To be near unto God - pagina 524

holiness of God. In order to come nearer unto God, the child of God must take service under Christ in the warfare which God himself wages against Satan and his works, and thus obtain a twofold result: that whereas hitherto he suffered defeat, now he conquers, and that whereas he thus far

wandered away from God, now he knows himbe near unto God.

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"LIVE IN PEACE."

When Asaph wrote: "But it is good for me to be near unto God," and thereby expressed in words a deep utterance of soul, which age upon age has found an echo in thousands of hearts, life had many more advantages for those who sought the Lord than it has for us now. In the East, where Asaph lived, it is still the custom that every event in life is put into relation with God; that in everything God is remembered, and the name of God is named. There is so much that draws us away from God, and therefore, pious usage prescribed, that from early infancy the child should be trained to remember God in every event of life. This is still the custom under Islam, where it is overdone, even to the extent that it must give rise to abuse. But there is something attractive in the habit. The call to prayer from the pinnacle of the Where there minarets has the same tendency. is so much that draws us away from God and keeps us far removed, a counterpoise was sought The in life by which to bind the soul to God. Christian church did the same in the middle 520

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