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To be near unto God - pagina 171
that eternal life is a right that belongs to the man of study, and not to the swain who followsAnd we know this can not be true. If God is eternal life, the increasesheep?the knowledge ofknowledge must be forsale for something at every one's disposal, the profes ...
To be near unto God - pagina 172
the knowledge of God, and thereby to obtain ever larger possession and fuller enjoyment of eternal life, provided we separate this utterance of the will less and less from the will of God and derive it more and more from the will of God. Thus every idea of cruelty falls away. Whether life is limi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 173
32'WHO WORKETH IN YOU TO By wedoing willingly whatGodwillsWILL." us to do,knowledge of God; not in barren book-knowledge, but in living soul-knowlThis springs edge, which is itself eternal life. from all sorts of causes, but not least from the fact that o ...
To be near unto God - pagina 174
almost every one has some sort of a manuel, if possible, from which to learn how the body is constructed, nothing is read about the soul. By far the larger numbers of people do not investigate it, but speak at random about the soul, and about the will, and the understanding, and everything is in ...
To be near unto God - pagina 175
moves him along, so he goes, and so turns the rudder in his inner purpose, and the tiller, and the hand that is upon it, i. e., his will. He This is altogether difis a man without a will. ferent when there is direction in the ship. Then the man at the helm directs the course. He knows where he wa ...
To be near unto God - pagina 176
edge of vation,FromGod i.e.,thebrings us nearer to the to eternal life.havenof sal-we come backto the so works in us that at length we ourselves will what God wills, the process is not outward but inward. It is not that we are here on ...
To be near unto God - pagina 177
child, that he has his throne in the inmost recess of the child's soul, and thus has fellowship with him, not from afar, but in the sanctuary of his own person. There God worketh upon us by day and b}^ night, even when we are not conscious of it. He is our Sculptor, who can'es in us the image of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 178
ing of God, a better knowledge of him, and an ever clearer insight into his will and purpose. Thus we see that there is still another way of learning to know God than learning about himfrom books or sermons. Further on we will try to show that this knowledge of God from books and sermons i ...
To be near unto God - pagina 179
Godis great, and we know him not. The most we can do is to kneel in worship before the unknown God."This is w^hat the doubters meant, who at Athens had reared ah altar to the "Unknown God." They did not mean that besides the manygods, whose altars had been reared, there was still an ...
To be near unto God - pagina 180
andleast of all that they are irreligious; that indeed they are most religious and that therefore with deep humility they are frank to confess, that the God whom we worship is One who by his Supreme Majesty withholds his knowledge frommen. this may seem, their viewpoint essentially ...
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