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To be near unto God - pagina 539
Moreover, it must be granted that in our extremely defective condition certain definite and special consecration of a part of our life, of our strength and of our money to religious activities and interests is necessary. You can not serve God all the days of your life in such a way but that the d ...
To be near unto God - pagina 541
whateveranythingwithreferencetothis,isunbelief.When, therefore, the Apostle says: "Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord," he says nothing but what immediately flows from your confession that you believe in God the Father Almighty ...
To be near unto God - pagina 540
but to be true and genuine, it must be a golden thread that maintains its glistening brightness throughout all of life. life,depends on whether you truly believe is almighty, the Creator of heaven and earth. Whether you believe and consider that ever}'- material you handle is his creature; ...
To be near unto God - pagina 542
positionoflifewhatsoever,from God, but alwaysneverlaborin his creationandapart iiihisservice.Then to be near unto God, the fellowship with the Eternal, the secret walk with him who knoweth the heart, is no sweet-s ...
To be near unto God - pagina 543
people that is near unto God." It says in full: "He hath exalted the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near unto him" (Psalm 148:14). The distinction that is here made is, that not only the individual soul may find itself in closer fellowsh ...
To be near unto God - pagina 545
which allows the supervision of the church to be general. And so there are many causes that co-operate, but among these the principal cause Life in the country itself, and the always is: consequent influence of nature, of the visible crea-moreGod whichsurrounds the countryman ...
To be near unto God - pagina 544
and andelasticity.ofThisisthe result of greater frictionmore intense competition.He whoinsuch cities still cherished the sacred traditions of the fathers, did so under protest. He had to suffer for it, and to struggle in behalf of it. ...
To be near unto God - pagina 546
without. In the city alone from within, while the voice makes itself loudly heard in all sorts of ways to hush the voice of the Lord, even in his starry heaven and in his thunder. They who are advanced in years, and whose life's task is done, not infrequently seek the country again tohuman ...
To be near unto God - pagina 547
Psalms is Job with his wondrous descriptions of the Behemoth, the horse and the pleiadea. It is all one mighty call in the greatness and beauty of nature to behold the glory of God.And whenwe cometo the preachagain the self-same call: 'Consider the lilies of the field, how th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 548
voices of nature. "In his temple," says the Psalmist, after having described the power of God in nature, "in his temple doth everj'one speak of his glory" (Psalm 29:9). And in the Hallelujah song of Psalm 147 it is said that Israel is highly exalted above primitive peoples, because the Lord hath ...
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