To be near unto God - pagina 485

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"A

SOUND OF GENTLE STILLNESS."

"To be near unto God"

is not alike in every as with everything else that touches life intimately, it is with *'one after They this manner, and with another after that." who have drifted away in the stream of methodism, have not realized this, at least they have not acknowledged it, and hence the danger in methodism of barrenness in spiritual things. Always doing outside things, always zealous labor and toil for Jesus, but so little sound of gentle stillness, in which the secret walk is enjoyed.

case,

but,

even

Because of our sin there is always danger of fatal onesidedness, even in holiest things. There is sickly mysticism, which sits down by itself

and accomplishes nothing. And by the side of methodism, which is never at rest, and which

it

in

being over-busy at length has neither ear nor eye for the inwardness of the holy walk of a saved soul with God. And therefore, the mystic has something to learn from the methodist, and the methodist from the mystic. Only from the impulse of both does blessed harmony arise.

By is

itself

a

mystical search after the Divine

by no means yet

'

Christian.

The heathen

in

Asia practice it, even on a large scale, and though it has mostly disappeared from Islam, it has been practiced there, and it is still known among the Sufi in Persia and by the Dervishes in Asia Minor. But to bear the Christian stamp nearness to God must be through the atonement and relation with the mediator. "The Father and I 481

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