To be near unto God - pagina 123

And when the "Cultivate the the atmosphere except as God

matter is pressed, and it is said, secret walk with God and drink in of the life above," no one responds, draws him. And if we are privilthis secret fellowship, it but shows

eged to know what excellent grace has been bestowed upon us. Let us therefore with St. Paul bow the knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that this glorious, privilege may be not taken from us, but that from this secret walk abounding might may continuall}^ be granted to strengthen us in the inner man. 23

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of material interests and above the temptation of the appetites than the confession, "God is a Spirit;" from which of itself the second flows,

that he who worships Him can not and must not do so except in spirit and in truth. This excludes from God and from the worship of his name everything that is material, sensual or what is bound to form. God is a Spirit. This liberates the soul from every chain that might bind or oppress it contrary to its nature; always on condition, of course, that God, who is Spirit, is worshipped in spirit and in truth with all the love of the heart. That God is Spirit brings all idolatry to naught, all creature-worship, and dismisses every sensual horror which idolatry brought with it and which hastened the downfall of the nations of antiquit3^ Not to analyze the riches

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