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To be near unto God - pagina 371
are inclined to accept the sacred mysteries, provided they but discover that sacred power goes out from you. When they see no such power; and perceive that fruit remains wanting; that there is no higher seriousness of life; when they hear on the contrary, of hypocrites who behind fair exteriors p ...
To be near unto God - pagina 372
last drop of saliva is dried up, and the swollen throat with difficulty allows the breath to pass through. With such a thirst it becomes a serious, and ever more anxious longing for moisture, and passionate craving for water; and he alone who so understands it, fathoms the depth of the longing af ...
To be near unto God - pagina 373
known an3rthmg about it. How great then grace that has been shown to usistheIProphets and Psalmists, Jesus and apostles lived mountainous country. This accounts for the frequent references in Scripture to water andin a"With Thee is the fountain of life." ...
To be near unto God - pagina 374
cast broad shadows, and so afford the traveler protection from the heat of the sun. Thus it is in the valley in the midst of the mountains, and metaphorically for God's child in the midst of troubles. When, languishing and hardpressed he can do nothing more, God is a fountain to him, and it is Go ...
To be near unto God - pagina 375
such a place the Psalm is sung, that God is the fountain of life, everyone understands it, the delightful imagery appeals to them all, and the pregnant thought enters into every soul, that without God we would perish in our miseries from thirst, and that God alone is the center, in whom all they ...
To be near unto God - pagina 376
distances and separations in society and churches hold us apart; but spiritually and unseen, all that are born of God, gather together day by day at And it is the one this One Fountain of life. Christ who from his abundance quenches the thirst of all. And from being really one in Christ, and from ...
To be near unto God - pagina 377
All Paradise was with them. It was altoAt one point gether pleasure without burden. only they were in danger. That was their spiritual estate. In this they were vulnerable. If the soul fell down they were gone; unless God saved them, risks.they were gone forever. The curse, which came upon ...
To be near unto God - pagina 378
of heroes who of destruction. mon strength.knew how to Most people Weaklingsrestrain themonsterlive upon their comlive beneath themselves.But there have always been a few, who have excelled themselves. And later generations have honored these heroes as men, who ...
To be near unto God - pagina 379
leaped. And thus came about deliverance of the people. And thus the names of these heroes are held in lasting honor. Not by our race as a whole, but by the people whose deliverance they havewrought.Meanwhile a third struggle had begun. Not against nature, and not against the lust of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 380
in sickness and in threatening destruction; the struggle for existence and a living. The struggle against our fellowmen, when they do us wrong, slander us and threaten our rights and liberties. And thirdly the struggle against the powers of Satan, sin and the world, in behalf of God's glory, the ...
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