To be near unto God - pagina 410

that first period of grace. There is considerable increase in knowledge, as well as in spiritual experience and in spiritual wisdom, but there is no acquisition of higher strength. Sometimes even there is a relapse, which is not survived except with much difficulty. And so there is considerable satisfaction. There is no striving after higher things. And one remains what he came to be until death. do not say that this is the case with all. There are those, thank God, who bum as sliining lights in the congregation, and who do not cease all the days of their lives to drink deeply from the cup of grace. But yet how different would the revelation of the kingdom of heaven be among the people, if all they who believe, who know themselves to be children of God, from the hour of conversion until the day of death, would cause the call of progress to be sounded in the soul. Who can say what it would be in the heart, in the home, in the church of God with every one of us if it were and ever continued to be, an uninterrupted going forward from strength to strength

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''BLESSED

ARE THE PURE IN HEART."

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truly sinless, pure heart is the precious possession in the eyes of a child of God which he

always prays for, but which here on earth he never obtains. They who stand outside of the We fully grant faith are not considered here. that they value purity of heart. We do not deny But what they mean that they strive after it. by it is something else. For the child of God 406

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