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To be near unto God - pagina 491
and if ever and am-where, it was on Carmel that Elijah beheld the presence of thestorm,majesty of the Lord.The impossibility of making a rule regarding nearness to God, that shall apply to all cases, extends so far, that a selfsame rule for all of life, even with one and the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 492
And as with the child, so it is with luxuriantly. period the lad and the young daughter. In every soul of life there is an own form of life of the He who understands this with its own needs. and disciplines, supports and strengthens makes the child, and leads him to God, and so While he who alway ...
To be near unto God - pagina 493
I;j'father and mother can suffice for the mixed family, and where either of the two falls away, the task of the remaining one of making due allowance for the difference of nature and disposition of son and daughter is extremely chfficult. This applies as well to man an ...
To be near unto God - pagina 494
is in the as in ecclesiastical affairs so it difference beof our own life, in the and lamting tween rising superior to one's sins All this temptation. great too of face in the of circumstances, creates a difference of conditions, of soul; and woe of sensations, of experiences only one string to h ...
To be near unto God - pagina 495
90"THOU DIDST MAKE ME TRUST WHEN I WAS UPON MY MOTHER'S BREASTS." The secret walk with God is not only different for one child of God than for another, but the difference is inwardly connected with individual disposition, character, nature and temperament. Where there are two persons who l ...
To be near unto God - pagina 496
Augustine, that great spirit, it must needs be so and not otherwise, and for this very reason it never can and never will be so with the humble and the plain. As it was with Augustine or Calvin would not meet their case. But next to this comforting thought, it conIt imposes tains a strong stimulu ...
To be near unto God - pagina 497
Jeremiah and David the Scripture describes this particular character of every- individual's hidden walk with the Eternal Being. Although Psalm 22 bears a strongl}- marked Messianic character, and although this song of the most grievous woe only attains its fullest significance in its application ...
To be near unto God - pagina 498
not hid from thee, when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest part of the earth. Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my memberswere written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet these was none of them." Psalm 139: 13-16). ...
To be near unto God - pagina 499
and thatintheir conceptionandin their birthhumanperson was called into being, as would be able to enter upon such a spiritual condition and to fulfill such a spiritual calling. In whatever way therefore we take it, the three strong declarations of David, ...
To be near unto God - pagina 500
ifthespirituallifeoftheincludingsoul,thewalk with God, leads to this end, the whole appointment regarding the form in which you were to be born, both after soul and body, was of necessity directly connected with what you once will be ...
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