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To be near unto God - pagina 50
man can understand our telegraphic communication, so little can the man of the world imderstand the mystical fellowship of the earnest believer on God with the Heavenly Father, who is both far off and close by. And the believer on God understands how this fellowship can be interrupted, and even e ...
To be near unto God - pagina 53
God includes a spiritual reality which far exceeds mere intellectual acumen, and which merely employs the abstractions of dogma and doctrine as means by which to clarify impressions that are received and to explain sensations of soul and inner experiences. And this has gradually been forgotten. K ...
To be near unto God - pagina 54
Thereis language in nature and in the animal But human language is altogether different and far richer, even though no word is spoken.world.The countenance facial expression,speaks; it speaks through the but particularly through and byThrough the eye, as a windo ...
To be near unto God - pagina 52
cametoknowand there;"nwself,"or, ''Iwas converted then"Then andthere I gave myself to Christ;" "In this wa}' or in that I found my Savior." And in whatever way it was expressed, it always meant the narrative of personal religious experience. ...
To be near unto God - pagina 55
This can not be taken in a material sense. Temptation leads to this and the Divine Father has been pictured in the form of an old man. Even Moses went astray in this direction when he prayed for a sight of God's face. It was a bold prayer. It brought this answer: "Thou canst not see my face, for ...
To be near unto God - pagina 56
;established between the Living God and our soul. Scripture expresses this mystical knowledge of God in various ways. It speaks of the ''secret walk with God," of ''dwelling in the House of the Lord," of "walking with God." And the Gospel develops this into the rich and glorious thought th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 58
Solitude, moreover, It lures therun-downisloved bymenof study.aged more than people of midlife.Inweakened nerves, people shrink from excitement. But this springs from accidental causes and is no index of charastate of health, with ...
To be near unto God - pagina 57
the case of the httle child, who, on being left alone, first becomes frightened and then begins to cry. If less striking, with adults as a rule, courting solitude or shunning it is marked with sufficient clearness to suggest something of their character. Some embrace every opportunity to escape f ...
To be near unto God - pagina 59
away with disease. But there is something more in you, something that is hidden in your inner being; and that hidden something For in death is your soul, which you must love. you must return it in all honor and holiness to God who gave it. From this the sense is developed that the soul There is m ...
To be near unto God - pagina 61
resort tion.isendless rounds of diversion and recrea-But never a turninginupononeself.Nevera collecting of the soul together for the sake of quiet thought. Never a search after the soul for On the contrary the soul is kept its own sake. in a ...
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