To be near unto God - pagina 14

thought that, if we believe, God's anger with the ~ soul which He has made will not continue to the end. And, on the other hand, it implies the help' ful warning that we should not poison the soul bycontinuance in sin, but that we should favor it,

and spare

it, and shield it from corrupting influences, because it belongs to God on the ground that He has made it. The confession that God created man after his own image does not exhaust the fulness of the thought in hand. The plummet goes far deeper. The saving and uplifting power of this confession is only felt when each morning is begun anew with the vivid realization of the inspiring thought that the soul in us is a work of art, made by the High and Holy One, on which his Honor hangs, over which therefore He watches

with holy jealousy; and that we can not ruin it by sm except as we commit crime against that, to which God sustains the peculiar relation of being

Author and Maker. Thus "The souls which

its

I have made" does not say anything more, save that we should realize that we are the children of God but it states it in a more gripping way. It declares that he who by sin denies his heavenly Father, violates God's ;

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honor and grieves the Fatherheart.

"RICH IN GOD." Jesus has appreciated the grave character of the struggle in Jife between God and money. It may be said that this struggle is even more violent in Western lands than in the East, where he

preached and went about doing good, because 10

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