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To be near unto God - pagina 441
what the Psalmist suggests, when he sings: "The Lord is thy shade upon thy right hand."this isAndthus the Divine tenderness of highest love mingles itself in the comforting. God leaves you not alone. The journey through the wilderness can not be spared you. The heat must burn ...
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has a weak voice, or when the distance is too great that separates him from us. The first is impossible with God. How should he, who has planted the ear, not hear; how should he who has created sound, and the hearing of it, not hear all listencreaturely sound? Hence, when it is said of God ...
To be near unto God - pagina 443
thousand millions of living souls? There are a few mighty ones who feel, and must feel, that they are great in the world. Think of a Napoleon, or But, there is nothing of this in of a Bismarck. the ordinary man who prays, whose name is scarcely known outside of his village or town. The mighty one ...
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prayer must be breathed from the soul. The voice here avails nothing. We can compel a hearing with men by speaking more loudly and boldly;but when we would speak to ''our Father in heaven" the voice loses absolutely all significance. Then the stentorian voice of the orator has no advantage ...
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strongly in prayer with others. Then the voice is the instrument which brings the prayer of him who prays to the soul of those who pray with him. He who leads in prayer must be like him that plays the keys of the organ. His soul plays. The soul of the others must sound with his. And thus there is ...
To be near unto God - pagina 446
mysticism. At first we face the distance. First the soul must Hft itself to higher things. Not here below but above is the altar of the prayers of the saints, which burns with incense before his face. No more here below, but in heaven our Savior is seated at the right hand of God, and prays for u ...
To be near unto God - pagina 447
human way, to know, to perceive, to that we, too, come to our turn, and that for us also there comes a moment of hearing that is what he who prays means, when he gives jubilant thanks, that God has also inclined the ear to his prayer. Of course, this is not so with God. He does nothing in turn. H ...
To be near unto God - pagina 448
82"TAKE NOT THY HOLY SPIRITFROMThe HolyME."Scripture speaks of a seeking of God's"Blessed is the people that know the joyface. ful sound: they shall walk, Lord, in the light of thy countenance" (Ps. 89:15). But the Scripture speaks also of something more ...
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pronounces blessed. Then of itself and unconsciously the second round is reached, the entering upon the secret walk with God. Not that the light of God's countenance shines on us all, but in this way, that the soul has become a mirror, light is reflected. That God and that the soul shines out tow ...
To be near unto God - pagina 450
no words for it. Our conception here fails of all analysis. can believe, we can undergo sensations, we can enjoy, but here on earth, at least, and in our state of sin the deep mystery of the Triune Being of God can not be unveiled to us. v/orship Almighty God as our Father who is in heaven. worsh ...
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