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Tell me how I can make my broad acres more broad, is the request of the rich man.
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Tell me how I can make my narrow holding less narrow, is the cry of the poor. But a life in God makes us rich, for
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Blessed are the meek; for they shall inherit the earth.
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There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for My sake and the Gospel's, but he shall receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.
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Have I not infinitely more than a hundredfold, in so entire a possession as Thou my Lord hast taken of me, in that unshaken firmness which Thou givest me in my sufferings, in a perfect tranquillity in the midst of a furious tempest that assails me on every side, in an unspeakable joy, enlargedness, and liberty which I enjoy in a most strait and rigorous captivity?
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And with all our books of theology and treatises on spiritual life, we are almost obliged to say that
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But we believe that for those whom God enlarges, there is an unspeakable increase in the perceptive powers of the soul: they are taught things that no one else knows anything about, and that are hidden from the wise and prudent. There is knowledge for the simple and lowly ones; for those who, in the spiritual strength they have derived from God, run in the way of His commandments. Looking into the Father's face, and into the Saviour's heart, the soul can say,
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This is life eternal, to know Thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom Thou hast sent. And with the knowledge there comes the aspiration that we,
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and to beseech for all souls,
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And again it is said,
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Ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and ye know all things.
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It is not for you