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To be near unto God - pagina 31
invented, communications were carried by letters. All this, however, is changed. By this time it is understood that the throat has no sound of its own, but merely enables us to occasion vibrations And that these vibrations find an in the air. artistic instrument in the listening ear to receive T\ ...
To be near unto God - pagina 32
that there are no distances with God; and that he can speak to us and can hsten to our voice, even though heaven is his throne and we kneel here on earth. ,Yea, even when we whisper our prayer under breath, so that he who stands by our side can not hear it. And faith had no other explanation for ...
To be near unto God - pagina 33
one and the same time among and with all the redeemed of the Lord. But even then it will all be the expression and the working out of the fact of our- creation after the Divine image. It will not be just in the sameway in which God communes with us, but be communion in a similar way. That ...
To be near unto God - pagina 34
must entreat the Lord tolisten again to the voiceof our supplications. "Give heed, to me,whofeels thatGodO Lord," is the cry of him has paid no attention to hisprayer. In the same way when by Isaiah God ''Hearken unto me, my people," it implies say ...
To be near unto God - pagina 35
of our imagination and impart more reality than before to our effort to restore the broken connecAnd thus the finds of science become suption. ports to our piety. They help us to hearken unto God, and our prayer, "0 Lord, give heed to me and hear the voice of my supplication," borrows strength fr ...
To be near unto God - pagina 36
we haveignored, until through bitter experihas been taught us by God. This differis at times strikingly evident. For, as a rule, we do not only fail of seeking instruction in matters of conscience, but resist the same when it is offered, and only consent to it when in the providence of God ...
To be near unto God - pagina 37
ordinarily we call the first part of our knowledge By the that which is acquired by observation. side of this there is another part of knowledge which man would never have acquired of himself, and which God has taught him. This characterEverywhere izes human knowledge in general. and in all ages ...
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higher knowledge of the nobler elements of human hfe? Just as little as a deaf man cares for a "Bach, or a blind man for the works of art by ax^d what apphes to individuals applies to nations. When nations fail of ideals, they degenerate into materialism and sensualism, and shut themselves ...
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nomeansexclusively through the conscience. a far broader scale some of it comes from the Divine counsel, and some from the relation which he establishes between himself and us. are born of our parents and we find many things But the in ourselves that remind us of them. formation of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 40
others. And why? This is a mysteiy which we can not grasp. But the fact remains. We have two kinds of knowledge. Aside from that which is acquired by sight and observation, there is that other and higher knowledge which comes to us from God. This knowledge unfolds most beautifully in thean ...
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