No one can get your sins forgiven but yourself. No one can obey God
for you. No other one can do your work for Christ, or render your
account at the judgment-seat.
In the realm of experience also the same is true. Each person suffers
alone, as if there were no other being in the universe. Friends may
stand by us in our hours of pain or sorrow, and may sympathize with us
or administer comfort or alleviation, but they enter not really into
the experiences. In these we are alone. No one can meet your
temptations for you, or fight your battles, or endure your trials. The
tenderest friendship, the holiest love, cannot enter into the
solitariness in which each one of us lives apart.
"Still in each heart of hearts a hidden deep
Lies, never fathomed by its dearest, best."
This aloneness of life sometimes becomes very real in consciousness.
All great souls experience it as they rise out of and above the common
mass of men in their thoughts and hopes and aspirations, as the
mountains rise from the level of the vale and little hills. All great
leaders of men ofttimes must stand alone, as they move in advance of
the ranks of their followers. The battles of truth and of progress
have usually been fought by lonely souls. Elijah, for example, in a
season of disheartenment and despondency, gave it as part of the
exceptional burden of his life that he was the only one in the field
for God.
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