To be near unto God - pagina 319

into every interest of life, so we should allow the thought of God, the lifting up of the soul to God, the faith on, and the love for, God unceasingly to operate in and with everything. This prevents estrangement, and stra3dng away, and accustoms the soul to be continually "near unto God." This is shown most forcibly by the fact that he who so lives is at once aware of an aching void within, the moment he wanders away from God, which allows him no rest till fellowship with God is restored. it

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The hen

allows her chickens to run about freely within her sight until danger threatens, and then at once with raised wings, she clucks her brood towards herself, and does not rest until the last little one has crowded itself beneath her wings, and animai-mother faithfulness covers all the young innocents. But then the chickens do not hide themselves yet with the mother hen. They only do this when, seeing the approach of danger, of themselves, and of their o\vn initiative, they flee to the mother hen in order to seek protection beneath her wings. The "Jerusalem, Jerusalem," which Jesus declaimed against Zion was doubl}' upbraiding in its touching pathos, because it reproached Israel either for not surmising danger, or in case it did. for seeking defense and cover with men and not with God. In time of danger the people should

have called upon God, and should have poured cut their supplication for help and deliverance unto the God of their fathers, and as soon as 311

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