To be near unto God - pagina 578

majestic doings of God. Thus your own insigis readily transferred to the Eternal. But when you feel that you are a living member of the whole living body of Christ, that you are one of the multitude that can not be numbered, that you are related to all the saints above, to all God's saints in the whole earth, and to all the saints among the children, and among your children's children, then the pinnings of the sacred tent are put out widely, your outlook is enlarged, your love is extended to thousands upon thousands, your faith is deepened and your hope begins to glisten with all the radiancy of glorious nificance

victory.

heart of our God is so wide of conception, nothing estranges you farther from this Fatherheart than your own narrow-heartedness. In the Te Deum it is sung:

The

that

''The glorious thee,

company

The noble army

of the apostles praise

of martyrs praise thee."

Sometimes the desire comes upon one that he might have lived in the days of Isaiah, and that he migtt have companied with St. John, and might have witnessed the heroism of martyrs in

And then one thinks that all an unapproachable past. Then, live

the face of death. this is lost in

communion ''with all saints," and come nearer to you. They all are your brothers, with whom you are included in the one body of Christ. And the nearer you come to this company of God's saints above, the nearer in the sense of

they

all

will

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