To be near unto God - pagina 286

wherever they may look, there will be nothing behind which to hide from the sight of the majesty of God. It then becomes the heat of a sun which does not cherish, but sears. The Scripture calls it hell, and so it is, but only by what God through his sacred presence makes it. If God could be done away, or if one could withdraw himself from the Eternal, or hide from before his Face, hell would be ended. But this is impossible. God's holy presence will not cease to deluge the lost,

and that

him, therefore,

is

eternal death.

It is well

who in this life has sought God in Christ. After death

with the

knowledge of this knowledge will be for him the drinking in of Divine sympathy. But w^oe to him who shall only learn to know God in the judgment. For him this knowledge will be nothing but horror. 53

"DYING HE WORSHIPPED." In connection with the knowledge of what lies beyond the grave the moment of dying is deeply

The way in which we see others die, and in which we die ourselves, contributes to our knowledge of God. In this hour many things that stood between God and the soul fall away. We then stand on the threshold of the unseen life, and the words of the Psalmist: "Our feet stand significant.

within thy gates, O Jerusalem," are applicable to the entering in through the gates of the new Jerusalem. Let us take dying in this connection in its real Dying is an act. In our natural true sense. 282

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