To be near unto God - pagina 147

in times past. From ancient writings we see people of tiie long ago live and move before us, and things of the past appear like things of the All sorts of cmrents and schools and present. tendencies of thought are ever abroad, one one /

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the other another. Unanimity there is none. Seeking God with all the heart is unknown. This shows that the preference for one method of seeking God bars the way to other equally efficasious methods of doing the same, and that God's children should freely employ all methods in order to be wholly free in their communion with the Eternal. God is not found by one power of soul in distinction from another, but by all the soul. God is not apprehended by human knowledge, or will, or play of imagination, but by the knowing, willing and thinking soul as a whole, in its inner unity and soundness. Ray by ray shines in, but all are caught in the focus of the soul-life in process of becoming aware of itself and of its environments, and the act of catching all these rays is called faith. Here, too, the diflSculty springs from the inward ruin occasioned by sin, which is still esteemed too lightly, because it is sought too exclusively within the scope of morals. The injury worked by sin is only fully known when its fatal effects are traced in religion.

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concerns our relation to God. For in connection with this everything centers in the first and great commandment: To love God with all the soul and with all the strength. This is possible. The soul was created and equipped for this. It can safely be said that when the soul operates normally it can not do otherwise than direct itself it

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