To be near unto God - pagina 375

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thus came about deliverance of the thus the names of these heroes are held in lasting honor. Not by our race as a whole, but by the people whose deliverance they have wrought. Meanwhile a third struggle had begun. Not against nature, and not against the lust of robbery and murder of a fellowman, but the conflict between the kingdoms of the world and the kingdom of heaven. The grace of God descending, the light of God inshining, in order to bring the children of men to the inheritance of the children of God. And face to face with this, the power of Satan, sin and world, to destroy the cause of God in the earth. And again there have been heroes, who, excelling others and themselves, have stood their ground where others fainted. Again the wall, which inexorabl}^ foiled the many, but over which enthusiastically they leaped. A Noah, an Abraham, an Isaiah, presently the martyrs and the Apostles, and after them a Luther and a Calvin. Again this same high inspiration. The wall at last thrown down. And their names held in grateful remembrance, not by a single people, and not by the whole race, but by the generation of all the children of God. At the center of this conthe supreme flict was the Lion from Judah's tribe Leader and Finisher of the faith, the Son of God and the Son of Man, the vanquisher of death in Here God in him, he his glorious resurrection. himself God, and therefore the wall of sin and death forever demolished b}' him, and the way opened to everlasting peace. Now consider our struggle. It is threefold. There is the struggle against the forces of nature leaped. people.

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