Article August 13, 1932 Issue

The Open Door

FRANK HOBDEN

A Simple incident is often the means by which something immeasurably greater is revealed to us, as when, on a starlit night, the stirring of a tiny leaf on a high bough discloses to the upturned gaze of the watcher the bright light of some distant planet.

"Leave your door open, father!" This earnest request was made by a little boy of ten after his father had responded to a call for help in the night. The father had tenderly cared for the child during a short but violent attack of sickness, and had then seen him safely to his bed, with words of encouragement and reassurance. The door was left open, and the father returned to his own room across the passage.

With the child's simple request still ringing in his ears, the father's thoughts turned from human parenthood to man's much grander spiritual relationship to God, and there came into his consciousness a wonderful realization of the nearness and availability at all times of our heavenly Father, between whom and His children there is always an open door. In God's image there is no willfulness, pride, or ignorance to close the door, and so exclude him from the comfort of God's presence.

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