To be near unto God - pagina 571
to be daily in spiritual touch with such in one's town, in order to strengthen the faith and in behalf of mutual edification. Only, common fellowship with the godly is altogether different fromlentthesenseofsharingacommonlot"with ...
To be near unto God - pagina 572
continue with you, with those who grow up frcm among the children of the church, and those who are still hidden in the seed of the church, or who are brought into the church from without. No one whom God has included, may we exclude. And that this refers not merely to your salvation, but also to ...
To be near unto God - pagina 573
them, we look for a continuous increase of thebodyof Christ.Then discouragement anddepression give placetriumph and of endless glory. Your case then stands no more alone and by itself, but thousands have shared it with you, and still other thousands have been fa ...
To be near unto God - pagina 577
case. Not the curse of hated and anger. Not base meanness, which uses the curse as a poisoned weapon to wound. But the curse of him who is authorized to pronounce it, the curse of a father, or of a mother, or of one who is clothedeverywith spiritual authority. Such a curse was vaHd ...
To be near unto God - pagina 574
majestic doings of God. Thus your own insigis readily transferred to the Eternal. But when you feel that you are a living member of the whole living body of Christ, that you are one of the multitude that can not be numbered, that you are related to all the saints above, to all God's saints in the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 576
In this habit ofSt.Paul of opening and closinghis epistles with abenediction one can observe the aftermath of the manner of the East, and on this ground take it merely as a phrase, and merely as a formula of good breeding, which as such has no spiritual significance, a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 575
youwill feel yourself in the presence ofhath included you "with same bundle of life.allGod, whosaints" in the self-104"THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THE LOVE OF GOD, AND THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE HOLY GHOST BE WITH YOU ALL." The apostle from ...
To be near unto God - pagina 578
and calmly,i. e. without any perceptible death In most cases nothing more is heard. In the face of all this the church usage has stood firm, and the congregation of God gathers in the sanctuary with the holy salutation and returns homeward with the address of blessing from the Lord. For th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 579
But the real Christian ordinances and usages. meeting of these two spheres takes place only in believers, who still live in this visible world, and yet carry the higher world in their heart; the latter expressing itself in theircommunion withas often as this preponderance of the hol ...
To be near unto God - pagina 580
fully aware of the antithesis between the world and the higher order of things, and always tofoster fellowship with that higher order of things,to strengthen it, to feed it, and to remove everything that might hinder or weaken it out of the way. This power and ability does not come ...