Bible Review V15: October 1916 - March 1918 - Iapsop.com

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when he
attempts to return to his former condition of
peace and contemplation of the eternal, he will _discover
that he has lost his hold upon it, that he has lost that
peace and happiness, that the light and buoyancy have
departed, and that a dark veil has been drawn over his
consciousness, which the most diligent effort can alone
remove.
It has been frequently said that no one can live up to
the requirements of the Sermon on the Mount; Jesus
made a statement equivalent to this when he said: "No
man can
serve two masters: for either he will hate the
one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one,
and despise the other." And so this high attainment of
conscious unity with God, Godlikeness, demands all your
thought, effort, and desire. Every consideration of an
earthly nature must be secondary, as again it is said,
"Love not the world, neither the things that are in the
world. If any man love the world, the love of the
Father is not in him." (1. John ii. 15.) There are but
two principles in this connection recognized in the
Heavens: love, a form of desire, which draws to itself
the thing loved,-which is attractive in
its operation;
and hate," the antithesis of desire, repellent in its nature.
Therefore, if we love the world, we unavoidably repel
the Spirit of God; if we love God, we will involuntarily
repel the things of the world.
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"No man has ever lived a right life who has not been
chastened by a. woman's love,
strengthened by her courage,
and guided by her discretion."-RUSKIN.