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To be near unto God - pagina 137
Many can not advance beyond this. Their mental grasp has no further reach. And even from such a defective conviction childlike But the thrice faith can borrow moral strength. blessed, who have been initiated into a more sympathetic and more ardent piety, can not rest content with this. They think ...
To be near unto God - pagina 138
are so clearlj' conscious that nothing is more common than the saying: "You see that I am right," where seeing refers to what has been said or explained, and not to anything shown to the eye of sense.From the nature of the case, therefore, to see the Father in Jesus was no primitive act of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 139
detached from his personal appearance. The body discerned, but is not ignored that the soul may be Jesus is taken as he was, appeared, spoke and acted. One appearance is faced, one perfect whole, one mystery. Even as among us there are times when a person becomes radiant and allows his soul to sh ...
To be near unto God - pagina 140
scious, discovers and enjoys. feeling, perceiving, becomingSpiritual seeingisaware of environments with all the latent powers of the soul. It is the internal awakening of human nature, which, created after the image of God, goes back to its originalimage, has clear vis ...
To be near unto God - pagina 141
"WITH ALL THY SOUL." When the question is raised whether there is one that seeks after God, the Psalmist denies it ''They are all gone and bitterly complains: aside, there is none that doeth good, no, not one. There is none that understandeth, there is none But was the seeketh after God" (14:3). ...
To be near unto God - pagina 142
Does this man or woman, when the has passed the hps, come away from God, or has the soul, even in devotions, been as far as ever away from him? Undoubtedly there are always some who in praj'-er and at other times seek fellowship with God in their heart. Upon inquiry, however, we learn that the ma ...
To be near unto God - pagina 144
altogether and with all its strength to God. In no other realm of life, therefore, does it show more strongly than in religion how utterly abnormal the soul has become by sin. And the worst of it is, that in this matter of religion the soul itself is so little conscious of it. He who has committe ...
To be near unto God - pagina 145
obtained along other Hnes than those of and in these he is proWith utmost pains he traces what the ficient. great thinkers have put into their several doctrinal systems regarding the Being, Work, Person and Attributes of God. On this he ponders. To him it appeals. He prides himself on it before H ...
To be near unto God - pagina 143
Fromancient writings we see peoand move before us, and things oi the past appear like things of the All sorts of currents and schools and present. tendencies of thought are ever abroad, one one Unanimity there is waj' and the other another. none. Seeking God with all the heart is unknown. ...
To be near unto God - pagina 146
greatl3'whenaman becomesinwardly athirst forGod.Thepity of it is that so far from realizing these w^orkings, powers and exertions are bound to express themselves in love of God, so that loving God with all the soul may become real, the children of ...
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