To be near unto God - pagina 51

Lord, hear me," and obtained the coveted me, answer, and "the fire of the Lord consumed the sacrifice." But the saints of God in the earth have not always been similarly favored. Read the com"0, God, keep plaint of Asaph in Psalm 83: not thou silence; hold not thy peace as one deaf and be not still, God." Or consider David's distress which he voices in Psalm 28: "Unto thee will I cry, O Lord my rock; be not silent or as one deaf to me; lest if thou make as though thou hearest not, I become like them that go down into the pit.'* And what is stronger still, call to mind the Lama Sabachtani of Golgotha, echo of the prophetic complaint of Psalm 22: "0 my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season also I take no rest."

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And this is the difference between the religious man of the world and the devout believer on God. have nothing to say of the man of the world pure and simple. He does not pray at all. He never cries to God, and never expects an answer. But the people of

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the world are not all like this. Many are not wholly irreligious. They still observe religious forms. They have not wholly abandoned prayer. It is mostly, it is true, a mere matter of habit. To say grace at the table before one eats, a so-called "blessing," which consists mainly of a "whisper" and upon retiring at night a short prayer of thanksgiving and supplication. This kind of prayer is revived in days of trouble, and in moments of anxiety, when a loved one at home is sick unto death,

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