...stages: a start, a transit, an arrival. Its start is in desire for God. That is where it all begins. "My soul is athirst for God: yea, even for the Living...shall I come to appear before the presence of God?" Until, and unless, some such "thirst of soul" comes to us, religion must remain a ur.wmu> CATHCDK.VL...

...good, be good;" and let jaded elders smooched with the world's coarse thumb heed the cry of youth: My soul is athirst for God, yea even for the living...shall I come to appear before the presence of God? §2 Sunday in Schools. Sunday, the day of rest and of religion, is the most necessary day of the week...

...XLII Quemadmodum. Like as the hart desireth the water-brooks : so longeth my soul after thee, O God. My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living...shall I come to appear before the presence of God ? My tears have been my meat day and night : while they daily say unto me, Where is now thy God ? Now...

...good, be good"; and let jaded elders smutched with the world's coarse thumb heed the cry of youth: My soul is athirst for God, yea even for the living...shall I come to appear before the presence of\ God? Sunday, the day of rest and of religion, is the most necessary day of the week in boarding schools....

...succeeds better in conveying the spirit of the original. Think of some of the language of Psalm xlii : My soul is athirst for God, yea, even for the living...shall I come to appear before the presence of God ? . . . Why go I thus heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me ? My bones are smitten asunder as with...

...for the water-brooks, * so longs my soul for you, O God. 2. My soul is athirst for God, athirst for the living God; * when shall I come to appear before the presence of God? 3 My tears have been my food day and night, * while all day long they say to me, "Where now is your God?" 4 I pour out my soul...

...word 'dayly' instead of 'constant' was apparently derived from the Book of Common Prayer, which reads: My tears have been my meat day and night: While they daily say unto me, where is now thy God? The King James version agrees with the Book of Common Prayer except for the substitution of the word...

...error; and there he died by the ark of God' (2 Samuel 6:6-7). The Search 3 daily bread Psalm 42:3, 'My tears have been my meat day and night: while they daily say unto me, Where is now thy God?' Herbert's change of 'meat' to 'bread' provides the eucharistic answer to his search, as well as echoing...

...Augustine's audience. Like as the hart desireth the waterbrooks: so longeth my soul after thee, O God. My soul is athirst for God, yea even for the living...shall I come to appear before the presence of God? My tears have been my meat day and night; while they daily say unto me, Where is now thy God? Now when...

...are like this and say: Like as the hart desires the water-brooks: so longs my soul after thee, O God. My soul is athirst for God, yea even for the living...when shall I come to appear before the Presence of God?29 PONDER How long do you think that you can survive without coming to Him who is the living water?...