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To be near unto God - pagina 508
on earth the King of God's kingdom can not be But with this the hkeness ends. That Christ is your king is as a figure of speech, so httle derived from earthly princes that on the contrary the kings in the earth are only imagebearers of his glory, and that true, real, actual kingship is never real ...
To be near unto God - pagina 507
the Divine, in Revelation, the Lamb is not alone our Reconciler and Surety, not alone our Redeemer and Savior, and not alone the Shepherd and Bishop of our soul. No, the Lamb of God— andinthisantithesisyoufeelwhatstrikesandirritates— ...
To be near unto God - pagina 511
exceedinglydifficultart,or ratheritisa sacredwhich demands the utmost clearness, urgency and readiness of soul. But to pray well must never become art, or else it ceases to be prayer. The disciples realized this, and when they had witnessed once ag ...
To be near unto God - pagina 510
—express it, we are bound to him; so that it is one blood of Hfe that circulates in him and in us; and that it is one spirit of life that animates us and him unto life. Yea, that as little as the head can be moved from one place into another, but the foot, the hand, the eye and the ear go ...
To be near unto God - pagina 509
the image before us of the bodj' of Christ, of the in that bod}', and over all these members, the glorious Head. The image here, however, is not merely the human body. Body in this connection rather indicates in a broader sense what we more commonly call an organism, even in the sense in which an ...
To be near unto God - pagina 512
plural: Our Father, our daily bread, our trespasses. In all ages, in all her forms, the Church of Christ has been true to the Our Father. And in our liturgy our fathers also have not only adopted fixed prayers for public worship, but have always ordered the use of ''Our Father" in the congregatio ...
To be near unto God - pagina 513
than for 3'ou, when in pra^'er they come a little nearer unto God, and may perceive something of his holy presence. How much higher did not the apostles of Jesus stand than we, and yet for them Jesus deemed a memorized prayer so little aimless or superfluous, that he himself gave them one. It is ...
To be near unto God - pagina 514
andthat, if prayer is to be maintained, if it shall continue to be a power in the whole church, in every home, for every member of that home, for great and small alike, both must be practiced; as well the prayer from one's own soul, as the written prayer which all can pray, because all hav ...
To be near unto God - pagina 516
power of the world that aims at keeping us far distant from God. The benediction also at the close of public worship might easily be composed by each preacher for himself. That this is not the case, that in the benediction at least a fixed form has been maintained, is a gain to be thankfully ackn ...
To be near unto God - pagina 515
not only enables us to pray, but to pray in such sacred terms as to carrj' the soul with them? A twofold cause here operates. First, language. Prayer and praise have a language of their own. This language does not rise of itself from every soul. There have been those who were specially gifted w^i ...
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