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The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah Vol 1 - Predestination

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general reader is here at a double disadvantage.<br />

From his upbringing in an atmosphere which<br />

Christ's Words have £Qled with heaven's music,<br />

he knows not, <strong>and</strong> cannot knoW| <strong>the</strong> nameless<br />

feeling which steals over a receptive soul when, in<br />

<strong>the</strong> silence <strong>of</strong> our moral wilderness, those voices<br />

first break on <strong>the</strong> ear) that had never b^re been<br />

wakened to <strong>the</strong>m. How <strong>the</strong>y , hold <strong>the</strong> soul<br />

entranced, calling up echoes <strong>of</strong> inmost yet<br />

unrealised aspiration, itself <strong>the</strong> outcome <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />

God-bom <strong>and</strong> God-tending within US| Bixd which<br />

renders us capable <strong>of</strong> new birth into <strong>the</strong> Kingdom;<br />

call up, also^ visions <strong>and</strong> longings <strong>of</strong> that world <strong>of</strong><br />

heavenly song, so far away <strong>and</strong> yet so near us; <strong>and</strong><br />

fill <strong>the</strong> soul with subduednesSi expectancy^ <strong>and</strong><br />

ecstasy t So <strong>the</strong> travel-stained w<strong>and</strong>erer flings him<br />

do?m on <strong>the</strong> nearest h^ht, to feast his eyes with <strong>the</strong><br />

first sight <strong>of</strong> home in <strong>the</strong> still valley beneath ; so<br />

<strong>the</strong> fieuv<strong>of</strong>f exile sees in his dreams visions <strong>of</strong> his<br />

child-life, all tmnsfigured; so <strong>the</strong> weary prodigal<br />

leans his head in silent musing <strong>of</strong> mingled longing<br />

<strong>and</strong> rest on a mo<strong>the</strong>r's knee. So, <strong>and</strong> much more;<br />

fbr, it is <strong>the</strong> Voice <strong>of</strong> God Which speaks to us in

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