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Myand attentioncalls him: dear Father, perat once, that by this name a world of thought passes through his heart, and that from the high and holy places God comes nearer to the soul. The name is what I call someone, andceivesname him whom I know. The name immediately c ...
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and learn to know with whom we have to do. provided alwa3^s that we do not allow this Name to run dead in empty sound. Sin also accounts for this. The ''Our Father" is said without any thought of him, or of what the Father name imIt is the plies, as though it were a dead term. curse of custom,whi ...
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word God indicates a highly-exalted Being, that far transcends mankind. But by itself it has no meaning. It is exclusive and reveals nothing. It It does not indicate a single relationship. only becomes significant and vital, when we put the word my before it. and speak of ''my God", or of the "Co ...
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difiference is, that among women, even with children, the personal, baptismal name is used, and almost never the family name, while among men as a rule the family name is in vogue, and the use of the personal name indicates a far higher degree of intimacy. While at length in family life every mor ...
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acknowledges that he shouldlive for God, because his Lord, so that he exists solely and alone for the sake of God. In this revelation of the Name, the love ofGodisGodthat sought us and drew us, has further progress. Israel was taught tomade knowsti ...
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is no hollow sound, but an expression of the Being of God; even of that in him which we need for our comfort in the midst of these changEverything about us comes ing scenes of life. and goes. We ourselves change continuously with every changing thing around us. Scarcely has spring given way to su ...
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tenderness, which no longer hides anything. More yet, the Father-name includes the name of the With the Abba Father comes the surprischild. ing discover>^ that one is himself a child of God, and with it is disclosed the nobility of our race, the royal exaltation above everything that surrounds ...
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This is salvation. Wherefore he who takes the confession of the Trinity as a mere doctrinal question, does not fathom by far what this revelation of Father, Son and Holy Ghost implies. Only the Triune God is the wealth and the delight of the soul. 48"WHO DWELLETH ON HIGH AND BEHOLDETH THE ...
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out far and high above our earthly, human hfe. Nature gives us an impression of it in the firmament that arches high above us, in the sky that hastens upwards, and in the mighty thunder that rolls through the dark hosts of clouds. In a heavy thunder-storm, in the hurricane that rages upon the gre ...
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Reverence before the Almighty has always proved itself most deep and most true with those who stand nearest to the Lord. While on the other hand they who have never entered into seeret fellowship ^^^th God. have become more and more devoid of all salutar\^ fear, awe and reverence before the Lord ...