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a step that will not be taken; it is an exertion from which we shrink, or it is sin in some material direction, or in the home, in public or in church life which we seek to harmonize with the privileges of Divine grace. But it will not do. In God's mind it is unthinkable. And as long as we persis ...
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The angels before God's throne are pictured with wings as seraphs. The Holy Ghost came upon the Son of Man descending like a dove. The secret prayer of the troubled soul is that it That winged might have wings to fly away. creatures should be used as symbols to express what is most tender and aff ...
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guished from this is what we think, what we picture to ourselves, what we study out in our minds, what we take as the abstract world of thought. interpret all this to be an unreal world, the center of which is God. An infinite Being whoWeexists merely in our thought, in our mind, in ...
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deeper meaning than even an outsider, who admires it, thinks. It speaks of protection -and compassion for the sake of which the little ones are gathered together. It implies that the chickens belong with the mother hen. And except they return to her they can not be shielded against cold and other ...
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doubt, even for a moment, imnen^es and breaks us down. Then we are like the little chicken that anxiously looks around for the mother hen, and not finding her anywhere, helplessly flies hither and thither until snatched away by the hawk. Then all confidence is gone; and gone the perception of one ...
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gnaws dreamat the root of all religion. It is the futile of a little, insignificant world, of which self is the great center, whose mind understands everything, whose will controls everything, whosemoney can buyeverything, and whose power everything before it. This makes self ...
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secret place of the most High, of abiding under the shadow of the Almighty, of knowing what it means, "To Be Near Unto God," and of enjoying it.then we have thus far been strangers to God, us not imagine, that in time of danger, when thunder-clouds have gathered thickly overhead, and all h ...
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of Eden than the soft suction of air, which m warmer climates, occasions the morning and evening breeze. Hence there is no mention in thenarrative of Paradise of a sudden rise of wind, but of a fixed, periodical one, which is called "A Wind of Day." And to Adam and Eve this wind of day ann ...
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it cometh, and wither it goeth," and such with the ISoly Ghost. In Northern lands like ours, where the wind is an ordinary phenomenon, this impression is no longer felt so strongly. But in the countries where Revelation had its rise and weather conditions were more constant, which makes the rise ...
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may be interrupted, the renewal of love never comes from without, but always from the depth of the soul. It is always Immanuel, God with us; in Christ with all his people; in the Holy Ghost with his child. And by the side of this is the symbol of the wind. Softly the wind of day enters Paradise. ...