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exhaustion of strength? He, after whose Image we are created, never wearies. The heavenly hosts of angels do not sleep. Of the new Jerusalem we read: "There shall be no more night." We can imagine a being, who does not exhaust his strength and therefore needs no sleep. Why God appointed life for ...
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most dreams are forgotten on waking. And at rare times they leave a memory, nothing but vague, vanishing and mixed images float before the mind. Even the petition from thewhenold evening song, "In sleeping let me wait on Thee; in dreams be Thou my joy," does not de-termine, s ...
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Atwenight, on our beds,when we cannot sleep, Much more so, in-feel our helplessness.deed, than when by day garments adorn our person, when our word makes our Influence a power and when we labor to make or maintain our position in life. We lie prostrate on our be ...
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which leads either to sin or to glory. depends upon the manner in which these sleepless hours are spent. If wakefulness leads to nothing but gloomy and peevish complaint by day and to a rebellious turning over of self on the bed by night, it works sin. But when such sleepless hours are spent in t ...
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a response and it did not come, how often has it turned courage into dismay. To get no hearing! What restlessness it brings when fear is harbored whether it is well with child, or brother far off, and one writes and writes again, and no reply follows, and a telegram is sent with prepayment for an ...
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The midnight watch has something of Sabbath stillness about it, which is inaugurated by the evening reading of God's Word, and by the evening prayer, when on bended knees the soul was poured out before God. At length we areAnd nowthe cares and anxieties of either be resolutely put a ...
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man or woman or the world prays and calls. And when prayer brings no help, and danger is not averted, and no answer is granted, the seemingly futile prayer falls heavily back upon the heart embittered by disthe religiousappointment. The case is altogether different with the deThe saintly m ...
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Lord, hear me," and obtained the coveted me, answer, and "the fire of the Lord consumed the sacrifice." But the saints of God in the earth have not always been similarly favored. Read the com"0, God, keep plaint of Asaph in Psalm 83: not thou silence; hold not thy peace as one deaf and be not sti ...
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speak with others whose faces we cannot see, but whose voice we receive in return. So far have we advanced that telegraphy permits communication without vnre or any visible, tangible guidance. And now we understand how this communication can be disturbed, interrupted and sometimes altogether brok ...
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not joined to the Eternal. Pray as we may, God! hold not thythere is no fellowship. self as one deaf; why dost thou not hear me? But religion operates. The loss of Divine fellowship makes us very unhappy. Some sinful inclination of the heart has caused it. Some The heart has secret sin has preven ...
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