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To be near unto God - pagina 395
had tried to provide it, but in vain, until at length God brought it. He imparted it, not in the form of a gift, but in a most holy person; who was not one taken from among uSj but one who came down from heaven and not as an angel, which as God's servant and our helper stands outside of both Divi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 398
spiritually seeing the son with the eyes soul, the child of God knows himself toofthebe onewith the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Hear the petition in the high priestly prayer: ''Holy Father, I pray thee, that they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and ...
To be near unto God - pagina 396
the soul can ever create faith in Christ, produce imprint and implant it. The seed of faith is a Divine sowing. Faith in Jesus is as much a gift as Christ himself is. Faith is a work of Divine compassion, wrought by the Holy Ghost. But all faith in Christ has this peculiarity and necessity, that ...
To be near unto God - pagina 397
soul, itwhich maintains the glow of faith and makesto burn brightly. The entire contentreduced from theofthememorymemory must beto the unityof theimage of the Son of God. It must all be united and brought together, in order to ...
To be near unto God - pagina 400
whenbecomes the expression of that assurwhich with spiritual elasticity, knows how to overcome every difficulty of life on earth, and now proclaims with Habakkuk (3:17): "Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; and there shall be no itance of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 399
a mountainous country. The Psalmists have dwelt and wandered in the mountains. Of itself, theretheir fertile minds would borrow images in the mountains by which to express the antitheses of life. And so the easj^ walk, with a light step, on a smooth, straight and even road suggested of itself to ...
To be near unto God - pagina 401
ority and of being a privileged character, until there comes a turn in life, and the sun goes hiding behind the clouds. Then everything collapses at once. Then there is no power of resistance. Then there is no disciplined strength. Then there is nothing to hold him up and to enable him to cope wi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 402
But there have always been others who have persevered, who would not give up, who did not abandon hope, and who by great pov/er of will reached the point, where they could breathe again, and opposition seemed broken. And thanks to the practice acquired in the struggle, they put forth a. final, gi ...
To be near unto God - pagina 403
panies us to the grave, and the cross casts its shadow across our path to the end. For this is the glory of faith, that it discloses another, a better way to us, a way on the heights of the mountain of God's holiness, which excels the ways of our earthly life, and dissolves all our sorrow, misery ...
To be near unto God - pagina 404
to life in Paradise, and when sin came in, Paradise was gone, and the curse overtook our earthly existence. Not as though deadly monotony prevailed in Paradise, or that in heaven the absence of all change about God's throne would occasion a somber pall to darken the life of the blessed. Without e ...
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