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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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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108"MAKE ABODE WITH The sublime noteof joy withHIM." which the apos-tolate went out into the world, concentrated itself in the confession: ''The Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us." The Gospel did not first come in Bethlehem, it resounded already in Paradise, and ...
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shown, but in the New Testament the reality has appeared in the person of Christ. "The law, which is given by Moses" (John 1:17) does not refer to the ten commandments. The law here is the name of the whole Old Testament, taken as an instruction, a revelation, a word of God addressed to Israel. T ...