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To be near unto God - pagina 168
the knowledge of God, and thereby to obtain ever larger possessionandfullerenjoyment of eternalprovided we separate this utterance of the will less and less from the will of God and derive life,it more and more from the will of God. every idea of cruelty falls a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 167
that eternal life is a right that belongs to the man of study, and not to the swain who follows sheep? And we know this can Dot be true. Tf the knowledge of God is eternal life, the increase in this knowledge must be for sale for something which is at every one's disposal, the professor in his st ...
To be near unto God - pagina 171
moves him along, so he goes, and so turns the rudder in his inner purpose, and the tiller, and the hand that is upon it, i. e., his will. He This is altogether difis a man without a will. ferent when there is direction in the ship. Then He the man at the helm directs the course. lifeknows ...
To be near unto God - pagina 170
almost every one has some sort of a manuel, illustrated if possible, from which to learn how the body is constructed, nothing is read about By far the larger numbers of people the soul. do not investigate it, but speak at random about the soul, and about the will, and the understanding, and every ...
To be near unto God - pagina 169
32'WHO WORKETH ByINdoing willingly whatYOU TO GodwillsWILL." us to do,of God; not in barren book-knowledge, but in living soul-knowlThis springs edge, which is itself eternal life. from all sorts of causes, but not least from theweinc ...
To be near unto God - pagina 172
edge of God brings us nearer to the haven of salvation, i. e., to eternal life. From the illustration we come back to the matter itself. When God so works in us that at length we ourselves will what God wills, the process is not outward but inward. It is not that we are here on earth below, and t ...
To be near unto God - pagina 173
in his child, that he has his throne in the inmost recess of the child's soul, and thus has fellowship with him, not from afar, but in the sanctuary of his own person. There God worketh upon us by day and by night, even when we are He is our Sculptor, who* not conscious of it. carves in us the im ...
To be near unto God - pagina 174
ing of God, a better knowledge of him, and an will and purpose. Thus we see that there is still another way of learning to know God than learning about him from books or sermons. * Further on we will try to show that this knowl-ever clearer insight into hisedge of God from books and ...
To be near unto God - pagina 175
God is great, and we know him not. The most we can do is to kneel in worship before the unknown God." This is what the doubters meant, who at Athens had reared an altar to the "Unknown God." They did not mean that besides the manygods, whose altars had been reared, there was still another God, wh ...
To be near unto God - pagina 176
andleast of all that they are irreligious; that indeed they are most religious and that therefore with deep humility they are frank to confess, that the God whom we worship is One who by his Supreme Majesty withholds his knowledge frommen.However devoutthismay ...
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