Untitled - Rore Sanctifica

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will perhaps not sensibly approach, until it is.
If it were man s work, one might look out for
negotiation?, confere: the exj B n of the
minds of the influential, the c - sh n or in-
: powerful religious bodi. AVe
might be discouraged by censures, disheartened
mistake- - kened by the supercilious tone
of some in high station, t rebuffs.
But since the work, if wrought at all, must be
the work of GOP. then all these human diffi
culties are but the mountains which have to be
levelled as His pathway, the
which have to be made stir,
g
crooked pl:i
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Absence I
e and prayer and holiness are alone the real
hindrances to Re-union. Before love and
all human obstacles are but as the
prayer
barrier which hems in the accumulating weight
of waters : when their full weight is gathered,
the barrier will cjive wav or be surmounted.
Hindrances, then, or difficulties,
. nay
or miscon-
? one may say, indispositions, are
but ordinary thin.. Opposition
is so much
encouragement. For misconceptions, when re
moved, wonderfully clear the sight, which they
before impeded. The eye sees at once, when
the cataract has been taken away. Opposition
evinces men s sense of the inherent strength of
^j
that which it opposes ; indisposition, which,
from its dull
sluggishness, is the weariest,
most immoveable is
drag, but one of the
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