To be near unto God - pagina 367

are inclined to accept the sacred mysteries, provided they but discover that sacred power goes out from you. When thej- see no such power; and perceive that fruit remains wanting; that there is no higher seriousness of life; when they hear on the contrary, of hypocrites who behind fair exteriors prove themselves inferior in character to unbelievers, they are offended, and this keeps them back from Christ. Such was the case in the days of Samuel, when Hophni and Phineas transgressed in holy things, and Eli lacked moral courage to make seriou? protest. Such is the case now when he who calk himself a believer appears to be at heart a child Then the struggle becomes very of the world. fierce. O, that the children of God might understand their sacred calling, to confess their faith heroically, but above all else, by means of their

family

life,

of their social activities,

and

of their

seriousness of purpose; in brief, in all of be preachers of Jesus Christ.

life,

to

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"THEY MAKE HIM A WELL." In countries is

difficult

to

Hence words

where water abounds, it form an adequate idea of thirst. like ours,

of Scripture like "thirsting after righteousness," or "thirsting after the living God," are ordinarily taken in far too weak a sense. On a hot day, after a long walk, or in times of feverish emotion, we may reach out eagerly after a cup of cold water, but this is by no means yet the thirst tliat overtakes people in mountainous districts, when not metaphorically, but actually, the tongue cleaves to the roof of the mouth, the

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