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To be near unto God - pagina 357
administered, where there is no church of Christ, or small, and where there are not some deeply spiritual souls that live very "near unto God." This makes no secret of the fact however that in thickly-populated centers and even in larger villages the great majority of people are either dead to th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 358
be for this faithful Father, who is not moved to ask in despair, whether constant, inward, tender, ever-in-grace increasing piety has not become impossible for us? This question can only in part be answered in the affirmative. Sin works effects which enervate and weaken, so that even in the most ...
To be near unto God - pagina 360
drawn themselves to cell or hermitage. But though they could banish the world from the cloister, they took their hearts with them, and it was the heart itself that obstructed the way to closer fellowship with God. This was possible in Paradise, and has become such again in the congregation of the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 362
some one consults his father about a business scheme with some man, the father's question in reply: ''Do you know him," will mean: Are you sure that he is honorable, reliable and trustworthy as to his business ability? This two-fold significance of knowing anyone personally must be reckoned with ...
To be near unto God - pagina 359
right to assert that religion consists of confession. It posits the claim of an holy life, and of abounding in good works, but deprives us of the illusion that true piety can ever be satisfied with this. It certainly demands high esteem for outward forms of Divine service, but resists the error w ...
To be near unto God - pagina 361
spent with God increase, and the moments of separation from God decrease. To cleave unto the Lord with all the heart and soul and consciousness is then at first a heavenly joy which ma}^ be tasted only once in Gradually it becomes a coma whole month. lifemunionofsoulwi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 363
knowthe Lord (I Sam. 3:7),itmeansexclusivelyoutward knowledge; and not the deeper knowledge of the Divine Being, which only springs from secret communion. By night Samuel heard himself called by name. He heard it as clearly and plainly as though Eli had called h ...
To be near unto God - pagina 364
their hearts or by external address to their ears. Of course this might have been continued, so that we, everyone personally for himself, might have heard the voice of God. But it has not pleased God so to do. It has seemed good to him first to give his revelation personally to prophets and apost ...
To be near unto God - pagina 365
and day by day are subject of the blessed, mystical operation of the same, and thereby have come to fixed, unshakable faith, you are amazed that in many families the Bible has been laid aside; that he whostillreadsand that you arefinds nothing special in it; bitterly r ...
To be near unto God - pagina 366
Grod; but they are not able to impart their faith to others, and to open the inner ear of their fellowmen to the holy mysticism of our God. There is a difference here. Among those who do not know the Lord, there are enemies of God who have stopped their ears to ever}^ voice of God; but there are ...
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