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To be near unto God - pagina 373
All Paradise was with them. It was altogether pleasure without burden. At one point only they were in danger. That was their spiritual estate. In this they were vulnerable. If the soul fell down they were gone unless God saved them, risks.;they were gone forever. The curse, which ca ...
To be near unto God - pagina 374
of heroes who knew how to restrain the monster of destruction. Most people hve upon their common strength. WeakHngs hve beneath themselves. But there have always been a few, who have excelled themselves. And later generations have honored these heroes as men, who have achievedthe superhuma ...
To be near unto God - pagina 376
in sickness and in threatening destruction; the struggle for existence and a living. The struggle against our fellowmen, when they do us wrong, slander us and threaten our rights and liberties. And thirdly the struggle against the powers of Satan, sin and the world, in behalf of God's glory, the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 377
of the way of him who runs amuck, because it is kno^vll that no one can face him. He is thrown by a shot from a gun. Three officers of pohce are unable sometimes to overpower a subject of delirium tremens. It takes the straight-jacket attimes to render insane people powerless, which shows ...
To be near unto God - pagina 375
And Andthus came about deliverance of the thus the names of these heroes are held in lasting honor. Not by our race as a whole, but by the people whose deliverance they have wrought. Meanwhile a third struggle had begun. Not against nature, and not against the lust of robbery and murder of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 379
ness of the blessedness which is eternal, and Te therefore the word "continually" in the Deum expresses admirably the characteristic of the super-earthly, of what is devoted to God, even the kingdom of heaven. It sounds paradoxical to us, when the apostle "Pray without ceasing," or to: exhorts us ...
To be near unto God - pagina 378
through this highest inspiration, which the inworking of the Holy Ghost alone can bring about in mj^ soul, I know that it is God's will, and that it must be done And then it is, if you like, a miracle, for then you do and suffer that which far supersedes your own strength. But the wall yields, it ...
To be near unto God - pagina 381
again to the world, in the life of which the rest Such is the existence of of the day is spent. him who out of every twenty-four hours of the day spends eight in bed, more than fifteen in the world, and altogether scarcely half an hour with God. He has often tried to retire half an hour for praye ...
To be near unto God - pagina 380
the Lord, to set him always before you, and to your eyes ever upon him, is simply impossible, because from the nature of the case, human life, surroundings, business cares and daily duties forbid it. For in this sense both David and Paul knew well that life is not ceaseless devotion and the world ...
To be near unto God - pagina 382
But gradually there comes a disclosing- We begin to live a little more with and in our own heart. And when we enter our heart sufficiently deeply, we find there God, the Holy Ghost, who has compassion on us. This of itself brings us to a life of two phases; one outward and the other inward. But t ...
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