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"Hide not thy face far from me." - Psalms 27:9.

There are those who never need to use these words, because they have no experience of that which is deprecated. They know not what is meant by such language as this: " Cause thy face to shine upon me." This language implies a personal acquaintance with a personal God. It teaches that God is pleased to make communications of his grace to the soul of the believer, that are to him like the uplifting of a veil from the face of the one beloved and adored. We ought all of us to have far higher conceptions than we have, of the power of God to manifest himself by the agency of the Holy Spirit. It is not to be questioned that in this dispensation we are able to have more glorious and surprising revelations of the Deity than were enjoyed under the previous dispensation. Isaiah and Daniel, Abraham and Ezekiel, envied us, and longed to be in our place; and we greatly dishonor the Spirit, if we suppose that in this dispensation there is no provision made for the occasional glorious manifestation of God unto the soul of the believer. We are saved by hope, and our greatest blessedness is of course in the future; but the best preparation for this is in the recognition of the sublime privileges now bestowed. Let it not be thought that we honor Christ more by overlooking our present opportunities of knowing his glory, and waiting for his appearing in the clouds of heaven. If we truly love his appearing, we will seek now to sound the utmost depths of the meaning of the promises contained in the fourteenth chapter of the Gospel by John.

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