To be near unto God - pagina 49

At

we

night, on our beds,

when we cannot sleep, Much more so, in-

feel our helplessness.

deed, than when by day garments adorn our person, when our word makes our Influence a power and when we labor to make or maintain our position in life. We lie prostrate on our bed and stand no longer upright. We are well nigh motionless. And this very insignificance of our appearance there renders us but the more fit to meet our Lord.

And

then God becomes great to us.

We

Our Maker.

His

realize his saying that he

is

faithfulnesses present themselves to us. The arms of everlasting compassion support and encircle us. Sadness of heart gives place to

Anxious thoughts become calm and glad. soul becomes attuned to the worship of the eternal love of God. And when his Holy Spirit thus ministers to our spiritual needs and imparts his quickening touch, the hymn of praise

joy.

The

rises from the heart and with us it is literal fact that God, our Maker, giveth us songs in the night. 9

"I

CRY,

BUT THOU HEAREST NOT."

To get no hearing, as one stands at the closed and it is not opened, makes one anxious. He then knocks harder, and when this brings no reply, he calls, and calls louder and louder. And when still no sound is heard, and there comes no answering voice, fear strikes the heart lest some accident has befallen child or brother whom he knows is near. To get no hearing, when in distress one has called for help, and has waited and waited for door,

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