To be near unto God - pagina 119

And when

the "Cultivate the the atmosphere except as God

eged to know

matter is pressed, and it is said, secret walk with God and drink in of the life above," no one responds, draws him. And if we are privilthis secret fellowship, it but shows

what excellent grace has been bestowed upon us. Let us therefore with St, Paul bow the knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, that this glorious privilege maj^ be not taken from us, but that from this secret walk abounding might may continuall}'

be granted to strengthen us in the

inner man. 23

"TO

WHOM

IS

THE ARM OF THE LORD

REVEALED?" No

thought

lifts

power of material

us more

interests

securely'' above the and above the tempta-

appetites than the confession, "God from which of itself the second flows, worships Him can not and must not in spirit and in truth. This excludes from God and from the worship of his name everything that is material, sensual or what is tion of the is a Spirit;" that he who do so except

to form. God is a Spirit. This liberat-es the soul from every chain that might bind or oppress it contrary to its nature; always on condition, of course, that God, who is Spirit, is worshipped in spirit and in truth with all the love of the heart. That God is Spirit brings all idolatry to naught, ail creature-worship, and dismisses every sensual horror which idolatry brought with it and which hastened the downfall of the nations of antiquity. Not to analyze the riches

bound

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