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To be near unto God - pagina 589
In our twentieth century, however, the table turns again. There is once more a reveille, but not in the Christian domain. It is far more a reveille of mystic, religious feeling, entirely independent of Christianity, for the most part rejecting the way of truth and seeking ways of its own, and thu ...
To be near unto God - pagina 590
what criticism this demands at and what duty this lays upon them.selvestheir hands,They maintaintheir stand. They do this by grace that is within, and by the spiritual impulse that operates in them. Though they should have to die for Jesus, they can not forsake his Cro ...
To be near unto God - pagina 592
than he who has drifted with weather and wind tide. But it brings weariness. It wears on the mind. And the aftermath of this exhaustion involves the danger that the spirit of the world outwits j^ou, and makes you dread still more a new course, which is attended with danger, perhaps of death. If, ...
To be near unto God - pagina 591
behalf of these wanderers, involuntarily, ascends from their troubled hearts. Even in the deepest parts of their inward life they undergo the noticeable influence of this change in the signs of the times. To be near unto God and to continue there is far easier when everything around you warmly ca ...
To be near unto God - pagina 593
Always let them feel that you care for their eternal welfare. In order that you may do this, do not separate yourself, but take part in actual life. Be at home in what the things of the world, under God's providence, provide of interest and beauty. Al-ways keep open a space where you can m ...
To be near unto God - pagina 594
circles is superficial, which brings the kindly smile to the face, but does not evoke it from the heart. Our life with God can not subject itself to the mechanical. Even as in nature, the utterance of life in the spiritual realm is organic. And as every tree unfolds a different leaf, and every st ...
To be near unto God - pagina 595
anxiety. Robust health or wasting disease imparts an altogether different stamp to your inner existence. After victory over self in the hour of temptation your fellowship with God is of an entirely different nature from what it is after fainting in sin and fall. Under all this the heart is always ...
To be near unto God - pagina 596
soul.Andallditions of soul influence uponthese transitions in age and conexert of themselves a necessary-our communion life with God. develops itself from what went before. Thus with the regular, undisturbed development of person there is a continual enrichment, ...
To be near unto God - pagina 597
He is not conscious of it, and therefore can not explain it. But it is evident even from his fear in the dark, or at strange sights and sounds. This fear shows that the child knows and perceives the existence of another world from that which he sees with his eyes. Hence his faith in the reality o ...
To be near unto God - pagina 598
praying with the child, so that the child feels more disturbed in his religious impulses than led and helped. It is equally cruel and painful, in the presence of the child, to be unsympathetic, rough and hard in holy things. This hurts the heart of the child, and then it does not take long for th ...
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