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To be near unto God - pagina 251
difiference is, that among women, even with children, the personal, baptismal name is used, and almost never the family name, while among men as a rule the family name is in vogue, and the use of the personal name indicates a far higher degree of intimacy. While at length in family life every mor ...
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word God indicates a highly-exalted Being, that far transcends mankind. But by itself it has no meaning. It is exclusive and reveals nothing. It It does not indicate a single relationship. only becomes significant and vital, when we put the word my before it. and speak of ''my God", or of the "Co ...
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is no hollow sound, but an expression of the Being of God; even of that in him which we need for our comfort in the midst of these changEverything about us comes ing scenes of life. and goes. We ourselves change continuously with every changing thing around us. Scarcely has spring given way to su ...
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acknowledges that he shouldlive for God, because his Lord, so that he exists solely and alone for the sake of God. In this revelation of the Name, the love ofGodisGodthat sought us and drew us, has further progress. Israel was taught tomade knowsti ...
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tenderness, which no longer hides anything. More yet, the Father-name includes the name of the With the Abba Father comes the surprischild. ing discover>^ that one is himself a child of God, and with it is disclosed the nobility of our race, the royal exaltation above everything that surrounds ...
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This is salvation. Wherefore he who takes the confession of the Trinity as a mere doctrinal question, does not fathom by far what this revelation of Father, Son and Holy Ghost implies. Only the Triune God is the wealth and the delight of the soul. 48"WHO DWELLETH ON HIGH AND BEHOLDETH THE ...
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dressing the Highest Being. It betrays the tendency to show how intimately the man who prays holds converse with his God. And while this is done at the expense of reverence towards God, itleads to sin.Both whatisexalted and whatisordinary havevery ...
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out far and high above our earthly, human hfe. Nature gives us an impression of it in the firmament that arches high above us, in the sky that hastens upwards, and in the mighty thunder that rolls through the dark hosts of clouds. In a heavy thunder-storm, in the hurricane that rages upon the gre ...
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poor are frequently treated with far more consideration by those of assured position, than by those of lower social standing. When a subject approaches his king, as a rule he is surprised by the kind treatment which he receives. And since the Lord God is highly exalted above every one of us, it i ...
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down to us. soul to him.The secondis, that we lift up our with the first. The second follows. In Paradise after the fall God comes down, to Adam, and this condescension on the part of God goes on thoughout all Revelation. This coming down is made perfect in the manger of Bethlehem i ...
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