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6S A CLOUD OF WITNESSES.

extracts from this work, that the reader may see how different its teaching is from the Old Theology, and how much more reasonable. Scriptural, and spiritually helpful.

HOW TO THINK OF GOD, " Whenever we would think of God, we should think of Him in the glorified Person of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. This will give definiteness to our ideas of Him. Many think of God as of an infinitely diffused substance without form. Thus the thought of God is dissipated, like the sight of the eye when one looks upon the boundless universe. All this vagueness is removed when we think of God as a Divine Man, infinite in Love, Wisdom and Power, and present by his life-giving effluence in all creatures and all things. The deep desire of every earnest soul is to know God — * Show us the Father and it sufficeth us.' And to the soul so yearning to know God, the Saviour answers, as He answered Philip: * Have I been so long time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me hath seen the Father.' John xiv: 8, 9. The attempt to think of God as He is in the infinite abysses of his own nature, must ever be futile. The mind becomes confused in the effort to soar so far above the necessary limitations of human thought.

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