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To be near unto God - pagina 67
saints consists in this alone. It surely binds heart to heart when we learn that others hold the same faith as ourselves, that we belong to One church, and that together we break One bread and drink One cup. But in the great journey through life to the courts of everlasting light companionship is ...
To be near unto God - pagina 68
nal and the picture. But not so with a photoBy the operation of light upon the graph. sensitive plate the original here creates his own image and forms the features after those of his own face. And what a person makes in a photograph is an exceedingly weak imitation, which only resembles from afa ...
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professional colleague, a peer in society, one whose lot and experience in life are similar with ours comes nearer to us than he whose settings of life are in every way different from our own. Like alone understands like. The Divine saying, "Let us make man after our image and likeness," implied ...
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to be loved and to be sought. The flame of religion must inwardly gleam through the works of creation, even as in the outward sphere the sun gleams throughout the earth. But this is impossible and can not be thinkable, except as God creates a being after His own image and likeness a being of his ...
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by his Creation. His purpose is not merely to be great, but to be known, to be praised and And, therefore, God creto be loved as such. ated man after his Image and after his Likeness. 13"NONE OF ME." The new paganism, whichisbroadly on theincrease, differs from that ag ...
To be near unto God - pagina 73
has resulted in the fact that they who in other respects are faithful Christians have abandoned far too greatly the personal element in the living God, and in turn dote on the beautiful ideas of mercy and love, of peace and the higher good. But personal communion with the personal God is no longe ...
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The modern pagan movement, on the other is driven by an entirely impersonal object. It has no thought of setting up idolatroushand,images. It scorns idolatry proper which is still perpetuated in India, China and Japan. But it is negatively impelled by the denial of a living, persona ...
To be near unto God - pagina 74
St. Thomas puts his hand on the wound-print in Jesus* side, sinks to his knees and exclaims: "My Lord and my God," all the power of personal worship of God in Christ reveals itself. And by this alone the church of Christ has be-come whatit is.also lost to us. First, this powe ...
To be near unto God - pagina 76
apostacy on the part of the world of spirits which diverts the heart from the living God. But this must be resisted. The struggle must be begun against our own heart first, that it may be restored to personal communion with the living God. This struggle must be extended across the entire range of ...
To be near unto God - pagina 75
stint, but they hold themselves aloof from every personal touch. No trace of affection for us can be discovered in their heart. No sympathy for us can be observed in anything they do. They show no desire to have personal knowledge of The reason for this, no doubt, in many us. cases, is to be foun ...
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