. Living and loving; selections from the devotional works of Professor A. Tholuck for every day of the month;. and so I was enabled to hold a sacred colloquywith him, and my soul was at peace. In truth, a sick-bed is generally the place where the blessing of theChristian faith becomes specially manifest. While inthe heart of a child of the world sickness breeds ob-stinacy, pride, and discontent, and so eventually, whenit has passed away, leaves no fruit, the contrary happenswith the child of God. In his hours of languishing themysteries of Gods love and the unsearchable depths ofhis wisdom are
. Living and loving; selections from the devotional works of Professor A. Tholuck for every day of the month;. and so I was enabled to hold a sacred colloquywith him, and my soul was at peace. In truth, a sick-bed is generally the place where the blessing of theChristian faith becomes specially manifest. While inthe heart of a child of the world sickness breeds ob-stinacy, pride, and discontent, and so eventually, whenit has passed away, leaves no fruit, the contrary happenswith the child of God. In his hours of languishing themysteries of Gods love and the unsearchable depths ofhis wisdom are properly disclosed. Such a silent sick-room sets a man once more loose from the world and itsattachments, and from all courtship of human favor andhuman praise, and sends him back into life with a newand single eye. Alas! I am conscious to myself how suddenly anddeceitfully self-love can creep back into a heart whichhas been sanctified by faith ; therefore it is that I fer-vently pray, Keep me in safety, O Lord, and let notmy last state be worse than my first. Behold I myselfimplore of thee to humble 24 Gwelftb Da£ ONE WITH CHRIST. )EFORE I had learned the nature of grace,I paused at this saying of the apostle, Ilive, yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; andI asked myself, What strange fancy of theJewish rabbi is this ? Does he really imagine that theMessias, who has been exalted to heaven, is now livingin him ? Yet true it is, that he who ascended up onhigh, and sitteth on the right hand of the Father, didlikewise continue to abide with his followers upon earth,and has become the life of their life. Nor is thismerely as when we say to a friend, I still have thee inmy heart, meaning thereby, in my remembrance ;for, if it were so, how could the Saviour have told hisdisciples, I go away, and come again unto you ? Orhow could he have prayed that they all may be one;as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they alsomay be one in us; that the world may believe that thou
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