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To be near unto God - pagina 77
snakes lurk about, and the shriek of the nightbird startles. Until God rolls the clouds away, and the sun rises again in the soul, and when as by the touch of a magic wand everv'thing becomes new, and light dispels inner darkness, and peace with a friendly hand opens wide the door of the troubled ...
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spiritual conditions whereby some years harvests will be far greater than others. Struggles wherebythe soul climbs upward from lower to higher viewpoints trials that bring the soul into depths of darkness whereby for weeks and months the higher life is buried, as it were, underneath heavy ...
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a step that will not be taken; it is an exertion from which we shrink, or it is sin in some material direction, or in the home, in public or in church life which we seek to harmonize with the privileges of Divine grace. But it will not do. In God's mind it is unthinkable. And as long as we persis ...
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The angels before God's throne are pictured with wings as seraphs. The Holy Ghost came upon the Son of Man descending like a dove. The secret prayer of the troubled soul is that it That winged might have wings to fly away. creatures should be used as symbols to express what is most tender and aff ...
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guished from this is what we think, what we picture to ourselves, what we study out in our minds, what we take as the abstract world of thought. interpret all this to be an unreal world, the center of which is God. An infinite Being whoWeexists merely in our thought, in our mind, in ...
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deeper meaning than even an outsider, who admires it, thinks. It speaks of protection -and compassion for the sake of which the little ones are gathered together. It implies that the chickens belong with the mother hen. And except they return to her they can not be shielded against cold and other ...
To be near unto God - pagina 84
doubt, even for a moment, imnen^es and breaks us down. Then we are like the little chicken that anxiously looks around for the mother hen, and not finding her anywhere, helplessly flies hither and thither until snatched away by the hawk. Then all confidence is gone; and gone the perception of one ...
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gnaws dreamat the root of all religion. It is the futile of a little, insignificant world, of which self is the great center, whose mind understands everything, whose will controls everything, whosemoney can buyeverything, and whose power everything before it. This makes self ...
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secret place of the most High, of abiding under the shadow of the Almighty, of knowing what it means, "To Be Near Unto God," and of enjoying it.then we have thus far been strangers to God, us not imagine, that in time of danger, when thunder-clouds have gathered thickly overhead, and all h ...
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of Eden than the soft suction of air, which m warmer climates, occasions the morning and evening breeze. Hence there is no mention in thenarrative of Paradise of a sudden rise of wind, but of a fixed, periodical one, which is called "A Wind of Day." And to Adam and Eve this wind of day ann ...
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