To be near unto God - pagina 66

munion goes forth from Nature to God. There is power in it everywhere, but there is no fellowship of love in

it.

this is the Divine desire. God must needs address his creation and obtain a response from it in return. He must needs establish close, personal fellowship and mutual communion with his creation. The eternal, knowing, loving, seeking Father desires to be known, to be loved and to be sought. The flame of religion must inwardly gleam through the works of creation, even as in

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the outward sphere the sun gleams throughout the But this is impossible and can not be earth. thinkable, except as God creates a being after His own image and likeness a being of his own generation, and who therefore is a child, who will cleave to him as Father; a being whose distance

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and distinction from his infinite majesty will be unfathomably deep, but who, nevertheless, feeling and knowing the Divine life in his own life, will associate with God as brother with brother, and who will thus be brought into secret and sacred

communion with him. Religion, therefore, is not founded upon our creation after the Divine Image for our sake, but Only our earnest endeavor for the sake of God. to cultivate this hidden communion with God will fulfill the purpose for which he created us after For though it is true that this his likeness. glorious distinction of our creation in the likeness of God renders us unspeakably rich and happy, that it baptizes us into the Divine family, so that we are children of the Most Highest, and are thereby elevated to princely holdings in the heavenly sanctuary, he who counts this the all

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