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truth. He who has no sense of ideals may seek material knowledge, but the knowledge of higher things in human life leaves him cold and inA money-wolf is an adept in the different. knowledge that promises gain, but what does he care for the higher knowledge of the nobler elements of human life? Ju ...
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Byseeing and observing, a part of our knowledge is in our own power. But the part of higher and nobler knowledge God alone canimpart.As we apply this to ourselves we see at once that this Divinely-imparted knowledge comes by no means exclusively through the conscience. Upon a ...
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deeper interests in the higher things of life and makes us grow and expand in them with continual refreshings. And if this is so, it is who have raised ourselves up to God, but it is God who has raised us up to heavenly This mercy may have places with himself. been shown to us and not to some oth ...
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ever larger knowledge of selves.Andhim andthis, their thirst,ofthem-can only expressmyGod, aside from what the prayer: O see and discover myself, teach Thou me. Instruct me ever more in holy fellowship withitself in IThee. 8 ...
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exhaustion of strength? He, after whose Image we are created, never wearies. The heavenly hosts of angels do not sleep. Of the new Jerusalem we read: "There shall be no more night." We can imagine a being, who does not exhaust his strength and therefore needs no sleep. Why God appointed life for ...
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most dreams are forgotten on waking. And at rare times they leave a memory, nothing but vague, vanishing and mixed images float before the mind. Even the petition from thewhenold evening song, "In sleeping let me wait on Thee; in dreams be Thou my joy," does not de-termine, s ...
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which leads either to sin or to glory. depends upon the manner in which these sleepless hours are spent. If wakefulness leads to nothing but gloomy and peevish complaint by day and to a rebellious turning over of self on the bed by night, it works sin. But when such sleepless hours are spent in t ...
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The midnight watch has something of Sabbath stillness about it, which is inaugurated by the evening reading of God's Word, and by the evening prayer, when on bended knees the soul was poured out before God. At length we areAnd nowthe cares and anxieties of either be resolutely put a ...
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Atwenight, on our beds,when we cannot sleep, Much more so, in-feel our helplessness.deed, than when by day garments adorn our person, when our word makes our Influence a power and when we labor to make or maintain our position in life. We lie prostrate on our be ...
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a response and it did not come, how often has it turned courage into dismay. To get no hearing! What restlessness it brings when fear is harbored whether it is well with child, or brother far off, and one writes and writes again, and no reply follows, and a telegram is sent with prepayment for an ...
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