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To be near unto God - pagina 328
and presentlyin the future, whereby our short appears to be almost endlessly long and great. Even the single year that is past seemed so long, that only a few of its significant days are clearly remembered, and the new j^ear just begun makes an impression as though it could never end. Our ...
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and appointment always accompanies us. not what would smile on us this year, but what 77iust happen with us, for the accomplishment of his plan regarding us, determines what the 3'ear will bring. And why it must be so and not otherwise we can not understand now, but we will in the hereafter. He w ...
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never befrom sight. It is so wide that possibly explain the connection be-lostwe can nottween our time and God's eternity, though we know that there must be such a relation, andWhenwe die in Christ we there is. shall enter upon an eternity of everlasting ...
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and destiny be understood.Whatever the year never understood from itself. Before God, all of human life, with all its years, forms one plan, one end, one whole. This plan, of our life did not begin at birth but traces its lines back to the life of parents and grandparents. In the forward d ...
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Godputshiminto the smelting-furnace, or adds diamond of the soul, thoughfiner cuttings to the his eyes ghstenmaywith tears, he will nobly bear for he knows it is it can not be otherwise; and that if it were otherwise, his life would forever be a failure. ...
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by large charities. But nothing of all this can compare with the unsparing compulsion with which the H0I3' Ghost in God's word relentlessly drives us to worship, to seek Divine fellowship, to have the soul appear before God. The Scripture places itself at a standpoint that is even more exalted th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 334
sound fromflute or trumpet, it is always an impulse in the soul which interprets itself in a vocal utterance of the world of sound, which in all spheres surrounds us. Neither singer nor harpist creates the world of music. God created it. It was there before the first man heard the first jo ...
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returns an echo to our song of praise that resounds among the spheres. It is no dead, silent creation, stricken with dumbness, but a living creation, that utters speech. And he whose ear is attuned to understand this language of nature, hears the harmonious flow of praise and adoration, which it ...
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eliminated fromtheservicesofthesanctuary.Far better offset abuse by the sanctified use of voice and stringed instrument. The revival of sacred music is always a sign of a higher activity of life. Christian people who do not sing and play for the glory of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 339
the Spirit descending into our hearts, and as well in Christ as in the Holy Ghost God Himself isworshipped by us. This is the mystery. The son of man, who is one of us, who is our brother, who is closely related to us, and who in our nature has gone into heaven, does not stand by the side ...
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