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To be near unto God - pagina 571
sacred myster}-, a restless ascent of our faith, our love and our hope up to the throne of glory. By his ascent up to heaven Jesus has not become farther removed from us, but he has come nearer by. What now vibrates and lives and operates is fellowship between the King of glory and his saints on ...
To be near unto God - pagina 572
and lack of spirituality. But for him, for her, *who believes, the heavens are opened, and from thence pours forth into the darkness of this world and into the darkness of our own heart, a soft, blessed glow of light, love and life. And the soul that is cherished thereby, has already now "walks a ...
To be near unto God - pagina 573
the''Eli,Eli,LamaSabachthani" Jesus quotedPsalm 22 and of itself there could be no plural used whenever the Son of God practiced fellowship with theFather. Jesus as such stood entirely alone, in holy isolation. And though it may not be in that exalted and ...
To be near unto God - pagina 574
and the miseryof lifemay makeitselfknownina particular way to each of us. This, however, does not take away the fact that all sin and misery flows from one common source, that it makes us sharers of a common lot, and that it should move us unitedly to cal ...
To be near unto God - pagina 575
to be daily in spiritual touch with such in one's town, in order to strengthen the faith and in behalf of mutual edification. Only, common fellentlowship with the godly is altogether different from the sense of sharing a common lot *'with all saints." With "the saints" the Scripture does n ...
To be near unto God - pagina 576
continue with you, with those who grow up frrm among the children of the church, and those who are still hidden in the seed of the church, or who are brought into the church from without. No one whom God has included, may we exclude. And that this refers not merely to your salvation, but also to ...
To be near unto God - pagina 577
them, we look for a continuous increase of thebodyof Christ.Then discouragement anddepression give placeand of endless glory. more alone and by itYour self, but thousands have shared it with you, and still other thousands have been far worse conditioned than you ...
To be near unto God - pagina 578
majestic doings of God. Thus your own insigis readily transferred to the Eternal. But when you feel that you are a living member of the whole living body of Christ, that you are one of the multitude that can not be numbered, that you are related to all the saints above, to all God's saints in the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 579
youwill feel yourself in the presence ofhath included you "with same bundle of Hfe.allGod, whosaints" in the self-104'THE GRACE OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, AND THE LOVE OF GOD, AND THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE HOLY GHOST BE WITH YOU ALL." The apostle from w ...
To be near unto God - pagina 580
In this habit of St. Paul of opening and closing his epistles with a benediction one can observe the aftermath of the manner of the East, and on this ground take it merely as a phrase, and merely as a formula of good breeding, which as such has no spiritual significance, at least to us. But is no ...
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