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FROM OUR EXCHANGES
[Bishop Rhinelander, Pennsylvania, in Living Church.]
First think of the blessedness which is promised to the pure in heart, namely, to see God. What does that mean? I think we are too apt to put off the idea of seeing God into the far-off future, as if it meant only a vision that was to come to us after death, in a strange life, full of new powers, where we shall not have to walk any more by faith. That indeed is our hope, because it is Christ's promise, but that hope must have some sort of foundation to rest on. Unless an earthly foundation is laid for it, there will be nothing on which the heavenly superstructure can be built. And Christ is thinking and speaking primarily of this earthly foundation. He means a present vision of God which shall be a preparation for the future. What then would it mean for us all to see God? You know the difference between looking at and seeing things. You know how we can get vague impressions of things without really seeing them at all; how we can be out in the glory of a sunset and be so absorbed in other things as to forget it; how we can witness a great act of sacrifice and not understand it; how we can kneel in prayer and not in the least realize what we are doing. That is looking at things but not seeing them. And so many men and women walk about this world just touching the appearance and not the reality of things. They move about as in a dream, as if they were present at a play.

July 27, 1912 issue
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PERPETUAL PROGRESS
REV. JAMES J. ROME
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HONESTY
CLARKE MC CUE.
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"GRATITUDE."
DAISY BEDFORD.
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TRUTH'S APPEARING
JOHN R. HOOD
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DIFFERENCES RECONCILED
EMMELINE HASKELL
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REPRESSION
KATE WARDWELL BUCK
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"UNFATHOMABLE SEA."
MAURICE KENNEDY
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TRUTH'S SEAMLESS GARMENT
C. W. HASKINS
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I was greatly interested in reading in your esteemed paper...
John L. Rendall
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One of the oldest questions in Christian history is, "What...
Edward W. Dickey
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Permit me to thank you profoundly for your timely...
Arthur E. Jennings
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Will you kindly allow me to say that the Rev.—was...
William J. Bonnin
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OMNIPOTENT, UNCHANGING GOOD
Archibald McLellan
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THE SECOND COMMANDMENT
Annie M. Knott
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"BE OF GOOD CHEER."
John B. Willis
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THE LECTURES
with contributions from Frank M. Ferris, Arthur S. Pierson, R. C. Sheppard, Frank Conklin, Henry Japp, Laurence H. Watres
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ASSURANCE
MINNA MATHISON
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A great many mortals are looking for the truth, although...
Pauline Archibald
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An overwhelming sense of gratitude prompts me to tell...
Ella C. Bailey
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I wish to express my gratitude to God for a wonderful...
E. C. Whiteside
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I have for so many years silently accepted the benefits...
Florence E. Adams
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It gives me great pleasure to testify to the excellent healing...
Mary K. Beck with contributions from David W. Beck
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For years I have been the recipient of many blessings,...
Nellie Dietler
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About the last of August, 1910, I met with an accident,...
John L. Freeman
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More than twenty-two years ago myself and husband became...
Agnes Rodocker with contributions from N. C. Rodocker
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The reading of a testimony in the Sentinel has made me...
Lenora L. Crichton
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My heart is so full of gratitude to divine Love, and also...
Hannah Cole with contributions from Milton Cole
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For fourteen years I have lived in and near Mill Valley,...
Edith M. Pooley
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FROM OUR EXCHANGES
with contributions from Rhinelander, S. G. Barnes, John R. Hunter, M. M. Pattison Muir, J. Herman Randall