To be near unto God - pagina 539

Moreover, it must be granted that in our extremely defective condition certain definite and special consecration of a part of our life, of our strength and of our money to religious activities and interests is necessary. You can not serve God all the days of your life in such a way but that the day of rest retains its supreme significance. You can not continue near unto God in every-

thing you do in such a way, but that the particular moments of direct prayer, of worship in the

Word, and

thanksgiving and praise continue Neither can you practice justice and compassion in everything in such a way, but that setting apart of special gifts for the service of God is appreciated by you as a sacred duty. of

to be a need of the heart.

In the Jerusalem above this duality also shall away. The church triumphant in heaven shall not stand in, nor by the side of, the life of glory, but shall be that life itself. But such it is not as yet here. It can not be otherwise but that here this duality continues. The church is something else than the family or the shop. The mighty antithesis between things of this world fall

and things

of the

Kingdom demands

this.

But

may

never allow religion, piety or godliness so to withdraw itself within the sacred domain as to become a churchly life with godliness by the side of a life in the world without godliness. Godthis

may find a more exalted utterance within the sacred domain, and impart strength for daily liness

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