reconciliation. To get back to God, that is the struggle. The soul is God–like, and seeks its own. It wants its Father. There is an orphanage, a home-sickness of the heart which has gone up into the ear of God, and called the Savior, the Reconciler, to meet it by His wondrous life and death. I, for my part, love to see in every restlessness of man’s moral life everywhere, whatever forms it takes, the struggles of this imprisoned desire. The reason may be rebellious, and vehemently cast aside the whole story of the New Testament, but the soul is never wholly at its rest away from God.

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