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To be near unto God - pagina 11
He who has not learned this secret may say with his lips: It is good for me to hold me fast by God (Ps. 73:27 Prayer-Book version), but he can not grasp it. So he passes it by as though it meant in general a pious frame of mind apart from feeling the burning within of the spark of true personal l ...
To be near unto God - pagina 12
It might have been efficacious, withdrawing from the world they had been able to leave the world behind. But we carry it in our heart. Wherever we go it goes with us. There are no monastic walls so thick, or places in forests so distant, but Satan has means to reach them. To shut oneself out from ...
To be near unto God - pagina 13
—thisis the lesson of history in all ages. But the ways of the world are cruel. Its cruelties have assumed finer forms, but this refinement has made them more intolerable. In former days there was much that reminded people of the sanctities of life, that made them think of higher things, a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 14
main standing afaroff,but seeks access to the in personal contactimmediate presence of God, of soul with the Eternal. 2"THE SOULS WHICHIHAVE MADE."There is a peculiar charm about the thing which we have made. Not because of any intrinsic value it ...
To be near unto God - pagina 15
and times bear witness that there vibrates another string in mother love than that of selfishness, the sound of which can only be understood child.ownwhenit isThe motherisrecalled that she bore the conscious of a part of herThe two do not life in t ...
To be near unto God - pagina 16
The Fathername comforting thought.ofGod expresses It impliesthissamenot merely thathuman father's love, and that God loves too, but that both the love of human parents and the love of God spring from the same source, to-wit: that God has created and made ...
To be near unto God - pagina 17
If on entering the gallery one day the aforementioned artist saw that an angry intruder had wantonly, under cover of night, cut his paintings with a knife, his bitterness of soul would know no bounds, not merely because these paintings had been destroyed as treasures of This inart, but as works o ...
To be near unto God - pagina 18
thought in hand. The plummet goes far deeper. The saving and uplifting power of this confession is only felt when each morning is begun anew with the vivid realization of the inspiring thought that the soul in us is a work of art, made by the High and Holy One, on which his Honor hangs, over whic ...
To be near unto God - pagina 19
taken to improve financial conditions.Onlythink of how much there is at stake in this matter, as regards the education of the young, our own moral and spiritual development, and the cause of God's kingdom in the earth. Money is a great power, and in times of pressing needs the lack ...
To be near unto God - pagina 20
the two kinds of riches in contrast with each other; riches in money and riches in God. Not that one excludes the other. If we are rich in God, it is nothing against us to be rich in worldly goods. For then we will be well aware of the fact that we are but stewards of the Almighty, and money will ...
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