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— 3?"WITHALL."The commandment bor as ourselvesisthat ^.e shall love our neighso strongly emphasized in these the rank and file of people thedays, that among first and great commandment is more and more forgotten. That it is everyone's calling first of all ...
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would bind this love for God upon the conscience of his hearers, with such warmth and eloquence, that the whole congregation would be impressed with his tender devotion to God, and would be inspired by his zeal to such a degree as to be itself revived in its love for God, with the board of offici ...
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then was the degree of tenderness in the love, and how long did this exaltation of soul continue? More 3'et, how often did it become in us And suppose we ha\'e a thirsting after God? come thus far, not every day, but most days, how far distant are we even then from loving God with all the heart, ...
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than one: even Christ. Jesus alone has fulfilled the second commandment of love to fellowmen, and with respect to this, be it at a far distance, many saints have pressed his footsteps. But in the fulfilment of the first and great commandment Jesus stands incomparably alone. He alone has loved God ...
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the love of God has come first, and that with all our imperfections and shortcomings it has been our deepest desire and will to have God's love be our supremest inspiration, and that it has prepared us for what is highest and best. And this is the mystery of being a Christian, that as we hide our ...
To be near unto God - pagina 206
outwardappearanceinterestsus.Itismorestrongly attractive when we admire a man's courage and energy, devotion and self-sacrifice. But do not assimilate it into all this passes away. our life. As a rule, the emotions of the heart, which do not touch ...
To be near unto God - pagina 207
with all the heart does this love begin to glow in us with real human feeling. Love of the heart is irresistible, mutual attracThe Scripture speaks of it more than once tion. When as: "a cleaving of the soul unto God." the magnet draws the steel so closely to itself that there is even no more air ...
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strong or weak. And when a great love itself to you, goes out after you, and begins to affect you, you likewise feel the irresistibleness of its drawing, Jesus himself calls this outgoing of love "drawing." The Father draws his elect. Of himself the Savior said I will draw all men unto me. That i ...
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very great, because there is personal response. This is not the case with nature, nor with science or jurisprudence; but it is with a dog that will risk his life for j^ou.All this, however, is but the prelude of higher love, and only with man it begins to speak in richer language, and to r ...
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child otherwise^ than by disinterested kindness. And this is just what God has done for us. He has done it in Christ. In Christ he has come to us as man, to make the inequality equal, to join himself to our life and in everything to become like unto the brethren, only sin excepted. This is the gr ...
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