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To be near unto God - pagina 61
when wrong has been done and the conscience has been aroused, solitude is oppressive and diversion is sought in company. In a some-whatless strikingwaylove or dislike of soli-tude shows itself in the difference between meditative or more active dispositions. One ...
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index of its greatness. An only child is more precious to its parents than one of seven on which others may pride themselves. When this only child dies, the family passes out of existence, and the line of succession is cut off. The soul exists independently of property and of the body. However mu ...
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sympathize, so that even when we are alone the feelings of others, and at long distances of separation rejoice with those who do rejoice, and weep with those who weep. We have received the gift of speech whereby the soul can express itself and the soul of another can speak in our ear. Speech has ...
To be near unto God - pagina 64
wingsin spheres of happiness and these are withheld, when hatred repels, and slander persecutes, instead of love that attracts and sympathy that refreshes, shy and shivering the soul draws back within itself. It can not unburden itself. It can not tell what And shut up within itself it pin ...
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wretched and distressed of soul and who pine away in inner solitariness. On the other hand the merry-making multitudes who are always hurried, who are continually engaged with the art of externalizing themselves and never have a thought about their own solitary soul. The only medicine at hand for ...
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the period in the Christian life of "milk for babes" to that of "strong meat for adults." We understand therefore that calling upon God and walking in the ways of his laws do not by themselves constitute true religion and godliness, and that the secret of salvation is unveiled in all its fullness ...
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saints consists in this alone. It surely binds heart to heart when we learn that others hold the same faith as ourselves, that we belong to One church, and that together we break One bread and drink One cup. But in the great journey through life to the courts of everlasting light companionship is ...
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nal and the picture. But not so with a photoBy the operation of light upon the graph. sensitive plate the original here creates his own image and forms the features after those of his own face. And what a person makes in a photograph is an exceedingly weak imitation, which only resembles from afa ...
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professional colleague, a peer in society, one whose lot and experience in life are similar with ours comes nearer to us than he whose settings of life are in every way different from our own. Like alone understands like. The Divine saying, "Let us make man after our image and likeness," implied ...
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to be loved and to be sought. The flame of religion must inwardly gleam through the works of creation, even as in the outward sphere the sun gleams throughout the earth. But this is impossible and can not be thinkable, except as God creates a being after His own image and likeness a being of his ...
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