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To be near unto God - pagina 455
Thus humanity is divided. There is the unregenerated world, with which the separation continues, and which has no more temple on Zion. And there are the people of the Lord, who are no longer carnal, but live their Hves in the spirit. Among this people, in this Church of the Lord, all separation h ...
To be near unto God - pagina 456
him, are derived from the Holy Ghost,is absurd. general has ever excelled, no poet has ever sung, no scholar has ever reaped the admiration of the world, no artist has ever enriched life with his creations, but it was the Holy Spirit, who caused the spark of genius to glow in him. Such and ...
To be near unto God - pagina 459
With God, itdoesmean, what becoming speak of it most fre-of course, this does notwithus,when we speakaccustomed to one.Weofquently when we first come in touch with some one who acts strangely, a man of strong peculiarities, who ...
To be near unto God - pagina 458
.that while on one side he still sinks away in misery, yet under it all and with it all he remains conscious of the blessed presence- of the HolyGhost. That the Holy Spirit does not go away, that he does not allow himself to be sent away, that he does not give us up, but continues t ...
To be near unto God - pagina 460
in our sensations and feelings, and that astray in the deliberations of our hearts. were what we ought to be, there wouldwe Ifarewebe nofrom God, and no need of the exhortation to accustom ourselves again to God. Hence the saying: "Accustom now thyself to him," ...
To be near unto God - pagina 457
regenerating us he has enabled us to obtain personal fellowship with him; that he did not wait till we had found him, but that he made the approach to us and touched us not from without, but from within, and that in the deepest secrecy of the life of the soul he established the tie which made us ...
To be near unto God - pagina 461
the Bible interpretation of life was counted valid in science, in public opinion, and therefore in education, and in the better forms of social intercourse. He who in those better days believed, was carried by the general tenor of life, and there was no occasion for offense, not even among But al ...
To be near unto God - pagina 462
gage yourself from the tie that binds you to the wisdom of the world, and with all your mind and heart enter again into the plan and most holy thoughts of God.Do not take this in a philosophical sense. Interpret it practically in behalf of life. Especially with regard to the mystery of su£ ...
To be near unto God - pagina 463
God who allows it; but we can submit to this. But that God himself inflicts this in sickness, and by means of cruel death, is and remains at this viewpoint a stumbling block which one can not get over, and which has killed much rootless faith. What accounts for this, save that God's thoughts are ...
To be near unto God - pagina 464
suffering to the world. If he elected godless people only for this purpose, they would hardenthemselves against suffering, and the godly would pride themselves on being spared. The medicine would do no good. It would bring spiritual petrifaction. It would bring loss for gain.No, to ...
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