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To be near unto God - pagina 511
exceedinglydifficultart,or ratheritisa sacredwhich demands the utmost clearness, urgency and readiness of soul. But to pray well must never become art, or else it ceases to be prayer. The disciples realized this, and when they had witnessed once ag ...
To be near unto God - pagina 512
plural: Our Father, our daily bread, our trespasses. In all ages, in all her forms, the Church of Christ has been true to the Our Father. And in our liturgy our fathers also have not only adopted fixed prayers for public worship, but have always ordered the use of ''Our Father" in the congregatio ...
To be near unto God - pagina 513
than for 3'ou, when in pra^'er they come a little nearer unto God, and may perceive something of his holy presence. How much higher did not the apostles of Jesus stand than we, and yet for them Jesus deemed a memorized prayer so little aimless or superfluous, that he himself gave them one. It is ...
To be near unto God - pagina 514
andthat, if prayer is to be maintained, if it shall continue to be a power in the whole church, in every home, for every member of that home, for great and small alike, both must be practiced; as well the prayer from one's own soul, as the written prayer which all can pray, because all hav ...
To be near unto God - pagina 515
not only enables us to pray, but to pray in such sacred terms as to carrj' the soul with them? A twofold cause here operates. First, language. Prayer and praise have a language of their own. This language does not rise of itself from every soul. There have been those who were specially gifted w^i ...
To be near unto God - pagina 516
power of the world that aims at keeping us far distant from God. The benediction also at the close of public worship might easily be composed by each preacher for himself. That this is not the case, that in the benediction at least a fixed form has been maintained, is a gain to be thankfully ackn ...
To be near unto God - pagina 517
our consciousness fails us, the nearness of God continues to support the soul, which he has calledunto himself.But however closely these two are allied, they must always be carefully distinguished. Whether God is near unto us, and whether we are near unto God, is not the same. And i ...
To be near unto God - pagina 518
tion: Thy will be done on earth among us as in heaven among thy angels. Here the reference to heaven is immediate. Here both the similarity and the difference of life on earth and life in heaven is simultaneously shown. Here Jesus urges us that in prayer, and in seeking the nearness of God, we sh ...
To be near unto God - pagina 519
Patmosit was the same. There, too, the seer's beheld the holy One, and also the Cherubim who reveal God's majesty, and what is more, from ''the elders," i. e. from the circles of the "Thou, Lord, blest, he heard the hymn of praise:e\-eworthy to receive glory and honor and pow ...
To be near unto God - pagina 520
to introduce intermediarj^ persons between our soul and God, to whom to look for help rather than to God. It is plain, therefore, that for the sake of correcting this abuse, safety was sought in sobriety, and that with holy enthusiasm it was undertaken not to allow. oneself to be drawm away in hi ...
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