But we, brothers, being bereaved of you for a short season, in presence, not in heart, tried even harder to see your face with great desire,

 There is something fundamentally wrong with a religion which shuts a man off from his fellow-men. If a man really loves God that love must run over into love for his fellow-men. So far from wanting to hug his privileges to himself, he will be filled with a passion to share them. 