To be near unto God - pagina 517

communioii with that world is possible. When the Psalmist would praise God, he calls upon the There angels to praise and bless the Lord (Ps. 103) is an host of the Lord that encampeth round about them that fear God. Not only Satan, the head of .

but good angels, too, are in communication with our soul. And in moments of blessed elevation of spirit the soul has been confallen angels,

scious of the nearness of the good spirits of God, and it has seemed that they made us feel in a

more tender and more intimate way the nearness of our God. We undergo the same inworking for good or for evil from men. One evil-minded person in your environment can draw your soul away from God, estrange every utterance of life from God, and throw you back into your earthly, sinful shallow-

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the other hand, one devoted child of your midst can effect the exclusion of every unholy suggestion from conversation, the opening up of the soul, and the closer approach to God. Such is the case here. He who accustoms himself to enter into the life of the holy world of God's angels, and already here on earth admits ness.

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the company of the saints into the circle of the perceptions of his own soul will thereby not only banish evil, but will himself attain a holier mood, will feel himself supported in praise and prayer,

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less difficulty in raising hamhis earthly life to the nearness of his

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not created for solitariness. The deserted of all, you have to fight your fight alone, you feel that something un-

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moment when,

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