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To be near unto God - pagina 331
Godputshiminto the smelting-furnace, or adds diamond of the soul, thoughfiner cuttings to the his eyes ghstenmaywith tears, he will nobly bear for he knows it is it can not be otherwise; and that if it were otherwise, his life would forever be a failure. ...
To be near unto God - pagina 332
by large charities. But nothing of all this can compare with the unsparing compulsion with which the H0I3' Ghost in God's word relentlessly drives us to worship, to seek Divine fellowship, to have the soul appear before God. The Scripture places itself at a standpoint that is even more exalted th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 334
sound fromflute or trumpet, it is always an impulse in the soul which interprets itself in a vocal utterance of the world of sound, which in all spheres surrounds us. Neither singer nor harpist creates the world of music. God created it. It was there before the first man heard the first jo ...
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returns an echo to our song of praise that resounds among the spheres. It is no dead, silent creation, stricken with dumbness, but a living creation, that utters speech. And he whose ear is attuned to understand this language of nature, hears the harmonious flow of praise and adoration, which it ...
To be near unto God - pagina 336
eliminated fromtheservicesofthesanctuary.Far better offset abuse by the sanctified use of voice and stringed instrument. The revival of sacred music is always a sign of a higher activity of life. Christian people who do not sing and play for the glory of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 339
the Spirit descending into our hearts, and as well in Christ as in the Holy Ghost God Himself isworshipped by us. This is the mystery. The son of man, who is one of us, who is our brother, who is closely related to us, and who in our nature has gone into heaven, does not stand by the side ...
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lands people are endowed with finer voices than in colder regions. In the same country the difference is wide between the discordant sounds of the street and the rythmic, cultivated voice of the artist singer. But with whatever difference, in disposition the human voice is a joyful noise of heave ...
To be near unto God - pagina 338
ness or distress, is nowhere burdened with the oppressive thought that God is far ofif and that his presence can not be found in prayer. Wherever he kneels down he knows that God is there; that he is close at hand; that he listens to the prayer; that he sees and understands his child, and knows h ...
To be near unto God - pagina 340
supper springs from the focus of The holy supper bears witness to him of the glory of Christ, but only in the congregation, not without it. Hence no higher and holier institution could have been given to men, than when "in the night in which he was betrayed" Christ brake the bread and poured the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 337
fellowship with the living God, which is the heart of all religion, upon the urgent desire of the soul to be ever more and more in constant touch with God. But here we always face an antithesis which we can never solve, before which all science stands helpless; even the antithesis between the inf ...
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