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declares thatGoddwells in the high and loftythis same God down upon the children of men on earth. Heaven and earth are not intended to be sep-place,itimmediately adds thatlooksform a higher unity, so that the dwells simultaneously both in Go ...
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a part of your heart, till at length you throw up your hands, open your whole heart to him, and now experience with joy that he really in Christ has made his abode in you. This is the continuous Christmas gospel. Not a Christmas gospel that remains standing by the manger, but such an one as passe ...
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evident in the case of Jacob the patriarch. But lesser measure, occasionally such higher inspiration is still witnessed among us when it is not merely a dying in faith, not merely a falling asleep in Jesus, but when fully awake and with open eye it is a triumphant passing through the gate of eter ...
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the nature of disease, degree of weakness, state of nerves, freedom of speech or diffidence, and upon the longer or shorter period of dying. In part, it also depends upon the phj-sician. Whether he conceals the certainty, or at least the probability of the approaching end, or whether frankly and ...
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all sorts of persons on earth, and has endowed with powers to appreciate the glories of nature, and has imparted all sorts of inclinations and callings to us, which go out after visible things. The Stylist who withdraws his eyes from all earthly things, so that- with nothing about him but air he ...
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be near unto God", because you have nothing him in heaven, and because you desire nothing beside him on earth, all the days of your pilgrim journey that still remain. besideno"ASTHE HART PANTETH AFTER THE WATER BROOKS."More than twenty centuries have not been able to d ...
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other purport than the better to glorify theGodand Father of all in Christ. This same thing must here be applied to our secret walk with God. We must frequentb^ ask ourselves: If you had nothing, absolutely nothing aside from God, would your soul be perfectly satisfied? When you see ...
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thecaseofthosewhodieunconsciously in aswoon; sometimes very strongly with the sick, whose pulse is almost gone, and whose breath can And of these no one may say scarcely be felt. that, on account of this, their soul passed away Omnipin secret, and ...
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great anxiety, or want in which we almost perished, impelled us to seek aid and comfort with God in his holy nearness. The paths by which the heart comes to *God wind themselves through And however often they all the parts of our life. are abandoned, these paths every time disclose themselves ane ...
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abled cries as in despair, because having at last reached the stream-bed finds that there is no water there, and which now, from the mere impulse of nature, because it is ready to succumb, and is unable longer to go without drink, breaks the air with its desperate cry for water in the dried-up be ...