To be near unto God - pagina 521

communion with that world is possible. When the Psalmist would praise God, he calls upon the angels to praise and bless the Lord (Ps. 103) There is an host of the Lord that encampeth round about them that fear God. Not only Satan, the head of .

but good angels, too, are in communication with our soul. And in moments of blessed elevation of spirit the soul has been conscious of the nearness of the good spirits of God, and it has seemed that they made us feel in a fallen angels,

more tender and more intimate way the nearness God. undergo the same inworking for good or for evil from men. One evil-minded person in your environment can draw your soul away from God, estrange everj^ utterance of life from God, and throw you back into your earthly, sinful shallowness. On the other hand, one devoted child of God in your midst can effect the exclusion of every urdioly suggestion from conversation, the opening up of the soul, and the closer approach to God. Such is the case here. He who accustoms himself to enter into the life of the holy world of God's angels, and already here on earth admits of our

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the company of the saints into the circle of the perceptions of his own soul will thereby not only banish evil, but will himself attain a holier mood, will feel himself supported in praise and prayer,

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not created for solitariness. The deserted of all, you have to fight alone, you feel that something un-

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