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The Pursuit of God

"Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning."

HOSEA 6:3

by A. W. Tozer

introduction by Dr. Samuel M. Zwemer

CHRISTIAN PUBLICATIONS, INC. HARRISBURG, PA.

COPYRIGHT MCMXLVIII BY CHRISTIAN PUBLICATIONS, INC.

Printed in United States

Contents

Introduction 5

Preface 7

I Following Hard after God 11

II The Blessedness of Possessing Nothing 21

III Removing the Veil 33

IV Apprehending God 49

V The Universal Presence 61

VI The Speaking Voice 73

VII The Gaze of the Soul 85

VIII Restoring the Creator-creature Relation 99

IX Meekness and Rest 109

X The Sacrament of Living 117

Introduction

Here is a masterly study of the inner life by a heart thirsting after God, eager to grasp at least the outskirts of His ways, the abyss of His love for sinners, and the height of His unapproachable majesty--and it was written by a busy pastor in Chicago!

Who could imagine David writing the twenty-third Psalm on South Halsted Street, or a medieval mystic finding inspiration in a small study on the second floor of a frame house on that vast, flat checker-board of endless streets

Where cross the crowded ways of life Where sound the cries of race and clan, In haunts of wretchedness and need, On shadowed threshold dark with fears, And paths where hide the lures of greed ...

But even as Dr. Frank Mason North, of New York, says in his immortal poem, so Mr. Tozer says in this book:

Above the noise of selfish strife We hear Thy voice, O Son of Man.