To be near unto God - pagina 371
such a place the Psahn is sung, that God is the fountain of hfe, everyone understands it, the dehghtful imagery appeals to them ail, and the pregnant thought enters into every soul, that without God we would perish in our miseries from thirst, and that God alone is the center, in whom all they wh ...
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distances and separations in society and churches hold us apart; but spiritually and unseen, all that are born of God, gather together day by day at this One Fountain of life. And it is the one Christ who from his abundance quenches the thirst of all. And from being really one in Christ,an ...
To be near unto God - pagina 373
All Paradise was with them. It was altogether pleasure without burden. At one point only they were in danger. That was their spiritual estate. In this they were vulnerable. If the soul fell down they were gone unless God saved them, risks.;they were gone forever. The curse, which ca ...
To be near unto God - pagina 374
of heroes who knew how to restrain the monster of destruction. Most people hve upon their common strength. WeakHngs hve beneath themselves. But there have always been a few, who have excelled themselves. And later generations have honored these heroes as men, who have achievedthe superhuma ...
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in sickness and in threatening destruction; the struggle for existence and a living. The struggle against our fellowmen, when they do us wrong, slander us and threaten our rights and liberties. And thirdly the struggle against the powers of Satan, sin and the world, in behalf of God's glory, the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 377
of the way of him who runs amuck, because it is kno^vll that no one can face him. He is thrown by a shot from a gun. Three officers of pohce are unable sometimes to overpower a subject of delirium tremens. It takes the straight-jacket attimes to render insane people powerless, which shows ...
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And Andthus came about deliverance of the thus the names of these heroes are held in lasting honor. Not by our race as a whole, but by the people whose deliverance they have wrought. Meanwhile a third struggle had begun. Not against nature, and not against the lust of robbery and murder of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 379
ness of the blessedness which is eternal, and Te therefore the word "continually" in the Deum expresses admirably the characteristic of the super-earthly, of what is devoted to God, even the kingdom of heaven. It sounds paradoxical to us, when the apostle "Pray without ceasing," or to: exhorts us ...
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through this highest inspiration, which the inworking of the Holy Ghost alone can bring about in mj^ soul, I know that it is God's will, and that it must be done And then it is, if you like, a miracle, for then you do and suffer that which far supersedes your own strength. But the wall yields, it ...
To be near unto God - pagina 381
again to the world, in the life of which the rest Such is the existence of of the day is spent. him who out of every twenty-four hours of the day spends eight in bed, more than fifteen in the world, and altogether scarcely half an hour with God. He has often tried to retire half an hour for praye ...