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The Nearness of God

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Publishing Committee · Battle Creek, Mich. · Aug 21, 1860

FromReview and Herald, Vol. 16, No. 14.

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The Nearness of God

How inconsistent are some men's conceptions of the divine Being with the religion in which they profess to believe! Their God is always riding on the stars, or is behind them, or is directing some physical or moral law. He is wonderful in power, but is always afar off. The God of most men, whether they are skeptical, neutralists, or ecclesiastical religionists, is afar off. And only them do I count to be true Christians whose God is always near; for the promise of Christ was, that he and his Father would come to his disciples and abide with them.