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To be near unto God - pagina 11
undervalue better works from other hands. This evident in mother-joy, which revels in play with its own child, such as is impossible in play with Self-delusion and selfishness a neighbor's child. may at times be too evident in this joy of the mother heart, but history and folklore in all lands an ...
To be near unto God - pagina 12
can allow her just anger with the child of her to work itself out to the end, just so little can God's wrath with a soul fully exhaust itself, because He has made it. As a Father pitiethown bosomhis children, so the Lord pitieth them that fear (Ps. 103). "Though a mother may forget ...
To be near unto God - pagina 13
soul that has gone astray, because He has made it. The beautiful parables of the lost penny, the lost sheep and the lost son sprang in the mind of Christ from the thought that God can not let go the works of his hands. Therefore He does not leave the souls of sinners indifferently as prey to corr ...
To be near unto God - pagina 14
thought that, if we believe, God's anger with the ~ soul which He has made will not continue to the end. And, on the other hand, it implies the help' ful warning that we should not poison the soul bycontinuance in sin, but that we should favor it,and spareit, and shield it from corr ...
To be near unto God - pagina 15
the common necessities of life are more The large part which easily procured than here. money plays in life is too generally ignored. Aside from wealth and love of simplicity., life unfolds differently when there is a free hand financially than when hard work for sheer sustenance of self and fami ...
To be near unto God - pagina 16
mov^ed with compassion for this 'gilded slavery he called the people that flocked to hear him, from money back to God. This sharp antithesis alone should inspire us to resist the tyranny of money. When we are truly servants of God, money will be a servant to us. When, on the other hand, we seek p ...
To be near unto God - pagina 17
youare forgottenby those who once knew you. Inthis utter forsakeness of soul ask yourself: What have I left? What do I now possess? This willbe our state in the hour of death.Wewill go into eternity alone. What will we take with us? must leave money and h ...
To be near unto God - pagina 18
will-power can be of use to us only when we can apply them to good and noble ends. Satan is the 'most strongly developed personality conceivable. Any one can train himself in sin. Hence the question remains: Have we developed the traits ofand powersof personality, which are in of et ...
To be near unto God - pagina 19
being rich in God, that the more we become detached from the world, the richer we become And when at last the world shall fade from in God. sight, the far more exceeding and eternal weight of these riches will unfold itself to our eyes. For this heavenly wealth will not waste, but ever increase i ...
To be near unto God - pagina 20
times for the things that wean the soul from and must needs impoverish it."INGodTHE COVERT OF THY WINGS."The profoundest question that governs true piety relates to personal fellowship with God. In the Psalms, which are the most beautiful utterances of a devout mind, t ...
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