To be near unto God - pagina 152

This forming of images has at last been per"human nature" of Christ. After he had entered into glory, Christ appeared to St. John on Patmos in his human nature and the manner of this appearance has been committed This is the only appearance to writing for us. of Christ, given to the church, that may and should govern our imaginative life. To this we add that in a child of God even The here something of his Father is manifest. nobler the Christian life, the more this is visible. The weaker the Christian life, the less apparent But when a Christian life is deeply spiritual, it is. they who are equally devout, see through it, as Image of the Eternal it. were, something of the God. From this it follows that if we are God's children it is our high calling, not by our imagination, but by the image-forming manifestation of our entire personality to cause something of the Father to be seen by those who are of the household of faith. fected in the

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HIS WILL."

In behalf of the knowledge of God there is power in conformity to his will. God

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becomes known to us by studious thought, by play of the imagination, by inner experience and But it can not be denied that he in other ways. Within also becomes known to us by the will. the last fifty years the will has been put in the foreground, by which to interpret many things which no one associated with it before. An important school of philosophy has emphasized the will 148

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