S U N D A Y   S N I P P E T S (tm) # 1 1 2               2 Nov '97

                        Seeking God, Finding Christ
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The most perfect way of seeking God, and the most suitable order, is not
for us to attempt with bold curiosity to penetrate to the investigation of
His essence, which we ought more to adore than meticulously to search out,
but for us to contemplate Him in His works, whereby He renders Himself
near and familiar to us, and in some manner communicates Himself. 

                                        - John Calvin (d. 1564)


Only when a man tries to live the divine life can the divine Christ
manifest Himself to him.  Therefore, the true way for you to find Christ
is not to go groping in a thousand books.  It is not for you to try
evidences about a thousand things that people have believed of Him, but it
is for you to undertake so great a life, so devoted a life, so pure a
life, so serviceable a life, that you cannot do it except by Christ, and
then see whether Christ helps you.  See then whether there comes to you
the certainty that you are a child of God, and the manifestation of the
child of God becomes the most credible, the most certain thing to you in
all of history.
                  - from `The Law of Growth' by Phillips Brooks (d.1893)

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