To be near unto God - pagina 424

that wonderfully assimilating power again which itself so gloriously in every reveille. Of course, this Body is not identical with the visible church. But the visible church also is not alive save by the Holy Ghost, who, flowing out from the Head of the invisible Body of the Lord, keeps the church alive so long as she does not cut the vital connection with the invisible Body. And this is the effect of this indwelling of the Holy Ghost in the church that he who is connected with this church in an organic, spiritual way, knows and tastes a fellowship with the Triune Being, such as is not possible outside of it. There is, indeed, a certain sense of the existence of God among the unconverted. Also a certain feeling of dependence upon a higher Power. The voice of conscience is also heard in their hearts. When advanced in years, they frequently think of what But not with all. Far is to come after death. from it. It can not be denied that the number of those who have no more concern about God than about their sin and about their future after death is steadily on the increase. But this does not deny that in Christian as well as in heathen lands there are always many people who still hold a certain general religiousness in honor. But what these people altogether miss is not the working of the conscience, but And fellowfellowship with the Holy Ghost. ship with the Holy Ghost is, of course, nothing Not the else than fellowship with God himself. fellowship of the flock with the Shepherd, not outward submission to the appointments of God

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