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To be near unto God - pagina 8
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To be near unto God - pagina 9
TO BE NEAR UNTO GOD 1"IT ISGOOD FOR ME TO BE NEAR UNTO GOD.""I When in holy ecstacy the Psalmist sings:voice my love the Lord, because He hath heard whole and my supplication," he pours out his be anasoul in his song, but the love can not different and a lized. To have love f ...
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sonified. Then God becomes the Shepherd wh* leads us, the Father who spiritually begat us the covenant-God to whom we sustain the covenant relation, the Friend who oifers us friendship the Lord whom we serve, the God of qui trust, who is no longer merely God, but our Godtoy many years we m ...
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He who has not learned this secret may say with his lips: It is good for me to hold me fast by God (Ps. 73:27 Prayer-Book version), but he can not grasp it. So he passes it by as though it meant in general a pious frame of mind apart from feeling the burning within of the spark of true personal l ...
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It might have been efficacious, withdrawing from the world they had been able to leave the world behind. But we carry it in our heart. Wherever we go it goes with us. There are no monastic walls so thick, or places in forests so distant, but Satan has means to reach them. To shut oneself out from ...
To be near unto God - pagina 13
—thisis the lesson of history in all ages. But the ways of the world are cruel. Its cruelties have assumed finer forms, but this refinement has made them more intolerable. In former days there was much that reminded people of the sanctities of life, that made them think of higher things, a ...
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and times bear witness that there vibrates another string in mother love than that of selfishness, the sound of which can only be understood child.ownwhenit isThe motherisrecalled that she bore the conscious of a part of herThe two do not life in t ...
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If on entering the gallery one day the aforementioned artist saw that an angry intruder had wantonly, under cover of night, cut his paintings with a knife, his bitterness of soul would know no bounds, not merely because these paintings had been destroyed as treasures of This inart, but as works o ...
To be near unto God - pagina 16
The Fathername comforting thought.ofGod expresses It impliesthissamenot merely thathuman father's love, and that God loves too, but that both the love of human parents and the love of God spring from the same source, to-wit: that God has created and made ...
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