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To be near unto God - pagina 370
broad shadows, and so afford the protection from the heat of the sun. Thus it is in the vallej'^ in the midst of the mountains, and metaphorically for God's child in the midst of troubles. When, languishing and hardpressed he can do nothing more. God is a fountain to him, and it is God who stretc ...
To be near unto God - pagina 367
are inclined to accept the sacred mysteries, provided they but discover that sacred power goes out from you. When thej- see no such power; and perceive that fruit remains wanting; that there is no higher seriousness of life; when they hear on the contrary, of hypocrites who behind fair exteriors ...
To be near unto God - pagina 371
such a place the Psahn is sung, that God is the fountain of hfe, everyone understands it, the dehghtful imagery appeals to them ail, and the pregnant thought enters into every soul, that without God we would perish in our miseries from thirst, and that God alone is the center, in whom all they wh ...
To be near unto God - pagina 372
distances and separations in society and churches hold us apart; but spiritually and unseen, all that are born of God, gather together day by day at this One Fountain of life. And it is the one Christ who from his abundance quenches the thirst of all. And from being really one in Christ,an ...
To be near unto God - pagina 373
All Paradise was with them. It was altogether pleasure without burden. At one point only they were in danger. That was their spiritual estate. In this they were vulnerable. If the soul fell down they were gone unless God saved them, risks.;they were gone forever. The curse, which ca ...
To be near unto God - pagina 374
of heroes who knew how to restrain the monster of destruction. Most people hve upon their common strength. WeakHngs hve beneath themselves. But there have always been a few, who have excelled themselves. And later generations have honored these heroes as men, who have achievedthe superhuma ...
To be near unto God - pagina 376
in sickness and in threatening destruction; the struggle for existence and a living. The struggle against our fellowmen, when they do us wrong, slander us and threaten our rights and liberties. And thirdly the struggle against the powers of Satan, sin and the world, in behalf of God's glory, the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 377
of the way of him who runs amuck, because it is kno^vll that no one can face him. He is thrown by a shot from a gun. Three officers of pohce are unable sometimes to overpower a subject of delirium tremens. It takes the straight-jacket attimes to render insane people powerless, which shows ...
To be near unto God - pagina 375
And Andthus came about deliverance of the thus the names of these heroes are held in lasting honor. Not by our race as a whole, but by the people whose deliverance they have wrought. Meanwhile a third struggle had begun. Not against nature, and not against the lust of robbery and murder of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 379
ness of the blessedness which is eternal, and Te therefore the word "continually" in the Deum expresses admirably the characteristic of the super-earthly, of what is devoted to God, even the kingdom of heaven. It sounds paradoxical to us, when the apostle "Pray without ceasing," or to: exhorts us ...
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