M. Guyau, in his “Sketch of Morality,” relates a dream that
he had. He felt himself soaring in heaven, far above the
earth, and heard a weary sound ascending as of torrents amid
mountain silence and solitude. He could distinguish human
voices--sobs mingled with thanksgiving, and groans interrupted
by benedictions; all melting into one heartrending symphony.
The sky seemed darkened. To one with him he asked, “Do you
hear that?” The angel answered, “These are the prayers of men,
ascending from the earth to God.” Beginning to cry like a child,
the dreamer exclaimed, “What tears I should shed were I that
God!” Guyau adds: “I loosened the hand of the angel, and let
myself fall down again to the earth, thinking there remained
in me too much humanity to make it possible for me to live in
heaven.”
It is that earth-cry that brings God down to help the needy.
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