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To be near unto God - pagina 343
the Spirit descending into our hearts, and as well in Christ as in the Holy Ghost God Himself isworshipped by us. This is the mystery. The son of man, who is one of us, who is our brother, who is closely related to us, and who in our nature has gone into heaven, does not stand by the side ...
To be near unto God - pagina 346
ship with God. Where it was night in the soul, the sun does not immediately after conversion stand at the zenith. Here also are transitions. Beginning with a first ray of light; a first parting of clouds ; a first breaking up of mists until a glow from higher spheres strikes the eye of the soul. ...
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so they said, and their heart still went out after the unknown Infinite. Now another step is taken. Even the appearance of godliness can be laid aside. Atheists have especially among cultivated discovered that classes they are represented by more people than they had dared to surmise. They observ ...
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but he gets farther and farther away from it. The transition is continuous from night into clearer day, until at length there is fellowship with Grod, which the world neither knows nor understands, but which to him is highest reality, the source, the ever free-flowing fountain of the strength of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 347
God shows this ever more clearly in the soul. favor in the personal life. Increasing brightness Less night and more day in our personal skies. in which ever more and ever clearer light is sown on our pathway. As an effect of this inner growth, there is greater exhibition of power. He who must tra ...
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heart. This thick darkness is the explanation of all idolatry and of all heathen oppression. And therefore Simeon rejoices in Christ as in "a light," so great, so beautiful, which having come down from the throne of heaven, lightens the darkened vision of the Gentiles. The densest darkness of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 351
Many are atheists They care for nothing. indifference. Others are atheists, because in their career of sinful pleasure they will not brook trouble from their consciences. Others again are atheists, because in their own wisdom they are too proud to bow before God. But each of these three groups ma ...
To be near unto God - pagina 353
master of these present-day out-and-out people of the world. They still strive for higher things. They are lovers of art. They are zealous in works of philanthropy. They labor for general culture as they understand it. At times they dote with ideals that awaken the poetic talent in them. But far ...
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verts there to Christit is said that at one time they themselves were without hope and without God in the world (Eph. 2:12). And this states painfully what we see all about us. With differences in degree many live year after year who think no more of God, and speak no more about him; no mo ...
To be near unto God - pagina 354
cultivate with young of life with God. This requires effort.and old the supremeWemustrealitylive in the world.Godonly calls us out of the world at death. And almost everything in the world draws us away from God. Not only wealth and temptation, but ...
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