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To be near unto God - pagina 451
Thus humanity is divided. There is the unregenerated world, with which the separation continues, and which has no more temple on Zion. And there are the people of the Lord, who are no longer carnal, but live their hves in the spirit. Among this people, in this Church of the Lord, all separation h ...
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him, are derived from the Holy Ghost,is absurd. general has ever excelled, no poet has ever sung, no scholar has ever reaped the admiration of the world, no artist has ever enriched life with his creations, but it was the Holy Spirit, who caused the spark of genius to glow in him. Such and ...
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to obtain perregenerating us he has enabled us he did not wait sonal fellowship with him, that him, but that ^e made the till we had found from withapproach to us and touched us not the deepest that out but from within, and he estabhshed the secrecy of the life of the soul the taste his presence ...
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To be near unto God - pagina 455
-With God, of course, itdoeswithus,thisdoes not mean, whatwhen we speakaccustomed to one.ofbecomingWespeak of it most frecome in touch with somequently when we first one who acts strangely, aman of strong p ...
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that while on one side he still sinks away in misery, yet under it all and with it all he remains conscious of the blessed presence of the Holy Ghost. That the Holy Spirit does not go away, that he does not allow himself to be sent away, that he does not give us up, but continues to dwell with us ...
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To be near unto God - pagina 457
the Bible interpretation of life was counted valid in science, in public opinion, and therefore in education, and in the better forms of social intercourse. He who in those better days believed, was carried by the general tenor of life, and therewas no occasion for offense, But all the you ...
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in our sensations and feelings, and that we are astray in the deliberations of our hearts. If we were what we ought to be, there would be no estrangement from God, and no need of the exhortation to accustom ourselves again to God. Hence the saying: "Accustom now thyself to him," is a judgment tha ...
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gage yourself from thewisdomtiethat bindsyouto theyour mind and heart enter again into the plan and most holy thoughts of God. of the world,and withallDo not take this in a philosophical sense. Interpret it practically in behalf of li ...
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God who allows it; but we can submit to this. But that God himself inflicts this in sickness, and by means of cruel death, is and remains at this viewpoint a stumbling block which one can not get over, and which has killed much rootless faith. What accounts for this, save that God's thoughts are ...
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To be near unto God - pagina 460
If he elected godless peoonly for this purpose, they would harden themselves against suffering, and the godly would pride themselves on being spared. The medicine would do no good. It would bring spiritual petrifaction. It would bring loss for gain.suffering to the world.pleN ...