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To be near unto God - pagina 509
than for you, when in prayer they come a Httle 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 tru ...
To be near unto God - pagina 508
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 congregation ...
To be near unto God - pagina 511
not only enables us to pray, but to pray in such sacred terms as to carry the soul with them? A twofold cause here operates. First, language. Prayer and praise have a language of their own.This language does notriseof itselffrom every soul. There have been those who we ...
To be near unto God - pagina 514
tion: Thy will be done on earth among us as in heaven among thy angels. Here the reference to heaven is immediate. Here both the similarity and the difference of life on earth and life in heaven is simultaneously shown. Here Jesus urges us. that in prayer, and in seeking the nearness of God, we s ...
To be near unto God - pagina 513
our consciousness fails us, the nearness of God continues to support the soul, which he has calledunto himself.But however closely these two are allied, they must always be carefully distinguished. Whether God is near unto us, and whether we are near unto God, is not the same. And i ...
To be near unto God - pagina 512
power distantof the world thataims at keeping us farfrom 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 ga ...
To be near unto God - pagina 515
Patmos it was the same. There, too, the seer's eye beheld the holy One, and also the Chenibim who reveal God's majesty, and what is more, from ''the elders," i. e. from the circles of the "Thou, Lord, blest, he heard the hymn of praise :worthy to receive glory and honor and power I" And so ...
To be near unto God - pagina 516
to introduce intermediary persons between our soul and God, to whom to look for help rather than to God. It is plain, therefore, that for the sake of correcting this abuse, safety was sought in sobriety, and that with holy enthusiasm it was undertaken not to allow oneself to be drawn away in his ...
To be near unto God - pagina 519
takes care of himself, because, in case his sin be-came known, it would injure his good name. A third strives against a temptation because indulgence would ruin him financially. A fourth puts a mark against a given sin because in his narrower circle of life it is sharply condemned. Only th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 517
communioii with that world is possible. When the Psalmist would praise God, he calls upon the There angels to praise and bless the Lord (Ps. 103) is an host of the Lord that encampeth round about them that fear God. Not only Satan, the head of .but good angels, too, are in communication wi ...
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