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To be near unto God - pagina 10
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 ...
To be near unto God - pagina 11
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 ...
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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 ...
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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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the common necessities of life are more The large part which easily procured than here. money plays in life is too generally ignored. Aside from wealth and love of simplicity., life unfolds differently when there is a free hand financially than when hard work for sheer sustenance of self and fami ...
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HE WILL REGARD PRAYER. Does the Lord regard prayer onlyafter long delay? Is He not omnipresent? Is not the whispered prayer known to Him before there is yet a word in the tongue? Can the All-Knowing One first stand apart, indifferently as it were, and only gradually perceive that we pray, ...
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