This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...majesty and greatness, and yet will never truly come to God or set themselves practically with him, because they have no aspirations. Love in their hearts would be a fixed passion, tending ever toward him. " Whom have I in heaven but thee," is the language of it, and it puts the soul on sacrifice, labor, love, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1910 edition. Excerpt: ...majesty and greatness, and yet will never truly come to God or set themselves practically with him, because they have no aspirations. Love in their hearts would be a fixed passion, tending ever toward him. " Whom have I in heaven but thee," is the language of it, and it puts the soul on sacrifice, labor, love, persistent prayer and faithful striving, that they may come unto him and find his friendship. Every man's love determines what he will be in character. He is as his love, and not otherwise. If he loves the bad, the low, the false, the selfish, his love is the fixed affinity of his soul with what he loves. If he loves what is honorable, right, true, good, God and Christ and heaven, his love will mould his character to its object. Hence it is declared that " every one that loveth is born of God," that the changing of a man's ruling love changes the man, makes him a new man, because the love of God into which he has come must needs be the root of a character in him which is God-like. Love, in short, is not emotion, but motion rather; not some jet of feeling raised by objects and occasions, but the practical drift and current of the man. It is a love which takes one off his own centre and makes him cease from the minding of his own things. The prime example of it is in Christ himself and his life and death of sacrifice. It is such a kind of love as takes on itself as a burden the wrongs and woes and wants and spiritual undoing of others. It puts the subject in a vicarious position, like even to that of Christ himself, to bear other men's burdens, to be willingly afflicted and sacrificed for them, to forgive their wrongs, to cling to them mercifully even in their unrighteous enmities. Call such love as this an emotion, a sentiment! class it with...
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