To be near unto God - pagina 245

seated as he is at the right hand of God, he exercises over lands and nations, generations, famihes and individuals. The course of the world's history and the final destiny of every individual life decides for him or against him. In loyal subjection to him, the world will rejoice in peace, turned against him, it will be troubled, and will continue to be troubled, until it either returns to him, or in rebellion against him works out its own destruction. And therefore ever\' effort to weaken the Christian religion and to detach it from Christ, or to mingle it with philosophic and heathen in\'entions must result in spiritual and moral He who in any wise puts the retrogression. supreme name of Christ on a line with that of Buddha, Confucius or Mohammed, undermines the Christian religion, and all religion, together with the happ\' development of mankind, since it all leads away from the knowledge of God, falsifies it, and hastens its loss. And while to know God is itself eternal life, to be enjoyed here and in the hereafter, all alienation from Christ, all beclouding of his Name is no search after life, but after death. Seeking Christ for the sake of salvation is the beginning. But he who understands what salvation is, will for its sake cultivate the knowledge of God. Of a truth Christ is the surety that once the soul will be free from sin; the guarantee that no guilt of sin will any more distress us; the promise that once the body will be restored in glory; and no less the hope of a home in the Fathers' house of many mansions; of sacred joy in the realm of eternal light, and of endless 237

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