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To be near unto God - pagina 331
never be lost from sight.we can notIt is so wide that possibly explain the connection be-tween our time and God's eternity, though we that there must be such a relation, andknowWhenthere is. we die in Christ we shall enter upon an eternity of everlasting ...
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and presentlyin the future, whereby our short appears to be almost endlessly long and great. Even the single year that is past seemed so long, that only a few of its significant dajng are clearly remembered, and the new year just begun makes an impression as though it could never end. Our ...
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Whatever the year never understood from itself. Before God, all of human life, with all its years, forms one plan, one end, one whole. This plan, of our life did not begin at birth but traces its and destiny be understood.of lifelinesmaybe,it isback to th ...
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and appointment always accompanies us. not what would smile on us this year, but what must happen with us, for the accomplishment of his plan regarding us, determines what the year will bring. And why it must be so and not otherwise we can not understand now, buthis planAndwe ...
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Godputshiminto the smelting-furnace, or addsfiner cuttings to the diamond of the souJ, though his eyes may glisten with tears, he will nobly bear up in the strength of faith; for he knows it is necessary for his good; that it can not be otherwise; and that if it were o ...
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by large charities. But nothing of all this can compare with the unsparing compulsion with which the Holy 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 thateven more exalted ...
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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, whi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 338
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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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 But with whatever difference, in artist singer. disposition the human voice is a joyful noise of heave ...
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eliminated from the services of the sanctuary. 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 Christian people who do not sing and of life. play for the glory of God wrong themselves. go"IN ...
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