To be near unto God - pagina 199

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the love, then was the degree of tenderness conand how long did this exaltation of soul us become tinue? More yet, how often did it And suppose we have a thirsting after God? days come thus far, not every day, but most Uod how far distant are we even then from loymg our and all with all the heart, and all the soul,

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consciousness? For this all must also never escapes the day, so that our love for God us,

even in

sleep.

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must here be made. up m the heart, can Love for God sm and seltscintillate in the word, can restram and heroic ishness, and inspire deeds of devotion But the inspiration of this love can courage. Naturally, a

distinction can spring

ver\^ well operate in us, while

we may not be con-

the reciprocal scious of our love for God, nor of J^rom working of God's love for us in our heart. and love for God a martyr can go into death, by deadly the moment of dying be so abstracted executioners, that pain, or by the taunts of his of love with for the moment tender communion impossible. It is equally true that busi-

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with peoness or professional duties, intercourse so engage ple and the cares of daily life may thought our minds that with perchance a passing our mind of God, we are utterly unable to center

But though we keep all this out of the great commandment, to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, and

on God. count,

it is still

sucwith all the mind. And who of us has ever part ceeded in doing more of this than a small of the

whole?

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