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The fruits of silence; being further studies in the common use of prayer without words, together with kindred essays in worship
Cyril Hepher
Paperback. RareBooksClub.com 2013-09-13.
ISBN 9781130421231
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...in its practice witness that they find in it, the sense of God's Presence, the shining of the Light--Penitence, Power, Fellowship, and Peace. And secondly, because in itself this Silence is a real training, a mental and spiritual athletic, in the art of governing thought, of restraining its discursiveness, and controlling its wandering and restlessness, the prayer of Silence is the author of peace. The sense of the Presence of God puts to flight the discordant thoughts which destroy our peace. The quiet exercise of the will discovers how to substitute for false and unhealthy thinking the thoughts of hope and strength; above all, the immediate direct contact with the light and life of God within the soul, immanent and realized as immanent, suffices for all our need. Silence brings the peace of satisfaction. Our Lord promised peace, but He never promised freedom from adversity. He Himself did not win our peace by immunity from tribulation or pain. Nay, it was beneath the shadow of the Cross in the Upper Room, as He bade them farewell on the eve of His Passion, that He bequeathed His farewell legacy of peace. Already the traitor had sold Him to His foes when He said--My peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you.1 In a letter written from a house of mourning which war, striking its cruellest blow, had robbed both of husband and father, I read these words: "We are indeed in sorrow, but we are not unhappy in our sorrow." Mr. Gladstone's last days of pain were cheered by the constant recurrence to his mind of the words of Dante, "In His will is our peace." This conquest of pain, strife and death is a greater thing, far greater than if death, pain and strife had been impossible. Our Silence is a silence of surrender
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