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To be near unto God - pagina 481
Ourfathers used to say, that thisoneself in the place of theWordisputtingGod. Notoffrom any saint whatever, from God's Word the standmust be derived which determines geniune childship, and the true gold of our godliness. These censors did no ...
To be near unto God - pagina 482
Whatagainvarietieswhatineachofthesegroupsdifference again in growth, leaf, colorandin fragrance. Does not every more richly developed rose addre^ us as a something by itself,with a charm and beautySuch ...
To be near unto God - pagina 483
A factory manufactures after a fixed model, everything alike; in nature in which God works, everything differs and everything exhibits a something of its own.factory.If now the spiritual life of piety is forced into a selfsame mould, the work of man counteracts the work of God; then ...
To be near unto God - pagina 484
tone-scaleoftheconscience,susceptibilitytoemotions and sensations, education, environment,stamp upon our whole spiritual being. One is after And in this manner, and another after that. connection with this the Holy Spirit divides his spiritual gift ...
To be near unto God - pagina 485
89"ASOUND OF GENTLE STILLNESS.""To be near unto God"is not alike in every as with everything else that touches life intimately, it is with *'one after They this manner, and with another after that." who have drifted away in the stream of methodism, have not realized th ...
To be near unto God - pagina 486
willcome and make our abode with them" (JohnAnd this excludes from God and from being near unto 14:23).the search afterhim, the alwaysIn this sacred domain imitation leads to nothing but selfdeceit. All mysticism of soul, which seeks and finds God, realizes that ...
To be near unto God - pagina 487
and if ever and anywhere, it was on Carmel that Elijah beheld the presence of thestorm,majesty of the Lord.The impossibility of making a rule regarding nearness to God, that shall apply to all cases, extends so far, that a selfsame rule for all of life, even with one and the ...
To be near unto God - pagina 488
luxuriantly. And as with the child, so it is with the lad and the young daughter. In every period of life there is an own form of life of the soul with its own needs. He who understands this pleases and disciplines, supports and strengthens the child, and leads him to God, and so makes gains for ...
To be near unto God - pagina 489
father and mother can suffice for the mixed family, and where either of the two falls away, the task of the remaining one of making due allowance for the difference of nature and disposition of son and daughter is extremely difThis applies as well to man and wife ficult. especially when one has m ...
To be near unto God - pagina 490
Andas in ecclesiastical affairs so it is in the of our own life, in the difference berising superior to one's sins and faintingstruggletweenthe face of too great temptation. All this creates a difference of conditions, of circumstances, of sensations, of experiences of ...
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