To be near unto God - pagina 343

God shows this ever more clearl}' in the soul. favor in the personal life. Increasing brightness Less night and more day in our personal skies. in which ever more and ever clearer light is sown on our pathway. As an effect of this inner growth, there is greater exhibition of power. He who must travel in the earh' dawn makes little headway, but when clearer daylight illumines the Hence the exhortawa}^ he quickens his pace. tion of the apostle "Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the whole armor of light. Let us walk honestly, as in the For as long as light and darkness strive day." for mastery in the soul, there is continual hesitancy and slipping of the foot. But with more light there comes more moral courage. We become more animated, we become more bold in holy undertakings, and more light shines out from us upon others. Instead of tottering, the step becomes firm; instead of work half-done, labors :

and made perfect. Nor is this all. For however far we may be developed along moral lines, development in piety is more significant, and the rich gain which the clearer inshining of heavenl}^ light brings, is the growing tenderness of our fellowship with God. are finished

Dark

night prevails in the

human

heart at large

through the oppression of error and sin. God truly is, and he truly is close by, but though mankind maj' feel its waj^ if haply it may find him, it is not aware of him, it does not see him, and discovers nothing of his holy presence. Thick darkness compasses it about and makes it feel oppressed, and the sense of uncertainty, and of anxiet}', as a serpent of suspicion, creeps into the

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