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To be near unto God - pagina 547
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 ...
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which allows the supervision of the church to bemoregeneral.co-operate, butAnd so there are many causes that among these the principal causealways is: Life in the country itself, and the consequent influence of natyre, of the visible creation of God which surrou ...
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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. ...
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without. In the city alone from within, while the human 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 to ...
To be near unto God - pagina 553
Godwe created after the 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 altogether different from a rising or a setting of God's sun; altogether different f ...
To be near unto God - pagina 551
Psalms is Job with his wondrous descriptions of the Behemoth, the horse and the pleiades. It is all one mighty call in the greatness and beauty of nature to behold the glory of God.And when in Scripture we come to the preaching of the Son of Man, it is again the self-same call: "Consider t ...
To be near unto God - pagina 552
voices of nature. "In his temple," says the Psalmist, after having described the power of God in nature, "in his temple doth ever3^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 554
100"THOU TRIEST MINE HEART, THAT ISITWITH THEE."Manycauses 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 The most common is, that earthly interests it. so ...
To be near unto God - pagina 555
and the inclination tofleefrom God was strongerthan to be near unto God. We perceive this change in our spiritual attitude f' early, at once and in the most painful way,whenit was a sin that tempted us; a sin which, once committed, startled us, and for which we ...
To be near unto God - pagina 556
God, when you know him in ail your ways, and have been initiated into the secret of salvation, and then commit a sin which startles and frightens you, and brings a dark cloud to your sky, and you are thrown back upon yourself, and you feel that you have no more part in the lovely walk with God. I ...
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