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To be near unto God - pagina 461
the Bible interpretation of life was counted valid in science, in public opinion, and therefore in education, and in the better forms of social intercourse. He who in those better days believed, was carried by the general tenor of life, and there was no occasion for offense, not even among But al ...
To be near unto God - pagina 462
gage yourself from the tie that binds you to the wisdom of the world, and with all your mind and heart enter again into the plan and most holy thoughts of God.Do not take this in a philosophical sense. Interpret it practically in behalf of life. Especially with regard to the mystery of su£ ...
To be near unto God - pagina 463
God who allows it; but we can submit to this. But that God himself inflicts this in sickness, and by means of cruel death, is and remains at this viewpoint a stumbling block which one can not get over, and which has killed much rootless faith. What accounts for this, save that God's thoughts are ...
To be near unto God - pagina 464
suffering to the world. If he elected godless people only for this purpose, they would hardenthemselves against suffering, and the godly would pride themselves on being spared. The medicine would do no good. It would bring spiritual petrifaction. It would bring loss for gain.No, to ...
To be near unto God - pagina 465
86'•THE SPIRITOFMANISA CANDLE OFTHE LORD." Tobe near untoGoda luxury of soul which also in unconsciousness. When a child of God that enjoyed the secret walk is put under an anesthetic for the sake of an operation, it does not break fe ...
To be near unto God - pagina 466
and during sleep it maintains itself and acts. The knowledge of this impar;:s rest, as one undergoes an anaesthetic, and no less that peaceful feeling with which at night we lose ourselves in sleep. "Let me sleeping wait for thee; Lord, then sleep And I peacefully," as it was sung in Hernhutt. wh ...
To be near unto God - pagina 467
And though, when the thrilling of the feeling. the child shall have become a youth and a young man, this fellowship will express itself in words and in ideas, the root of this communion, even in later years, will reach deeper than the lips that speak the word. What does not the look of the eye co ...
To be near unto God - pagina 468
by contrasting by speaking of Proverbs 20:27, by contrast-plastically in several ways, mostly the heart and the reins, and alsothe bowels, or as in ing the soul with "the innermost chambers of the belly." Translating this into our language, "the soul of man" here means our conscious ...
To be near unto God - pagina 469
into pitch darkness,andof our innermost being,inthisblack darkness us with theGod meetscandle of our consciousness.Of course, our consciousness is no candle, which the Lord uses to search us. God has no need of the light of the sun by which ...
To be near unto God - pagina 470
izedworld" for the most part God's candle in us.isblind tothelight ofThe light of this candle of the Lord in us does not argue, and does not analyze, but shows what there is in us, lays bare our own being before the eye of the soul, gives us self-knowledg ...
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