Near at Hand

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jun 20, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 24.

TO VERY many who pray, God seems far off. They do not know whether He hears them or not. They do not hear His voice. That is not the way to pray to God. What is the difference between praying to a god that has ears, but hears not, and has eyes, but sees not, and a mouth, but speaks not, and praying to the true God and not knowing whether He sees or hears or speaks? God is not a long way off. He is "not far from every one of us," said the apostle, speaking to heathen men; "for in Him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also His offspring."