To be near unto God - pagina 469

Holy Father, prayed in his high-priestly prayer: (St. John 17 :2dh I in them and thou in me" Christ however, our mystical union with If character, and not shall maintain its true religious

this into sentimental Chnstolatry, as an end taken be never must Christ relation to can Christ is the Mediator, and there in itself. making our be no Mediator except for the sake of

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God

approach to

possible.

To be

near unto God,

oneself to be close by in sacred confidence to feel in nearness to God earth on here God to live to serve through faith, and once, after death, that is God eternally in the Fatherhouse above— everything the and remains the end and aim; and the MediatorScripture reveals to us regarding and can never this, in result must ship of Christ, Once Christ himself shall deliver rest in itself. the Father, that up the Kingdom to God, even He who stops short with all.

God may be

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in

desire than to be numspiritual progress arrests people, bered with God's

himself, or has in his

The

own

soul.

end at which we aim, may and can than to enjoy God forever, and to glorify his for no other purpose than to

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no further

ideal

less,

And just because this is the ideal end, all does not rehgion on earth is imperfect, which make us God, to nearer us bring here already to spend us induce and him, to dwell in nearness our talent in his service. all our strength and all emotion and in Piety that consists in soothing

name.

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inspiration.

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