To be near unto God - pagina 29

prophetic insight he anticipates the day when the Lord will hear the prayer of his people, and inspired by this thought he exclaims: "When the Lord will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer, then shall all the kings of the earth fear him." Thus the Psalmist was still in that period in which the Lord held himself deaf to his people, and in which the moment tarried when he would regard their prayer. And do you think that the Psalmist did not feel and know the objections that are suggested by the nature of the Divine Being against this human representation ? And are we so far his superior that the thoughts which arise in us were foreign to him ? Who has ever outlined God's omnipresence and omniscience in terms of finer poetic imagery than he ? Are not the expressions in which we clothe our prayers for the most part borrowed from his writing? Did not he propound the question: "Shall he who planted the ear, not hear?" And did not he confess in Ps. 139: "There is not a word in my tongue, but, lo, Lord, Thou knowest it altogether. Thou hast beset me behind and before. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high, I can not attain unto it."

The Psalmist has described the Divine virtues saints of all ages, and the mysteries of the Divine Being are nowhere more clearly set forth than in the language of in behalf of the

songs. And when this eminently-saintly frequently speaks of God also with reference to this matter of prayer in this simple, human way, what can it mean, save that the confidential terms of intimate human fellowship have the same significance in the secret his

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