Any other application of the word is illegitimate and degrading. We are using a gloriously spacious and wealthy term to label a petty and superficial gratification, which is as transient and uncertain as the ephemera that dance through the feverish hour of a single summer's day. It is a mere sensation, having no more relationship to life in its reality than the sluggish and ill-defined existence of the amoeba has to the large mental and spiritual exercises of the Apostle John. All other combinations fail. By no other fellowships can we produce the resultant.
Life is the unique product of a unique union.
Such was the rich and ineffable life of the Apostle Paul. Let us turn our thoughts upon it in prayerful meditation. The first condition of real life is something to love , and the second condition is something to revere . For a living issue each of the elements is essential. Each deprived of the other is robbed of its dynamic.