Produced by Free Elf, Colin Bell, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net 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.