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27"WITH ALL THY SOUL." Whenthe question is raised whether there is one that seeks after God, the Psalmist denies it "They are all gone and bitterly complains: aside, there is none that doeth good, no, not one. There is none that understandeth, there is none But was the that seeketh ...
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obtained along other Hnes than those of and in these he is proficient. With utmost pains he traces what the great thinkers have put into their several doctrinal systems regarding the Being, Work, Person and Attributes of God. On this he ponders. To him it appeals. He prides himself on it before o ...
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altogether and with all its strength to God. In no other realm of life, therefore, does it show more strongly than in religion how utterly abnormal the soul has become by sin. And the worst of it is, that in this matter of religion the soul itself is so little conscious of it. He who has committe ...
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make forms aadfigures of idols after themannerheathen nations, but these are contrivances pure and simple. And in this matter of knowing God, which is eternal life, we have no interest in cunningly constructed fabrications. We want reality. Hence we would say that there can b ...
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in times past. From ancient writings we see people of tiie long ago live and move before us, and things of the past appear like things of the All sorts of cmrents and schools and present. tendencies of thought are ever abroad, one one /way andthe other another. Unanimity there is no ...
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be repressed: Does this man or woman, when the Amen has passed the hps, come away from God, or has the soul, even in devotions, been as far as ever away from him? Undoubtedly there are always some who in prayer and at other times seek fellowship with God in their heart. Upon inquiry, however, we ...
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angel, of the Messiah, or as in Isaiah 6, of the Eternal Being himself, takes place in human form, in human dress, and with the use of human language. With appearances of angels there is no mention of wings, borrowed from the animal world; of these we read in connection with Seraphs surrounding G ...
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has also used observable representation, however transient.In the New, as well as in the Old Testament, repeatedly of angel-appearances and of appearances of the Messiah before his incarnation. And are not angels spirits like God himself, incorporeal and immaterial? We hear repeatedly that ...
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greath' 'whenaman becomesinwardly athirst forGod.Thepity of it is that so far from realizing these workings, powers and exertions are bound to express themselves in love of God, so that loving God with all the soul may become real, the children of ...
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Weare attacked. And ever>'thing tion. real to us that on awakening in fright, it difficultto believe that the burglarseems sowhowefind threat-ened our life does not stand by our bed. This impression of reality in what is imagined is still strong ...
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