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To be near unto God - pagina 566
that heaven, stare atit, and call to it and supGod, or he who alone could do would rend those heavens, and afford us accessplicate, that our it,again to them.And this prayer has been answered in Chriat. First in that he descended from heaven, and then in that he ascend ...
To be near unto God - pagina 568
But for him, for her. of spirituality. believes, the heavens are opened, and from thence pours forth into the darkness of this world and into the darkness of our own heart, a soft, blessed glow of light, love and Ufe. And the souland lackwhothatischerished there ...
To be near unto God - pagina 569
the "Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani" Jesus quoted Psalm 22 and of itself there could be no plural used whenever the Son of God practiced fellowshipwith theFather.Jesus as such stoodalone, in holy isolation.And thoughentirelymaynot be in that exa ...
To be near unto God - pagina 570
and the miseryof lifemay makeitselfknownina particular way to each of us. This, however, does not take away the fact that all sin and misery flows from one common source, that it makes us sharers of a common lot, and that it should move us unitedly to cal ...
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 ...
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