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To be near unto God - pagina 31
invented, communications were carried by letters. All this, however, is changed. By this time it is understood that the throat has no sound of its own, but merely enables us to occasion vibrations And that these vibrations find an in the air. artistic instrument in the listening ear to receive T\ ...
To be near unto God - pagina 23
mThis means worship withoutward forms, directly spiritually, from heart to heart. If then we are in sympathy with David's ardent longing to dwell in the house of the Lord, we must no longer apply For this to an earthly house or visible church. this only brings us back to the dispensation o ...
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unto him. But in that case, satisfaction with half measures must not be tolerated. If we do, vague love for a far-away God will riiore than ever failThe free and untrammeled life, that joj'fully proclaims: I love the Lord, alone can save. For it does not remain standing afar off, but seeks ...
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undervalue better works from other hands. This evident in mother-joy, which revels in play with its own child, such as is impossible in play with Self-delusion and selfishness a neighbor's child. may at times be too evident in this joy of the mother heart, but history and folklore in all lands an ...
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who stand before the Lord. God's house will afford the opportunity for fellowship with him, but in it we will look for God himself. One must live with a person in his house in order to enjoy his company to the full. But the house without him is nothing. He himself angels and the saints,the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 12
can allow her just anger with the child of her to work itself out to the end, just so little can God's wrath with a soul fully exhaust itself, because He has made it. As a Father pitiethown bosomhis children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear (Ps. 103). "Though a mother may forget ...
To be near unto God - pagina 33
one and the same time among and with all the redeemed of the Lord. But even then it will all be the expression and the working out of the fact of our- creation after the Divine image. It will not be just in the sameway in which God communes with us, but be communion in a similar way. That ...
To be near unto God - pagina 13
soul that has gone astray, because He has made it. The beautiful parables of the lost penny, the lost sheep and the lost son sprang in the mind of Christ from the thought that God can not let go the works of his hands. Therefore He does not leave the souls of sinners indifferently as prey to corr ...
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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 spareit, and shield it from corr ...
To be near unto God - pagina 34
must entreat the Lord tolisten again to the voiceof our supplications. "Give heed, to me,whofeels thatGodO Lord," is the cry of him has paid no attention to hisprayer. In the same way when by Isaiah God ''Hearken unto me, my people," it implies say ...
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