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To be near unto God - pagina 178
ing of God, a better knowledge of him, and an ever clearer insight into his will and purpose. Thus we see that there is still another way of learning to know God than learning about himfrom books or sermons. Further on we will try to show that this knowledge of God from books and sermons i ...
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edge of vation,FromGod i.e.,thebrings us nearer to the to eternal life.havenof sal-we come backto the so works in us that at length we ourselves will what God wills, the process is not outward but inward. It is not that we are here on ...
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Godis great, and we know him not. The most we can do is to kneel in worship before the unknown God."This is w^hat the doubters meant, who at Athens had reared ah altar to the "Unknown God." They did not mean that besides the manygods, whose altars had been reared, there was still an ...
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angelsfulfil it inheaven,"itstimulates our energy,rnJ when we overcome sin the heart overflows with the feeling of supreme joy. But when "Thy will be done" means: ''Let things ^'rsup thew.Ii.occur not as I desire, but in keeping with ...
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of intentions and cherish holiest purposes, at the time of trial we are bound to fail? And this mood must be resisted. This is debasement of self. It not only unfits one for the battle of life, but severs the vital nerve which Better faint ten binds one ro his Divine ideal. times and suffer the p ...
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34"NOT ASIWILL."In the "Our Father," and in Gethsemane, it "Thy will be each time the same prayer: done." But though the emphasis and the words are alike both times, the meaning is different. In the "Our Father" "Thy will be done" means: "Thy will, O God, be done by me ...
To be near unto God - pagina 182
moments in his life when he had to confess: "What I would, that do I not; but what I hate, do" (Rom. 7:15). This is an honest conwhich age upon age has been shamefullyabused, that under the cloak of piety one might continue in sin and keep the conscience quiet. An abuse which shall be judged of G ...
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could a loving God cruelly cast her down from the heights of her great happiness into the depths In perplexity of grief of bereavement and woe? her language becomes that of despair and of"Speak no more of God to me. There is no God." Cruelty can not be love. And so the break of happiness i ...
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heart?Not only has he not saved me my dyinghusband and child, and left me praying without coming to my aid, but he has brought these sorrows upon me. He sent illness into my home, and 0, it is almost too cruel for words, he has torn my husband from my heart and has killed my darling ...
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andleast of all that they are irreligious; that indeed they are most religious and that therefore with deep humility they are frank to confess, that the God whom we worship is One who by his Supreme Majesty withholds his knowledge frommen. this may seem, their viewpoint essentially ...
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