I am not sure that it is best for us, once safe and secure on the Rock of Ages, to ask ourselves too closely what this and that experience may signify. Is it not better to be thinking of the Rock, not of the feet that stand upon it?
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“No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.”
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