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it cometh, and wither it goeth," and such with the ISoly Ghost. In Northern lands like ours, where the wind is an ordinary phenomenon, this impression is no longer felt so strongly. But in the countries where Revelation had its rise and weather conditions were more constant, which makes the rise ...
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may be interrupted, the renewal of love never comes from without, but always from the depth of the soul. It is always Immanuel, God with us; in Christ with all his people; in the Holy Ghost with his child. And by the side of this is the symbol of the wind. Softly the wind of day enters Paradise. ...
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of the Spirit. God himself dwells in the innerrecess of the soul. The temple stands for the overvN'helming wealth of all-embracing love; the gale remains the symbol of the Majesty of And only when both of these operate God. purely, each within its own domain, there is the most exalted worship of ...
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meditative life with too much tenderness in it not do. He who gives himself to this weakens and enervates his spiritual nature, becomes unfit for his Divine calling in the world, and loses even the exhilirating freshness of his piety. With a healthful state of heart this change is steady and regi ...
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us.So the voice of God follows uswooafter throughand to win us for Himself. Lost, therefore, is each day in which the voice of God passes by us in the wind of the day, but leaves us unmoved and indifferent. \^'Tiile blessed in turn is each day in which in "'the wind of ...
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myafter the water brooks, so panteth soul after thee, O God," And here it is the direct opposite: ''Turn thee away from me, that soul may refresh itself." On the one hand intense longing for the joy of the presence of God, and on the other hand the crs^ of agony for deliverance from God's ...
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have long ignored, and they tremble in their hearts. In ordinary' life we are sufficient unto ourselves. extricate ourselves from our little difficulties. have the means at command to provide know how to rise against special needs. above simple adversities. And when they are overcome, the triumph ...
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way by those who all their life have been there is a deeply impressed by God's power. For b essed two-fold sense of God's presence, ^ow awful confellowship with God. And again in the the fears sciousness of God's terrible presence w'lth after that assail us. And if we were dealt this latter our s ...
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they have so long ignored him, adds to thet-errorof their fears.Butapprehension of dread affects the godly when faith fails him, and God momentarily lets him go. Then it seems that God loosens his hold on the soul and at the same time tightens his hold more firmly on t ...
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But if momentarily faith fails us, and the shield of Christ is taken away from before us, and in the midst of afflictions we feel ourselves suddenly face to face again with the naked majesty of God in his anger, the agony of soul in God's otherwise devoted children is more terrible than the child ...
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