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To be near unto God - pagina 341
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 ...
To be near unto God - pagina 342
ness or distress, is nowhere burdened with the oppressive thought that God is far off 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 hi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 343
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 ...
To be near unto God - pagina 344
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 345
ing the day in its fulness, though in fact we walk It is light, but that light is dim. in twilight. Even after conversion we continue therefore provisionally in a certain kind of sleep, and the convert can only gradually escape its after-effects. Such was the case in the days of St. Paul, when th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 346
ship with God. Where it was night in the soul, the sun does not immediately after conversion stand at the zenith. Here also are transitions. Beginning with a first ray of light; a first parting of clouds ; a first breaking up of mists until a glow from higher spheres strikes the eye of the soul. ...
To be near unto God - pagina 347
God shows this ever more clearly in the soul. favor in the personal life. Increasing brightness Less night and more day in our personal skies. in which ever more and ever clearer light is sown on our pathway. As an effect of this inner growth, there is greater exhibition of power. He who must tra ...
To be near unto God - pagina 348
heart. This thick darkness is the explanation of all idolatry and of all heathen oppression. And therefore Simeon rejoices in Christ as in "a light," so great, so beautiful, which having come down from the throne of heaven, lightens the darkened vision of the Gentiles. The densest darkness of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 349
but he gets farther and farther away from it. The transition is continuous from night into clearer day, until at length there is fellowship with Grod, which the world neither knows nor understands, but which to him is highest reality, the source, the ever free-flowing fountain of the strength of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 350
so they said, and their heart still went out after the unknown Infinite. Now another step is taken. Even the appearance of godliness can be laid aside. Atheists have especially among cultivated discovered that classes they are represented by more people than they had dared to surmise. They observ ...
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