To be near unto God - pagina 42

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seeing and observing, a part of our knowledge is in our own power. But the part of higher and nobler knowledge God alone can

impart.

As we apply this to ourselves we see at once that this Divinely-imparted knowledge comes by no means exclusively through the conscience. Upon a far broader scale some of it comes from the Divine counsel, and some from the relation which he establishes between himself and us. We are born of our parents and we find many things in ourselves that remind us of them. But the formation of our person, disposition, temper and leading inclination are his work. When we discover in ourselves a thirst after higher knowledge, and a susceptibility to nobler ends, the impulse bom from this is a work of the Holy Ghost in the soul. The results of the knowledge which we have thus acquired are not obtained by observation, but by virtue of the higher impulse which he quickens and maintains in us. Circumstances play a part in this. We may have a friend whose nobleness of character be-

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comes an inspiration. may go through certain experiences, and meet cultivated and interesting people who stimulate us to court higher lines of thought. may have Important duties laid upon us, high responsibilities, or bitter griefs, which advance us to more than ordinary heights. And again, it is God alone who disposes all these things in our behalf. But

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above everything else we can feel the beginnings of a strong drawing of God in our hearts when he leaves us no rest and weans us from earthly vanities, and mystically inspires us with a sense of necessity which compels us to take 34

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