To be near unto God - pagina 62

of the soul is God by his alone can fully break this soliHe alone can comfort him tariness of the soul. who is caught in the snares of death. He alone can save the soul of him who has long sought diversion in the vain pleasures of the world.

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IMAGE." All true religion and godliness springs from the fact that we have been created after the Image of God. Some of us have passed from the period in the Christian life of "milk for babes" to that of ''strong meat for adults." understand therefore that calling upon God and walking in the ways of his laws do not by themselves constitute true religion and godliness, and that the secret of salvation is unveiled in all its fullness only when

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we have fellowship with the Eternal and abide under the shadow of the Almighty. Outward forms of worship are not without value. Provisionally they are the only thinkable ones. Although they do not make sure of heaven, they exert binding influences upon many thousands of people which prevent the dissolution of society. But the plant of spirituality outgrows at length the outward form and goes on, in the words of the Apostle, unto perfection. It comes to blossom in the very gleam of God's majesty. It is fostered by the outshining of his glory and watered by the dews from above. Thus it comes to a personal knowledge of the Lord, as a man knoweth his brother; to a dwelling of the soul in 58

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