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Lord, hear me," and obtained the coveted me, answer, and "the fire of the Lord consumed the sacrifice." But the saints of God in the earth have not always been similarly favored. Read the com"0, God, keep plaint of Asaph in Psalm 83: not thou silence; hold not thy peace as one deaf and be not sti ...
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man or woman or the world prays and calls. And when prayer brings no help, and danger is not averted, and no answer is granted, the seemingly futile prayer falls heavily back upon the heart embittered by disthe religiousappointment. The case is altogether different with the deThe saintly m ...
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speak with others whose faces we cannot see, but whose voice we receive in return. So far have we advanced that telegraphy permits communication without vnre or any visible, tangible guidance. And now we understand how this communication can be disturbed, interrupted and sometimes altogether brok ...
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not joined to the Eternal. Pray as we may, God! hold not thythere is no fellowship. self as one deaf; why dost thou not hear me? But religion operates. The loss of Divine fellowship makes us very unhappy. Some sinful inclination of the heart has caused it. Some The heart has secret sin has preven ...
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strengthens and deepens the appreciation of fellowship with God as the temporary want of When for long times the soul has had no it. hearing, and when at length an answer comes from God, there enters into this secret communion a still deeper blessedness, and the soul bathes itself in the fulness ...
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mystical background. For this knowledge of God has more than one significance. He who knows nothing of the Divine Being, attributes and works, can not be said to know the Lord. But neither can he be said to know him, who has not learned to worship him in his Holy Trinity. In connection with this, ...
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This inward state of soul warmly delights itself in the work of Christ's redemption, and glories in the way of salvation and is far better than a kind of Christianity that merely weaves webs for itself out of doctrinal intricacies. But this isnot yet the highest. The old-time worthies were ...
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calm and composed the rest of the body remains in order that the face may speak. For thereby the expression of the countenance be-comes far nobler and muchfiner.Aroughfel-speaks with both hands and feet. A king from his throne speaks with his look and maj ...
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by which we obtain knowledge of his inner existence. It can be imagined in the last instance that all outwardness may fall away and the knowledge of the person still be retained. But it is different with God. Physical means do not come in between him and us. Only as God's Spirit enters into us ca ...
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deeply significant. We can see a person afar off, we can hear from him, we can become conscious that he is near by without having yet gone to him or having yet placed ourselves before him, so that he looks at us and we at him. So there are times in the life of the Christian when he feels impelled ...
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