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To be near unto God - pagina 375
such a place the Psalm is sung, that God is the fountain of life, everyone understands it, the delightful imagery appeals to them all, and the pregnant thought enters into every soul, that without God we would perish in our miseries from thirst, and that God alone is the center, in whom all they ...
To be near unto God - pagina 376
distances and separations in society and churches hold us apart; but spiritually and unseen, all that are born of God, gather together day by day at And it is the one this One Fountain of life. Christ who from his abundance quenches the thirst of all. And from being really one in Christ, and from ...
To be near unto God - pagina 377
All Paradise was with them. It was altoAt one point gether pleasure without burden. 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 came upon ...
To be near unto God - pagina 378
of heroes who of destruction. mon strength.knew how to Most people Weaklingsrestrain themonsterlive upon their comlive beneath themselves.But there have always been a few, who have excelled themselves. And later generations have honored these heroes as men, who ...
To be near unto God - pagina 379
leaped. And thus came about deliverance of the people. And 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 havewrought.Meanwhile a third struggle had begun. Not against nature, and not against the lust of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 380
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 381
way of him who runs amuck, because it is known that no one can face him. He is thrown by a shot from a gun. Three officers of police of theare unable sometimes to overpower a subject of delirium tremens. It takes the straight-jacket at times to render insane people powerless, which shows w ...
To be near unto God - pagina 382
through this highest inspiration, which the inworking of the Holy Ghost alone can bring about in my 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 383
ness of the blessedness which is eternal, and therefore the word "continually" in the Te 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 exhorts us to: "Pray without ceasing," or ...
To be near unto God - pagina 384
the Lord, to set him always before you, and to fix 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 But i ...
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