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  INCREASING GLORY
  by Mary Wilder Tileston
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Summary: Mary Wilder Tileston's sermon 'Increasing Glory' emphasizes the
importance of recognizing divine goodness and being in communion with
God's presence in all things.

Topics: "Divine Goodness", "Spiritual Growth"
Scripture References: Psalm 19:1, Psalm 92:4, John 4:24, Romans 1:20, 1 Corinthians 2:10

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Mary Wilder Tileston preaches about finding joy and triumph in the works
of God's hands, comparing life to a harp where we learn the melodies
that will be played in eternity. She reflects on how each year softens
the heart and clears the eyes to see the divine goodness in all things,
independent of external circumstances. Tileston emphasizes the
increasing gladness and glory of a right spirit life, highlighting the
divine presence in every aspect of creation as a means of communication
with God's mind.

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For Thou, Lord, hast made me glad through Thy work: I will triumph in
the works of Thy hands. PSALMS 92:4

CONSIDER it

(This outer world we tread on) as a harp,--

A gracious instrument on whose fair strings

We learn those airs we shall be set to play

When mortal hours are ended.

JEAN INGELOW

EVERY year has been to me a softening of the impressible nature, and a
clearing of the eye in all the fields of divine goodness, quite
irrespective of the hard, hot, choking work of the external world and
its attacks. I feel more and more how all right spirit life is a
gladness and a glory increasing; how divine goodness is speaking in all
tones that reach the heart with joy or sorrow, awe or ecstasy,
everywhere and in all things, if we can but hear it; how completely the
spirit within can be in communion with light, independent of external
circumstances; and yet how external circumstances and creation are the
medium through which God speaks. And if it is indeed a speech of God, an
ever present incarnation of the divine mind, then the power of reading
the divine mind can only exist for those who are in accordance with it.

EDWARD THRING

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Source: https://sermonindex.net/speakers/mary-wilder-tileston/increasing-glory/
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