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To be near unto God - pagina 353
tendency of the heart, not to seek, but to be delivered from, God, the favor of God to usward turns into holy antipathy. Thus the pathway of life is walked with God in enmity and in bitterness, and the Holy Spirit is grieved. This does not happen with a child of the world. He does not walk with G ...
To be near unto God - pagina 354
undous, and we hold ourselves fast bj^ God for protection against evil. And we may stumble, but even in the act of it, refuge will be taken with the unseen Companion who walks at our side. He will be invoked for forgiveness and help. And he who knoweth whereof we are made, will show mercy ...
To be near unto God - pagina 355
been upborne by the example, sympathy and fellowship of what is called the people of God. This is a sacred appellation, which no single group may arbitrarily appropriate to itself, and which is only real where God himself walks in the midst of those who share his favor. We are at once aware in fa ...
To be near unto God - pagina 356
in the midst of us, because he is the source of our light, of our strength and of the inspiration of our hfe."THAT THOU MAYEST CLEAVE UNTO HIM." Sin nowhere makes more rapid advances than in religion. Religion is the service of the Triune God. It is the highest and best that enriches the h ...
To be near unto God - pagina 357
administered, where there is no church of Christ, or small, and where there are not some deeply spiritual souls that live very "near unto God." This makes no secret of the fact however that in thickly-populated centers and even in larger villages the great majority of people are either dead to th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 358
be for this faithful Father, who is not moved to ask in despair, whether constant, inward, tender, ever-in-grace increasing piety has not become impossible for us? This question can only in part be answered in the affirmative. Sin works effects which enervate and weaken, so that even in the most ...
To be near unto God - pagina 360
drawn themselves to cell or hermitage. But though they could banish the world from the cloister, they took their hearts with them, and it was the heart itself that obstructed the way to closer fellowship with God. This was possible in Paradise, and has become such again in the congregation of the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 362
some one consults his father about a business scheme with some man, the father's question in reply: ''Do you know him," will mean: Are you sure that he is honorable, reliable and trustworthy as to his business ability? This two-fold significance of knowing anyone personally must be reckoned with ...
To be near unto God - pagina 359
right to assert that religion consists of confession. It posits the claim of an holy life, and of abounding in good works, but deprives us of the illusion that true piety can ever be satisfied with this. It certainly demands high esteem for outward forms of Divine service, but resists the error w ...
To be near unto God - pagina 361
spent with God increase, and the moments of separation from God decrease. To cleave unto the Lord with all the heart and soul and consciousness is then at first a heavenly joy which ma}^ be tasted only once in Gradually it becomes a coma whole month. lifemunionofsoulwi ...
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