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Every gift of God brings with it responsibility on our part in the use that we make of it. The supreme gift of intelligence and free-will are powers to enable us to love and serve God, but we are able to use them to dishonour and outrage Him. So with all the other faculties that flow from these two great gifts. Beading and books have brought many souls nearer to their Creator.
Caroline was afraid to compromise the freshness of her dress and the purity of her thread stockings. "If I am at church when Adolphe comes, I shall lose the pleasure of his first glance: and he will think I prefer high mass to him." She made this sacrifice to her husband in a desire to please him a fearfully worldly consideration. Prefer the creature to the Creator! A husband to heaven!
Indeed, if either the Bible or the book of nature contained nothing beyond what we could easily comprehend, would it not diminish our reverence and awe for the One behind them, Whom we now regard as infinite in power and in wisdom? True, the natural human heart cannot bear this thought of the direct acting throughout nature of the infinite Creator.
Therefore put all things else away, and give thyself to the Creator, to be well pleasing and faithful to Him, that thou mayest be able to attain true blessedness. Psalm lxxxv. 8. What the truth saith inwardly without noise of words Speak Lord, for thy servant heareth. I am Thy servant; O give me understanding that I may know Thy testimonies. Incline my heart unto the words of Thy mouth.
The line of distinction between what is perfect and what is slightly strained is a fine one. Very often, for example, one hears such endings as "or" in "creator," "ed" in "dedicated," "ess" in "readiness," "men" in "gentlemen," pronounced with incorrect prominence.
In this now universally employed invocation, Jesus claimed for himself no other mention than that in which he instructed all of earth's children to join. "Hallowed be thy name." In a sacred name there is power to hold the wavering thought; so may thy name be hallowed! i. e., held sacred. It is affirmed that every created thing has a real appellation, a name given to it by its Creator.
Why, the free and enlightened citizens will not even permit their black or coloured brethren to worship their common Creator in the same pew with themselves it is horror, it is degradation! And yet there is a universal outcry about sacred liberty and equality all over the Union. The angels weep to witness the tricks of men placed in a little brief authority.
And then she changed her tone; and in a voice of infinite tenderness she spoke of Him as the Creator, the Word, the Inspirer, the only perfect Artist, the Fountain of all Genius. She made me feel would that His ministers had made me feel it before, since they say that they believe it that He had passed victorious through my vilest temptations, that He sympathized with my every struggle.
Who is there higher than Siva? The wise say that the Grandsire Brahma is the creator of this universe. Brahma, however, acquired his high puissance and prosperity by adoring and gratifying Mahadeva, that God of gods. Tell me who is there that is superior to the Supreme Lord?
The human being who could stand unmoved before the great cataract, and feel no quickening of the pulse, no silent adoration of the heart towards the Creator of this wondrous scene, would remain as indifferent and as uninspired before the throne of God!
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