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Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne — Bonar Memoir

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Bonar Memoir
letter to Mrs. Thain June 1840
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  1. Nearness to God shrinks worldly scale.

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