To be near unto God - pagina 326

means to quicken tenderer love. How much the more is this true of him, who himself is love and who by putting a cloud between us and his Majesty, leads us up to the higher and far enjoyments of love.

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"HIS WAYS ARE EVERLASTING" With the passing of anipther year another boundary-line in life is drawn. A new year is brought into the course of time. It was 1903, it continued for months and weeks and

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and involuntarily we ask Whether the year will outlive us or whether we shall outlive it. This of itself on the threshold of the new year makes us to look up to our Father who is in heaven, and ask little but trust much, to lay the hand on the mouth and as a weaned child quielty to wait what He will bring upon us, and upon days.

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our beloveds.

The goings of the age are his, declares the prophet (Hab. 3:6 Dutch Version.) God counts and reckons with centuries, as on the dial of the clock it is done with hours and minutes. We are the little, needy ones who count with the tenth part of a penny. God bathes himThere is self as it were in the great eternities. no comparison between our and God's reckoning of time. With God it is the ever-flowing fountain of the eternal; with us the dripping of the moments is heard in the ticking of the clock. While waiting for it, five single minutes seem sometimes unbearably long. This vast difference between us and God should 322

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