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To be near unto God - pagina 543
people that is near unto God." It says in full: "He hath exalted the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him" (Psalm 148:14). The distinction that is here made is, that not only the individual soul may find itself in closer fellowsh ...
To be near unto God - pagina 545
which allows the supervision of the church to be general. And so there are many causes that co-operate, but among these the principal cause Life in the country itself, and the always is: consequent influence of nature, of the visible crea-moreGod whichsurrounds the countryman ...
To be near unto God - pagina 544
and andelasticity.ofThisisthe result of greater frictionmore intense competition.He whoinsuch cities still cherished the sacred traditions of the fathers, did so under protest. He had to suffer for it, and to struggle in behalf of it. ...
To be near unto God - pagina 546
without. In the city alone from within, while the voice makes itself loudly heard in all sorts of ways to hush the voice of the Lord, even in his starry heaven and in his thunder. They who are advanced in years, and whose life's task is done, not infrequently seek the country again tohuman ...
To be near unto God - pagina 547
Psalms is Job with his wondrous descriptions of the Behemoth, the horse and the pleiadea. It is all one mighty call in the greatness and beauty of nature to behold the glory of God.And whenwe cometo the preachagain the self-same call: 'Consider the lilies of the field, how th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 548
voices of nature. "In his temple," says the Psalmist, after having described the power of God in nature, "in his temple doth everj'one speak of his glory" (Psalm 29:9). And in the Hallelujah song of Psalm 147 it is said that Israel is highly exalted above primitive peoples, because the Lord hath ...
To be near unto God - pagina 549
a.Godwe createdafter our image, butafter theimage of God. And this you will not get from books, and not from travel, and not from acquaintance with men. For all this only confines you to the limit and to the measure of our small proportions, and is altoge ...
To be near unto God - pagina 550
100THOU TRIEST MINE HEART, THAT IS WITH THEE."ITManycauses can interrupt the secret walk with to the pious mind is, that God withdraws his face, in order, by the want of it, to make you thirst more strongly after it. The most common is, that earthly interests so engage ...
To be near unto God - pagina 551
to flee from God was stronger than to be near unto God. We perceive this change in our spiritual attitude clearly, at once and in the most painful way,and the inclinationwhenit was a sin that tempted us; a sin which, once committed, startled us, and for which we would give an ...
To be near unto God - pagina 554
it is good for you, unspeakably good, to be near again unto God. And what is the secret of this healing work of the soul? Is it not stated in Jeremiah's words: "Lord, thou knowest me, thou seest me, thou triest mine heart that it is with thee" (Jer. 12:3 Dutch version). That which makes the utter ...
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